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  • Tip sheet covers considerations for developing learning questions to frame a road test and how to use them to reflect on road test results after the road test.

  • Webinar delves into the fourth discipline of the Four Disciplines of Execution (4DX) framework (discussed in the October and December office hours), which is to establish a cadence of accountability. The session covered WIG sessions as a tool for keeping teams focused on key priorities. It covered recommended agenda items and tips for facilitating effective WIG sessions.

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

  • Offers tips on the use of focus groups to gather detailed, action-oriented feedback from clients. Part of a series of CQI tip sheets focusing on promising grantee practices. 

  • Webinar provided guidance and examples for how to use nFORM to support program monitoring and CQI. Featured key reports and tools in nFORM that support using and learning from programmatic data.

  • 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.