Practice Hub Lunch and Learn Series 2023-2024

Collaborations are essential in any field that requires group work, but collaborations are only sometimes intentional. The Group Development Model aims to help simplify chaos while simultaneously recognizing the complexity of collaborative work. The GDM aids in establishing working relationships, tapping into the group's wisdom and expertise, and designing a process for decision-making to reach successful outcomes together. Thus the GDM helps create intentional collaboration. 

“Interpersonal feedback is a practice that builds working relationships between collaborators who approach and do work in different ways, and who need to express what will encourage them to bring their best selves to a project."

“Our education systems do not traditionally teach us how to give and receive feedback. Identifying what you need to be successful in collaboration and what your partners need is critical to building strong, successful working relationships."

Join us as we explore the Feedback Model and learn how to establish supportive conditions for engagement. 

This workshop discusses some principles of equitable and effective community engagement at each process stage, before, during, and after the community-engaged project. We focus on cultural humility and respectful communication and guide participants through applying those principles to real-world community engagement scenarios.

Goals for the workshop include:

• Participants will be able to recall and define one or two key principles of equitable and effective community engagement
• Participants will be able to apply the principles of equitable and effective community engagement to real-world scenarios

 Everyone is part of a complex system. This system can be broken down into many other smaller systems. We can use a Systems Thinking approach to understand how these systems work and intertwine with each other.

"Solving complex problems often includes choosing the right stakeholders and engaging them in a participatory manner."

Let's explore engaging stakeholders using a Systems Thinking approach.

Communication and public health go hand-in-hand. They work with one another to ensure the public is armed with accurate, timely, and helpful information.

This session will engage students by walking through case studies where communication and public health worked to avert crisis and when communication failed and a public health crisis was imminent.

Crystal S. Campbell, Public Information Officer for Washtenaw County and former Communication Educator, will lead this workshop