Organizational Development endeavors to enhance a learning environment for employees, managers, physicians, and volunteers of Western Health. The necessary training and development to attain organizational goals are provided and opportunities for professional and personal growth and development are supported. Specifically:

• Managing the learning environment by:
  • Identifying and analyzing core competencies and professional and staff developments needs through an annual regional needs assessment.
  • Providing training to develop staff to perform according to professional standards and organizational goals and objectives
  • Analyzing, designing, developing, implementing and evaluating learning activities associated with workplace learning and performance.
  • Prioritizing learning activities based on organizational direction, goals and objectives.

• Coaching individual employees, teams, and programs and services by:
  • Using an interactive approach to produce more positive outcomes.
  • Improving others’ ability to set goals, take action, and make better decisions by supporting the full use of their natural strengths.

• Enhancing organizational knowledge by:
  • Developing a plan for transforming the organization into a knowledge creating and sharing entity.
  • Leading innovation in knowledge delivery methodology.
  • Promoting a culture by practicing and encouraging others to practice evidence based decision making, inquiry, evaluation, and lifelong learning.