IPEC Domain/Competency 

Communication

Sub-Competencies

C1 Communicate one's roles and responsibilities clearly.

C2 Use communication tools, techniques, and technologies to enhance team function, well-being, and outcomes.

C4 Promote common understanding of shared goals.

C7 Examine one's position, power, role, unique experience, expertise, and culture towards improving communication and managing conflicts.

Goals and objectives

Develop team cohesion; promote openness and role clarification.

Materials

• None

Activity description

Engage participants in reflection using prompts the following prompts:

Individual level:

• What kind of communicators do we view ourselves and each other to be?
• What is each member’s communicator self-image?
• What are the communicative strengths of each team member?

Professional level:

• What kind of profession-specific communication ideals do we identify with?
• What is seen as competent communication in each member’s profession?
• Are specific skills highlighted?
• How do profession- specific cultures influence our ideas about effective and appropriate communication and about how typical team roles should be claimed or assigned?

Group level:

• What kind of effective and appropriate communicative practices do we already have?
• What are we good at as a team?
• In what ways do our meanings for competent communication differ?
• How could individual and profession-specific differences be utilized in our team?
• Do we identify profession-specific ways of speaking that could hinder the effectiveness and appropriateness of our communication in this team?

Source

Horila, T. (2025). Shared Communication Competence: Moving Beyond the Individual in Interprofessional Communication. In: Fox, S., McAllum, K., Mikkola, L. (Eds) Interprofessional Communication in Health and Social Care. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70106-1_10 (p.176)

Suggested Citation: CHBS IPE and IDE Council. (2026). Reflection on Team Communication. CHBS IPE & IDE Instructional Toolkit. James Madison University.