You have just been hired as a consultant to the chief executive officer (CEO) of a health care organization. Your duty is to improve the management tools and practices needed to work in teams, build cross-functional teams, and facilitate collaborative decisionmaking.

*You need to identify elements found in an effective health care work group and identify barriers to communication that may cause conflict within a group.

*Suggest some types of communication techniques that can be used to avoid conflicts within a team. You need to address ways to improve communication among departments in an organization to avoid conflict. *

*Finally, identify strategies that may be used to avoid recurring conflicts and ways a leader can prevent conflict within the team in the organization.

*1,200 word paper in which you propose a quality improvement plan to present to the CEO addressing these issues.

*Cite at least four references to validate your proposal. Prepare this Assignment according to the APA guidelines.