Conflict Resolution is an important role of the Leader. Highly productive teams are cohesive. They blend ideas, seek solutions and work together to improve patient outcomes.

The circulating nurse is likely thinking she has fifteen minutes of charting to do in an eight minute case, while the scrub tech is trying insure that not one of the nineteen very small sutures gets closed up inside the patient. The nurse anesthetist is debating how he is going to get the patient deep enough NOT to move, yet shallow enough to wake up within the next nine and a half minutes because the room must be turned over, and the surgeon is screaming, "All I'm asking for is eight minutes of y'all s attention... eight minutes is all I need please!" Furthermore, “As operations become more complex and require more technology, the mental and physical demand on surgeons and their teams will likely increase” (Yu, et al. 2016).

Creating a collaborative work environment means understanding that the members of the interdisciplinary team will commonly have different views on: scope of time, resources, sense of urgency, patient load, care delivery models and task vs objective work approach (Finkelman, 2016).