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Heidi West is a medical content writer with years of experience covering healthcare and technology subject matter for the healthcare and medical industry. She has written extensively on medical topics such as diabetes, COVID-19 developments, wound care, telemedicine and telehealth, EMR, AI, developments in nursing, long-term care, and hospice care. She resides in the Indianapolis area with her family.

Heidi West

There are many options for nurses and doctors to ease their burnout without leaving medicine behind.

Career Shift Rather Than Change: Avoiding Burnout Among Nurses and Physicians

Teams are the foundation of every successful organization. Effective teams can drive innovation, productivity, and efficiency. Dysfunctional teams, however, are far less productive and often lead to conflict. Team performance has a direct impact on business outcomes and the bottom line. Unfortunately, many organizations struggle to build effective teams, and the recent shift to a more hybrid, remote workforce has created a new set of challenges as teams have grown more dispersed, digital, and dynamic.
Understanding the neuroscience of teams can help organizations overcome the challenges of increasing team performance, building more effective teams, and improving team performance. This webinar will explore the dynamics of effective teams from a social neuroscience perspective with a focus on motivation, cooperation, and decision making.
This webinar features three of the leading researchers in social psychology participating in a live panel discussion on the neuroscience of effective teams.
During this event, you will learn how:

Teams shape feelings, beliefs, and behaviors
In-groups and out-groups affect team dynamics
Implicit biases affect team performance
To identify and manage toxic team members
To ask for help and drive collaboration
To build better, more effective teams   


The Neuroscience of Effective Teams

As spooky season is officially upon us, it’s time to take a closer look at outdated practices lurking in the shadowy corners of instructional design and training. Some of these methods have become more haunting than helpful. Which specters shou

Let’s Lay to Rest These ID and Training Practices

Virtually all organizations use e-learning, and they’re using more of it than ever before. Five years ago, the median organization delivered between 1 and 20 percent of its learning portfolio as e-learning. According to the 2020 report from ATD Research entitled E-Learning: The Evolving Landscape, that number is between 21 and 40 percent today, and it is expected to rise to between 41 and 60 percent in the next five years.
Given e-learning’s rise, organizations have strong ways to implement best practices. This webcast will examine findings from E-Learning: The Evolving Landscape, which identifies e-learning practices associated with being a top-performing organization. Topics covered will include e-learning’s effectiveness by content area, e-learning’s use in blended learning programs, accessibility (for persons with disabilities) in e-learning, and elements organizations include in e-learning (such as interactive video and gamification). It will also discuss the most important skills and top skills gaps among professionals who design e-learning and top barriers to effective e-learning.
 

E-Learning Research: Highlights and Best Practices

Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Heidi Kirby, PhD, is a customer education manager, co-founder of Useful Stuff (getusefulstuff.com), and host of the BLOC (Building Learning and Organizational Culture) podcast for L&D professionals. She got her start as a college English professor but has since worked as an instructional designer for NASA and an L&D leader in the tech industry. She also teaches graduate-level podcasting. She is passionate about helping aspiring and L&D professionals be their best and helping L&D teams become more inclusive and efficient.

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