Identify an improvement strategy

Webinar described key data collection methods to support learning as part of a road test. The session touched on considerations for using different methods as part of a road test, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and administrative data. It also included presentations from two grantees on how they have used data to learn about their improvement strategies.

Webinar covered common challenges that occur when road testing and offered strategies for getting ahead of them. The presentation includes grantee responses to an in-session poll question about challenges they've encountered when road testing. 

Tip sheet covers the COM-B framework for understanding human behavior and discusses how COM-B can be a useful tool in your team's efforts to design and implement improvement strategies. It also provides an example of how to use COM-B in practice, detailing a design activity to use with staff to brainstorm facilitators and barriers to change.

Tip sheet covers considerations related to planning, conducting, and analyzing data from focus groups. It also includes a summary of key logistical steps related to planning a focus group, and a notetaking template your team can use to ensure you're capturing key insights, quotes, and context.

Webinar on developing strategies for program improvement. It includes a review of root cause analysis to support strategy development, provides suggested sources of strategy ideas, and explains the importance of developing a rationale to be sure an improvement strategy aligns with desired outcomes.

Webinar covered three key steps for planning a road test: articulating your strategy, developing learning questions, and creating an implementation plan.

Covers the use of the teach-back method in ongoing facilitator training. Teach-backs are a promising improvement strategy when the challenge is related to skills or knowledge. Part of a series of CQI tip sheets focusing on promising grantee practices.

Webinar provided considerations for conducting a road test to learn about and refine improvement strategies and offered thoughts on continued monitoring of strategies. We reviewed road test planning; discussed the purpose of learning cycles and considerations for next steps; and shared about importance of SMART goal monitoring to assess success.

Tip sheet provides guidance on three key steps to take when developing improvement strategies. It includes six one-page tip sheets on different methods for learning about challenges and developing and prioritizing strategies.

Webinar provided suggestions for completing sections D1-D3 of the HMRF CQI Plan template.