Program Outline: A Smarter Approach

MI is a method used for over 50 years to help people change behaviors. Professionals have come to realize how effective this method is and make it an essential part of their tool kit. While MI is intellectually understandable, true success comes from practice, coaching, and ongoing in-house training. Organizations otherwise must rely heavily on external trainers to provide the periodic training of staff that would otherwise be conducted efficiently in-house. The unintended consequence is that valuable resources and investments often go to waste. To avoid over-reliance on external trainers, serious organizations must provide ongoing coaching and support by establishing systems to ensure staff retain MI skills training they received.

We Will Show You The 3 Easy Steps

Forward-thinking organizations recognize the importance of instituting processes and systems. The right systems are sustainable and even replicable for enhancing skills acquisition, professional development, and retention of good people. They also help to reduce constant dependence on external trainers and programs.

At "MI Skills Days" we teach the proven 3-Step Success System. It is designed to help organizations utilize their internal resources to institute durable in-house MI skills capacity by adapting what they are already doing - NOT starting from scratch!

Here Are The Steps & How You Benefit

1. Step-1: Train All Staff the Method. Bring together frontline and direct services teams, their supervisors, and in-house trainers for MI fundamentals training.
2. Step-2: Train Supervisors to Coach the Method. Equip supervisors and in-house trainers on how to use the method to manage their teams and coach the method.
3. Step-3: Train In-House Trainers to Teach the Method. Provide introductory basics of how to teach MI skills to existing staff and introduce new hires to the method.
   

This streamlined approach ensures an agency can maintain and grow MI capacity internally. Other benefits accrue as well;

• Skill Acquisition: Staff acquire practical MI skills that can be immediately applied to their current roles.
• Reduced Dependency: Organizations rely less on external trainers by utilizing internal resources for MI training.
• Replicable Model: Our 3-Step System ensures a consistent and sustainable approach to skill development.
• Comprehensive Approach: Confidence from a program squarely focused on nuts and bolts for proven skills building and implementation science.

Join us and let’s enhance your team’s capacity together! 🌟

How "MI Skills Days" Is Organized

• Step-1 (August 6): Train the entire staff on MI fundamentals.
• Step-2 (August 20): Train Supervisors and In-house agency trainers together on staff coaching skills.
• Step-3 (August 27): Introduce essential MI trainer skills to In-house agency trainers to put them in a position to begin providing meaningful ongoing training.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

• Understand MI Fundamentals: Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of MI principles and techniques.
• Develop In-House Training Skills: Supervisors and in-house agency trainers will learn how to coach staff in applying MI skills.
• Establish Sustainable MI Systems: In-house agency trainers will be equipped to provide ongoing training and coaching for both existing and new employees.
• Skill Acquisition: Staff will acquire MI skills that can be adapted to their current roles without starting from scratch.
• Reduced Dependency: The organization will reduce its reliance on external trainers by utilizing internal resources for MI training.
• Replicable Training Model: The organization will have a replicable 3-Step System for continuous skill development and retention.

These objectives and outcomes align with our 3-Step Success System approach and are focused on initial learning, practice, coaching, and follow-up training to create a sustainable in-house MI skills development system.

What We Just Shared

"MI Skills Days" is an efficient and affordable venue any agency and its staff may attend to begin instituting the 3-Step System. Program dates are spaced out over several weeks for your scheduling convenience and you can elect to attend 1, 2, or all 3 steps of the system at once. 

Take this opportunity to get the entire team on the same page! Save by taking advantage of our group rates and membership plans.

Why Attend?

Human, social, or justice services professionals come here to learn ways they can adapt what they are currently - rather than start from scratch.

Say goodbye to disjointed training initiatives that are truly a waste of time and investment.

Make the shift to a coherent and efficient approach that ensures all stakeholders (staff, clients and their families, and relevant community providers) participate. 

• Join us for 1, 2, or all 3 days of live online sessions.
• Benefit from expert coaching that provides clarity and guidance.
• Cap off your experience with optional certification.

Team Attendance Matters: Success is a team sport! Learn together, collaborate, and grow as a unit.

Team attendance highly encouraged! Get the entire team on the same page! Take advantage of Group rates and SAVE BIG! Register 4 for the price of 3!