When was the last time your supervisor dropped by and told you what an excellent job you were doing? And when was the last time you did the same for your subordinate? If you’re like most employees, we’re willing to bet it’s been a while. But feedback is an essential element of any professional development […]
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Making the case for community health workers is an uphill battle — but it is always worth the effort.
You’ve seen the data: a University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report is one of many that show how the CHW model can reduce admissions and lead to better health outcomes for hospitalized patients and outpatient settings.
Unfortunately, too many organizations still find it difficult to make the business case for hiring, using and training community health workers. They offer excuses about the expense, or they vastly underuse their existing CHWs.
Convincing decision-makers to deploy groups of frontline health workers may not be easy, but hopefully this round-up of return on investment studies will put you a small step forward. It’s a collection of some of the best ROI studies I’ve seen on why to hire and educate people working in the CHW role.
Enjoy!
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Think back to your first day of school. Freshly pressed shirt, new backpack, sharpened pencils, and a lunchbox in hand. Starting a new learning path is not quite the same as it was when we were kids. But still, the right choice of a learning management system can make your professional development program exciting —
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Training assessments are the key to understanding. Whether you work in healthcare, public health, schools, businesses, or other organizations, they’re the best way to evaluate learner progress. They can help you and your facilitators identify areas where people need extra support in their training—and where your efforts are succeeding Feedback is one of the best
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Let’s say you’re about to launch a local screening service. There was a similar program years ago that no one attended for some reason. You’re nervous about the new service failing, but you’re not sure how to prevent that. After all, you’re certain that this community needs this screening service. What would you do? The
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When you’re thinking about creating a course, you need to think about who your target audience is. Despite being in the US, you may have a diverse staff who would benefit from you offering an online training program in multiple languages. This is especially the case when the course content includes topics like health literacy
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First impressions count—even in a remote training project. Yet, many people in charge of running remote training projects skip this important factor. They think: “Our learners are required to do this training, so they’ll do it no matter what.” Or: “We all put so much work into this eLearning project that everyone else is going
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Unspecific goal-setting can prevent you from knowing if your e-learning project is a success. These two simple questions help create measurable, actionable and realistic e-learning goals.
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Most administrators think that online training is the easy solution to training workers who live and work in remote rural locations. These tips will help your distance learning program a bigger success.
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Fostering engagement in your remote training program is essential. If you think your program is working well, it’s still a great time to look closely at how engaged your team is with what they’re learning. There’s always room for improvement! Wondering how to start developing a remote training program? Start with Blended Learning Fundamentals, An
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