Unlocking Success: How to Cultivate a PAC-Inspired Culture of Care in Your Community
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Are you involved in senior healthcare leadership or dementia care management?
If yes, are you incorporating Positive Approach to Care (PAC) products and training into your organization's training regimen?
While these resources are valuable, have you noticed a lack of lasting changes in your team's habits?
In this article, we delve into the reasons behind this phenomenon and present a solution for maximizing the impact of Teepa Snow's Positive Approach to Care (PAC) techniques in your community.
1. Active Learning for Lasting Change
Unfortunately, simply watching a video is not enough to create lasting behavior change.
Why? Because watching a video is passive learning.
While your staff may take in information in the moment, without hands-on, active learning elements, little data will be retained.
Think about it - would you be able to repeat a hands-on skill after watching a video once?
Or to ask this differently, would you let a plumber that has watched a couple of videos do your bathroom renovation?
Chances are, you'd be looking for someone else with more hands-on training or accreditation and positive reviews.
2. PAC Certified Professionals: A Step in the Right Direction
Now, maybe you're thinking: Yes, my staff has seen Teepa's videos, but we also have Positive Approach to Care (PAC) Certified Independent Professionals on our team.
If that's the case – kudos to you! Clearly, you're a forward-thinking organization. You've already demonstrated that you truly care about the well-being of your residents and staff, and that you're ready for a change.
Now, and be truly honest here – how are things going with implementing PAC techniques in your organization?
How are you supporting the PAC Certified Independent Professionals in your organization to help them implement a more compassionate culture of care?
Is your entire upper management on board?
And, most importantly, has your upper management participated in the training?
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3. The Role of Upper Management in Success
Why should our upper management attend PAC trainings? They aren't hands-on care staff.
Here's the problem:
If upper management is not familiar with PAC techniques and doesn't use them in their interactions, how can they lead by example?
While it is true that having a Director of Operations certified as an Engagement Leader may not be the most relevant use of their time and skill, it is also true that without your organization's leadership understanding the theory and logistics behind the Snow Approach, cultivating the environment for PAC techniques to grow and thrive is going to be an uphill battle
Teepa and her Positive Approach to Care Team have observed repeatedly that if upper management is not involved, implementing PAC techniques in an organization will not only be much harder, but also run a significantly higher risk of failing.
If long-term adoption is what you're looking for, it truly is all hands-on deck. And like a ship, different people on-board serve different functions, and require different skills to keep that ship afloat and on-course.
4. Skyrocketing Your Chances of Success
Do you like being efficient with your time and resources?
Do you like avoiding issues from the start, so your team can reach its goals at a faster pace?
Do you have an influence over how your organization navigates its day-to-day operations or envisions its future?
If yes, then Teepa's new course Positive Approach to Leadership is something you won't want to miss.
Teepa and her team have distilled everything they've learned while implementing PAC techniques within hundreds of organizations into one two-day class, so you don't have to make the same costly mistakes.
In this course, you will
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Conclusion
To ensure the longevity and success of Teepa Snow's Positive Approach to Care techniques in your community, active implementation of relevant resources across all levels of the organization is key. By addressing the involvement of upper management and offering specialized training through the Positive Approach to Leadership course, organizations can pave the way for lasting improvements in the well-being of both residents and staff.