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To ensure you make the most of your performance management system, it is helpful to assess its performance. This "meta perspective" on performance management enables you to capture visually the uptake of each component of performance management, and the degree to which it is supporting your organization's...

How to Focus Your Training and Professional Development Efforts to Improve the Skills of Your Public Health Organization: White Paper

April 10, 2012

This white paper reports on a series of workshops on focusing limited training and professional development resources to build competence within the public health workforce. Using a quality improvement tool, the prioritization matrix, workshop participants determined the relative importance of the...

Developing Solutions to the Challenges Public Health Organizations Face in 2011

January 4, 2011

Ron Bialek and John W. (Jack) Moran of PHF worked with Jennifer McKeever of the National Network of Public Health Institutes to present "Developing Solutions to the Challenges Public Health Organizations Face in 2011: Using Tree Diagrams and Prioritization Matrix of the Advanced Tools of QI" at the...

Thirty Pitfalls of Strategic and Operational Planning and How to Overcome Them

March 8, 2010

This white paper by John W. (Jack) Moran, Senior Quality Advisor to PHF, introduces in a very relatable way the many ways in which organizational planning can be derailed, postponed, or sabotaged. Learn how strategic and operational planning can be affected negatively in order to be aware of what to...

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