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Annotation: Sections 1 & 2: Do you want to join or become more involved in a committee or council, but are not sure where to begin or which group would be a good fit for you? Do you wonder what the different functions are of decision-making groups and what the members' roles are within these groups? Serving on Groups is a nationally recognized leadership tool that empowers parents to actively and fully participate in decision-making groups. Section 3: The most effective groups use processes to guide their work, and a clear process sets the direction toward the group's goals. So many times, we are on committees or in meetings but don't know what is supposed to happen or how to fully participate. Sections 4 & 5: Are you a member of a committee or council that needs to be more efficient? What makes a committee or council effective? How can group dynamics improve? Section 6: So many times, we are on committees or in meetings but don't know what the process is or how to fully participate, especially when it comes to data. This introductory webinar on data is based on the Serving on Groups that Make Decisions Guidebook resource. The highlight of the revised Guidebook is a section entitled Understanding Data as Information. We live in a world with more available data than ever before. In education, using data is a powerful tool to determine if schools’ efforts are working and if students are meeting their goals. This section provides eight steps to assist you and other group members in making well-informed data-based decisions to improve the experiences of children. It also contains numerous resources for you to access and explore relevant data for your family and community. Sections 7 & 8: Do you want to be more involved in a decision-making group but are not sure where to begin? Are you tired of feeling like the token representative instead of an active member of a decision-making group?

Annotation: In this episode, presenters tackle the topic of redefining rest and productivity with Marissa McKool, Career and Life Coach. Marissa shares her personal wake up call on the brink of burnout, explores why we are sometimes hesitant to take time off, discusses how supervisors and managers can be more supportive of staff, the intersection of oppressive systems and thoughts on rest, and shares ideas and tips for reshaping our mindset throughout the conversation.

Learning Objectives: • Inspire and guide actions that will improve the systems that impact maternal and child health populations. • Lift up stories and people from the MCH field by centering the voices of the public health workforce, people and communities most impacted by inequities, and individuals and families with lived experiences.

Annotation: This session is part of a three-webinar series offered by the SOC Leadership Learning Community on unique aspects for leadership in this challenging time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since most leaders are now functioning in virtual environments, the presenter discusses considerations and specific strategies for achieving objectives using remote teams. The topics covered include assuring effective communication, achieving alignment on strategies assuring attention towards focused action maintaining clarity, and giving people hope, among others. Participants leave with information about what leaders should pay attention and what they should do when their teams are not on site and in-person interaction is not possible.

Annotation: This archived webinar focuses on the newly developed AHD partnership between the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Public Health and the Chicago Department of Public Health. During this meeting, Dr. Torres discussed a variety of aspects of this partnership, including the process of establishing the partnership, challenges and lessons learned, and the future vision for the partnership, and shared tips for partnership development. This one hour webinar was originally presented as the May 2017 AHD Learning Community meeting. Discussion among the presenters and participants that occurred during the live version of the webinar is captured. Watch the archived webinar or download the presentation slides to learn more. Additional details about this AHD partnership are also highlighted in the PHF Pulse blog post, New Partnership in Chicago Offers Latest Example of Academic Health Department Development.

Special Instructions: Registration required before accessing this course.

Annotation: Success of an organization/department depends on the employees who work there. The morale among staff must be high to have high performing staff. Sometimes when organizational changes occur, the morale can go down. For this webinar, Kris Risley, Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago provided tips and tricks to keep staff morale high by using appreciative inquiry and positive questions to bring out the best of the organization/department/team. Dr. Risley also discussed the importance of emotional intelligence and the impact you have on your organization/department.

Annotation: Interprofessional collaborative practice is key to safe, high quality, accessible, patient-centered care. This course aims to introduce health professions learners to the fundamental principles and skills for effective interprofessional collaborative practice. This course is comprised of five modules consisting of 6-10 segments each. The five modules are available to be used consecutively or as stand-alone content. Module 1: What’s it all about? Introducing core interprofessional education concepts. (7 videos) Module 2: Who is on my team? Understanding the roles and abilities of different health professions. (6 videos) Module 3: How will our work get done? Understanding task distribution, accountability, and communication. (8 videos) Module 4: How do we tackle challenges? Conflict management and negotiation. (9 videos) Module 5: How can we work together? Leadership and membership in teams. (10 videos)

Learning Objectives: • Explore the benefits of interprofessional collaboration for patients and providers. • Discuss some of the forces that are moving healthcare towards greater interprofessional collaboration. • Describe the roles and scope of practice for different healthcare professionals Introduce key skills to enhance communication, collaboration and conflict management. • Explore team leadership and membership.

Annotation: This online course offers techniques, tools, and strategies to assist health care professionals in developing and optimizing team knowledge and performance in an office-based care setting. The course is intended for practice facilitators—individuals who play a key role in leading and assisting practices with their quality improvement and practice transformation efforts. Topics include team structure, leading teams and situation monitoring, mutual support, coaching and teaching, change management, measurement, and implementation planning. The fundamentals modules are grouped into Lessons. Each of the fundamentals lessons comes with an agenda and a debrief worksheet that can be used to lead a discussion with staff. TeamSTEPPS for Office-Based Care uses a variety of videos as examples in both the fundamentals and implementation portion.. A suite of evaluation materials is also available to measure the success of the TeamSTEPPS for Office-Based Care program in your institution.

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Annotation: Management expert Gary Hamel notes that, “modern organizations are motivationally crippled because they coerce grudging compliance instead of inspiring passion and performance”. Most of today’s government employees are knowledge workers, who come with particular ways of being motivated and managed. How do managers connect with their team in a way that motivates and inspires them? How do leaders know what to invest in to motivate their employees? The course comprises an overview and introduction, 6 lessons, 2 knowledge checks, and a post-course survey.

Learning Objectives: • Learn six actions for leading engagement. • Recognize employees and colleagues across four different levels of engagement. • Estimate the financial impact of disengagement. • Understand what tools to invest in to increase engagement.

Continuing Education: GovLoop is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors.

Annotation: This training spotlight, developed by the MCH Navigator, provides links to selected trainings and related tools on the topics of systems integration, integrated services, and systems development. It addresses a priority focus of the National MCH Workforce Development Center. At the heart of systems integration lies systems thinking, a discipline for seeing wholes, interrelationships and patterns of change. By focusing on the interrelationships among key elements within a system, and the influence of these interrelationships on the system’s behavior over time, leaders implementing improvements can pursue several goals at once, simultaneously reducing the potential for unintended consequences by predicting upstream and downstream influences and effects. By coordinating efforts across systems of care, programs to improve maternal and child health (MCH) can increase coverage and reduce barriers to the use of services and supports. Linking medical and non-medical sectors (to encompass education, housing, social services, mental health, and early childhood systems) can help minimize risk factors and promote health and wellness across the life course.

Annotation: This multimedia training provides a dynamic look at fundamental aspects of public health from unique points of view of members of the workforce and of community members as well. Learners will gain a grounded understanding of the Three Core Public Health Functions and the Ten Essential Public Health Services.

Learning Objectives: 1. Define public health. 2. List the social determinants of health. 3. Recognize the three Public Health Core Functions. 4. Identify ways each of the Essential Public Health Services works to improve health equity. 5. Identify the role your work plays in public health.