Improving Staff Performance Through Motivational Interviewing
- This is a Leadership class where participants will learn the rationale for using Motivational Interviewing in a leadership setting.
- Understand the definition of the righting reflex and how it can impact the relationship between the leader and the employee.
- “MI is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.” - Miller & Rollnick, 2013, p. 29, as cited by MINT
Target Audience
Registered Nurses
Social Workers
Learning Objectives
Nursing Learning Outcome:
Health Care Providers and leaders attending this activity will develop improved leadership skills by learning to apply knowledge of Motivational Interviewing techniques for assessing readiness and facilitating positive change behaviors in leadership situations such as performance management.
HMWB- Hickory Redwood /Pine Rooms
Kelli Drenner, PhD
Houston Methodist is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
To be awarded 6.75 continuing professional development hours, the participant must attend the program in its entirety and complete the evaluation tool.
This offering complies with Sec.781.509 of the rules of the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners.
Available Credit
- 6.75 Attendance
- 6.75 Nursing Contact Hours
Houston Methodist is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Houston Methodist will award 6.75 Nursing Continuing Professional Development contact hours for this activity. Participants must attend the activity in its entirety and complete the continuing education evaluation.
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