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Preceptorship is both an opportunity and a professional challenge that requires a broad range of talents and skills to survive. Precepting demands time, caring and enthusiasm and is typically a role that is added to an already full load of responsibilities. This session focuses on practical approaches to precepting and on the role of experienced health professionals in enhancing the skills of new colleagues. Whether you are an experienced or novice preceptor, you will come away with assessment and evaluation tools, and creative techniques to add to your professional skill set. Conference methods include lecture, discussion, interactive participation and small group work.

At the completion of the program, the participants will we able to:

• Describe characteristics of a good preceptor versus a not-so-good preceptor and choose the kind of preceptor you want to be.
• Identify eight ways in which adults process and remember information and eight creative ways to reinforce learning.
• Identify practical tools and strategies for assessing and documenting performance, providing and receiving constructive feedback, and evaluating success.
• Discuss approaches for problem solving and handling challenging situations.

Learn quick ways to teach a variety of people critical information. This session offers tools that you can use with those at either end of the literacy scale. Bring your biggest teaching challenges and gain an idea you can use to make your teaching most effective.

This class includes straightforward advice with a few fun creative approaches, which makes learning more enjoyable and even entertaining.  Learn quick ways to teach a variety of people critical information, despite their age, style and need differences. Bring your biggest teaching challenges and gain an idea you can use to make your teaching most effective.

At the completion of the program, the participants will we able to:

• Discuss the barriers to effective patient and family education.
• Analyze the differences in generational expectations and needs.
• Compare and contrast the three critical components when teaching patients and/or families.
• Examine new approaches to teaching content
• Discover resources for future use and implementation.
• Assess the literacy level of materials and learners.

This session calls to mind what it means to be a hero in today’s world. Discover the hero that shines through your heart of and how to connect with others in this positive and important way. Leave this session energized and ready to exhibit and show appreciation. Recognize how each of us acts as a hero daily.

At the completion of the program, the participants will we able to:

• Assess the attributes you share with heroes.
• Learn to create human connections through empathy and trust.
• Utilize your powers to appreciate and validate those around you with HEART.
• Discuss the symptoms of burnout and how to lead throughout the change process.

It is important for professional people to use expert communication skills, and creativity to maximize impact and potential on the job each day. The ROSE process allows you to become a creative thinker, even amidst naysayers. Travel along with the presenter, on your own personal journey to creativity, and depart energized, ready to innovate, and wearing your own rose colored glasses.

At the completion of the program, the participants will we able to:

• Examine how communication skills are uniquely individual and require planning, interpretation, and validation.
• Discuss the 9 factors that affect accuracy of perception
• Examine ways to become a creative thinker.