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Staff Training and Development for Organizational Change
An Interview with Nancy Brooks-Lane

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Assisting a person in being accountable for their outcomes

* Appropriate skills.
* Clear expectations.
* Individualized process.

Transcript

Interviewer: You spoke a minute ago as far as holding people accountable for their outcomes. Let's say you had someone that was not doing well with their outcomes. How do you go about assisting that particular person?

Nancy Brooks-Lane: Well of course in that situation, it would not be handled in a group setting. What we do is meet individually with the individual, and first of all you make very, very sure that they have the skills to achieve the outcome. Then we make sure that there was no confusion regarding what the expectations were. You have to be very, very careful not to take on the role of therapist. So you help the person look through what are those barriers, but I think you keep that within very clear boundaries as to the outcomes not that, “I've got all these things going on in my life that aren't working.” I think that is a very individualized process, and I think you have to break it down into smaller components if that is what the problem is. You just keep re-thinking through that process in a problem solving sort of way. If the person is not getting outcomes based on work ethics that they have, then you deal with that in a human resources process.



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