Leadership and interprofessional team management — branching viva

Opening (candidate)

My first job is to take the role of team leader out loud, before anything else. I would declare "I am taking the role of team leader", stand back far enough to see the whole bed space, and allocate roles by name and task — airway, compressions, drugs, scribe. I would use closed-loop communication for every dose, build a shared mental model in a structured pause each minute, and flatten the authority gradient so the most junior voice can stop a preventable error. After the event I would debrief. Beyond this single arrest, my job as a consultant is to build a team that performs like this even when I am not standing in it — through role clarity, psychological safety, TeamSTEPPS tools, structured I-PASS handover, and simulation-based crew resource management training with reinforcement. ^{[4] [11] [14]}