Assessing Your Performance Management System
October 13, 2017
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...
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Change Management Questionnaire Checklist
April 14, 2017
The Change Management Questionnaire Checklist supports efforts to make a substantive change to an entrenched culture. By answering a set of guiding questions, change leaders can build and sustain a conducive change environment. Developed by Public Health Foundation (PHF) Senior Quality Advisor Jack...
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PESTLE Chart
June 10, 2016
The PESTLE Chart can be used to help a strategic planning team understand an organization’s current operating state. This tool provides a framework for teams to scan the external environment for factors that could impact strategy development. Developed by Public Health Foundation (PHF)...
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Ten Positive Preparatory Steps to Enable a Population Health Coalition to Prosper (White Paper)
March 24, 2016
Engaging the community to tackle a challenging health issue necessitates a coalition of community members in order to make a measurable collective impact on health status.
These community population health coalitions do not just “happen” – rather they are the result of an individual or organization...
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Strategy Conceptualization Tree
March 15, 2016
The Strategy Conceptualization Tree helps a quality improvement team translate broadly-stated needs, such as “Remove Health Inequities,” “Improve Customer Satisfaction,” and “Lower Healthcare Costs” into specific, actionable, achievable, and measureable requirements. Developed by Public Health Foundation...
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Performance Improvement Learning Series Catalog
September 1, 2015
The Performance Improvement Learning Series Catalog provides a listing of technical assistance and training services delivered by PHF's experts. The catalog is a sample of offerings and provides public health agencies and organizations with a menu of programs, tools, and techniques to choose from when...
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The Public Health Improvement Resource Center
April 15, 2015
The Public Health Improvement Resource Center is an online database is managed by the Public Health Foundation (PHF), and offers resources developed by colleagues and partners throughout the field to help build and improve public health systems. The resources support the initiation and continuation...
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Planning Before You Communicate Tool
February 13, 2014
Health departments must have good, consistent, clear, crisp communications both internally and externally. A comprehensive and strategic communications plan for the department sets the foundation for staff to develop and execute communications effectively: to reach the target audience in the right...
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