Trainings by competency
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8.05: Promotes team and organizational learning.
List of Domains | Domain 8 | Previous Competency | Next Competency
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Courses
Managing and Motivating Effective Public Health Performance 
| Format | Web-based Course |
| Cost | 0 |
| Duration | approximately 6 hours |
| Description | This course is designed to provide knowledge of management and leadership. These two components of administration are important to the task of motivation. The understanding of the relationship among the topics will enable managers to effectively coordinate individual actions toward the accomplishment of organizational goals. |
| Competencies | 7.07 7.05 8.05 8.08 |
| TRAIN | n/a |
Leadership, Strategic Planning and Systems Approaches
| Format | Web-based Course |
| Cost | free |
| Duration | 7-10 hours |
| Description | This course encourages participants to think strategically about the types of decisions made in public health organizations, and provides students with strategic analysis and planning skills. This course instructs participants on how to conduct a one and a half day Focused Strategic Thinking Retreat. |
| Competencies | 3.04 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.05 |
| TRAIN | n/a |
Excellence in PH Practice
| Format | Web-based Course |
| Cost | free |
| Duration | 1 hour per module |
| Description | This program consists of 12 1-hour modules covering different aspects of the Essential Public Health Services. |
| Competencies | 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.05 8.05 8.06 |
| TRAIN | n/a |
Human Resources
| Format | Web-based Course |
| Cost | Free |
| Duration | 2 hours |
| Description | This course is part of a series of programs intended for public health administrators, and nurse administrators, who are relatively new in their positions (3 years or less), and who seek to enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to succeed. The course discusses the major duties and responsibilities of Human Resources, the several Human Resources issues, & the major legal issues facing employers in the workplace. There are seven video clips in this course: Job Descriptions; Recruitment, Selection, & Orientation; Performance Appraisals; Compensation; Health, Safety, & Security; Corrective Actions; and Policy Manual and Unions. |
| Competencies | 2.03 7.07 8.03 8.05 8.06 8.08 |
| TRAIN | n/a |
Overall Aspects of Managing an Agency
| Format | Web-based Course |
| Cost | Free |
| Duration | 1.5 hours |
| Description | This course is part of a series of programs intended for public health administrators, and nurse administrators, who are relatively new in their positions (3 years or less), and who seek to enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to succeed. The course discusses the roles and issues that occur in the management of a local public health agency, how to balance public health functions within a multi-focused agency, the identification of training needs within an agency and how to address these needs, & environmental health enforcement issues that may occur when contracting with local boards of health. There are four video clips in this course: Roles of a Public Health Administrator; Staff Training; Dealing with Burnout; and Other Aspects of Managing a Public Health Agency. This is the introductory course in the New Public Health Administrators Series. |
| Competencies | 2.01 5.01 5.08 7.07 8.03 8.05 |
| TRAIN | n/a |
Coaching to Win: Managing for Performance
| Format | Web-based Course |
| Cost | Free |
| Duration | 1 hour |
| Description | Every employee deserves the opportunity to work at his or her potential and also, through experience, grow and develop their expertise. Achieving career development requires the careful supervising of the manager - coach. In this self-directed education module you will learn the specific skills necessary to be an effective COACH. You will follow a step-by-step process that will ensure you, your employee, your team, and ultimately your organization WINS! |
| Competencies | 4.05 7.07 8.01 8.02 8.05 8.06 |
| TRAIN | n/a |
Healthy Places Leading to Healthy People: Community Engagement Improves Health for All
| Format | Webstream |
| Cost | Free |
| Duration | 1 hour |
| Description | This program will illustrate how the PACE-EH community engagement tool has helped communities clearly identify health, social and environmental problems driven by place-related elements within the community environment. It will highlight how this process has helped to focus community efforts and build coalitions for change across agencies and community groups for the overall public health and well-being of all citizens in a community. |
| Competencies | 5.05 5.06 5.07 8.04 8.05 |
| TRAIN | n/a |
Stand Up and Be Counted: Improving Your Community's Health Through Performance Standards
| Format | Webstream |
| Cost | Free |
| Duration | 1 hour |
| Description | A performance measurement system will provide information to advocate for public health at state and local levels, shape policy decisions, support accountability, improve quality, and target resources to ultimately improve the health of the public. After all, what gets measured gets done. Join us as we discuss the concepts of the National Public Health Performance Standards Program and the goal that we all strive for, healthy people in healthy communities. |
| Competencies | 6.01 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 |
| TRAIN | n/a |
Becoming a Systems Thinker
| Format | Web-based Course |
| Cost | $45 |
| Duration | 1.5 hours |
| Description | As healthcare managers and leaders continue to develop sophistication in managing complex situations, the systems model is useful to assist nurse managers in addressing day to day pressures which are steeped in uncertainty. Systems thinking is both a powerful problem solving tool and a powerful language to assist healthcare mangers and leaders in making better decisions, using resources more effectively and achieving organizational goals. At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to: (1) describe the basic elements of the systems model; (2) discuss systems thinking as a tool to manage the challenges in the healthcare environment; (3) examine the seven-step process for using systems thinking; and (4) apply the principles of systems thinking to strategic planning. |
| Competencies | 8.03 8.05 8.07 8.08 |
| TRAIN | n/a |
Coaching to Win: Managing for Performance
| Format | Web-based Course |
| Cost | Free |
| Duration | 1.5 to 2 hours |
| Description | You will learn specific skills necessary to be an effective coach in this self-directed course. Every employee deserves the opportunity to work at his or her potential and also, through experience, grow and develop their expertise. Achieving career development requires the careful supervising of the manager/coach. You will follow a step-by-step process that will ensure you, your employee, your team, and ultimately your organization succeeds. Note that the link will take you to the main AHEConnect homepage -- click the "Courses" link to search for this specific course. |
| Competencies | 7.07 8.01 8.02 8.05 |
| TRAIN | n/a |
Public Health Ethics
| Format | Web-based Course |
| Cost | Free |
| Duration | 2 to 3 hours |
| Description | Ethics in medicine has been studied longer and is more developed than ethics in public health. But principles of medical ethics do not provide the needed direction for common ethical situations in public health. Using a case study of a water fluoridation debate in a California county, this module presents: the relationship between theoretical and practical ethics; the application of medical ethics to the fluoridation debate; and then the application of public health ethics to the fluoridation debate. |
| Competencies | 7.07 8.01 8.05 |
| TRAIN | n/a |