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Improvement Coach Professional Development Program: Asia-Pacific

Further develop your improvement knowledge and skills in order to coach and facilitate improvement teams, with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI's) Improvement Coach Professional Development Program.

This interactive, experiential program is designed to advance your improvement capability and deepen your skills in the art of coaching and facilitating improvement teams in support of achieving their goals.

With a unique focus on how to do improvement work with or via others, this program specifically explores the human side of change and the experiences many face when doing improvement work in the workplace.

Practice during the virtual workshops, combined with the application of your learning with your team back home creates a dynamic learning opportunity.

​OBJECTIVES 

In order to make the most of this practical professional development program, you must identify a team with an improvement project. This team must be willing to allow you to apply your learning from the program and act as a coach.

This program is designed to help you:

  • Describe the science of improvement and use the Model for Improvement as a roadmap for improvement projects.
  • Employ skills to coach improvement teams on how to develop, test, and implement changes including identifying high-leverage change ideas and testing them using PDSA cycles.
  • Explain how to use data for improvement, including how to use and interpret run charts and other key quality improvement tools.
  • Develop skills in team facilitation, communication, decision making, and understanding team culture
  • Apply just-in-time teaching of improvement skills to team members in order to advance the team’s work
  • Plan how you will continue coaching your team and prepare yourself to coach subsequent teams.
  • Identify concepts of implementation, sustainability, spread, and scale-up.

​WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This program is ideal for people who support improvement teams on a weekly basis (e.g., 25-50% of  their time as an improvement coach). 

In order to stay at pace with the programme, participants are also encouraged to have a foundation in quality improvement (QI) concepts, methods, and tools (see recommendations in the 'Recommended Prerequisites' section below).

QI team members or leaders who are interested in deepening their knowledge in QI and coaching others would be a great fit. Consider registering for this program if you are looking to:

  • Coach staff on how to apply improvement concepts, methods, and tools to daily work
  • Support teams in identifying a problem and scoping an improvement project 
  • Help develop measures, data collection plans, and analyse data for a project
  • Understand the working and communication styles within a team in order to be more effective
  • Run effective meetings

Recommended Prerequisites

  • Experience: previous experience participating on an improvement team
  • Knowledge: prior improvement knowledge required:
    • IHI Open School QI courses, Science of Improvement course, Improvement Science in Action course

or

    • An equivalent level of learning from other organizations (e.g., ASQ, NQF, or a university-based QI program)
  • Application: An improvement team identified. This team will be where you will apply your learning as the Improvement Coach.