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Whether you’re opening your first recovery home, leading an established program, working as a peer or recovery support provider, or a community partner, there’s something here for you.

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Time Management Essentials

How do we make the most of the time we have? Time is both precious and fleeting, and many of us feel like there just aren’t enough hours in the day. This course will give you core strategies to tackle that problem. First, you’ll learn the basic principles of time management, along with some symptoms that could uncover poor uses of time. Then, you’ll discover how to track and analyze your time to boost productivity. Finally, you’ll get seven tips to start managing your time more effectively.

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Project Best Practices: Communication & Tracking

Tracking your project work and communicating project results are important to engage your stakeholders and maintain or increase momentum for your project. These two microcourses will help you manage your projects. Project Logs - The Project Management Training Series outlines the essential steps, tools, and templates to build a successful recovery housing or other projects. This training will focus on understanding what logs are required to successfully manage your project after kickoff. Project Logs are key artifacts that help you track decisions, changes, actions, risks, issues, lessons learned, and communications. Note: These items are key to managing the implementation of a Rural Recovery Housing Project. Stakeholder Communication - The Project Management Training Series outlines the essential steps, tools, and templates to build a successful recovery housing or other projects. This training will focus on using the results of your Stakeholder Analysis to establish the proper communication with your stakeholder. It will cover the utilization of simple communication tracking tools and outline how to use a project organization chart to your advantage.

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Why Evaluation Matters in Recovery Residences

This course shows the importance of collecting data for a recovery house and how it can improve your house operations. Find out why evaluation matters, what data is the most valuable to collect, and how to evaluate and use the data you secure. Learning Objective: Learners will be able to identify components of evaluation.

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Setting Goals that Actually Work

In this course, you’ll learn why the process of setting your goals is just as important as choosing targets that truly matter. You’ll also learn how to set goals that accurately reflect your purpose and find tools you can use to track your progress. In the end, you’ll walk away with a stronger sense of alignment between your vision and the daily habits that will help you conquer your goals in the long run.

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A Manager's Guide to Resolving Team Conflict

You’d love for your employees to always get along. But the reality is that disagreements happen when you bring together people with different personalities, opinions, and values. As a manager, you need to keep an eye on potential conflicts between employees and help them resolve issues effectively. Otherwise, your team’s morale, productivity, and communication may take a hit. In this course, you’ll learn why conflict happens, common ways people react to conflict, and how to turn workplace disagreements into opportunities for constructive dialogue, change, and new understanding.

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Managing Staff

This series covers 3 major pieces of effective staff management: Communication, Listening, and Delegation. Explore ways to improve your management skills and create successful teams.

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Budgeting for Recovery Residences

When developing a recovery house, it is important to identify ways to sustain your operation. This course covers the basics of recovery house financing considerations, including capital expenses, operating expenses, stopgap funding, and ways to become sustainable.

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Finding the Balance: Your Recovery House and Alumni Support

Alumni support is a critical factor in building a healthy support network for your recovery house. You can gain valuable insights, referrals, and new opportunities by building strong and lasting connections with your alumni. By the end of this course, participants can use these best practices to build upon the action plan for their recovery house Alumni Network you began in our course Optimizing Success.

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Communication Fundamentals

In recovery housing, it is important to both staff and residents to ensure they competently use good communication. But have you ever found yourself wondering what that means—or how to demonstrate you’re a good communicator? In this course, you’ll learn how to define communication, the types of communication we use at work, how to choose the right delivery method for your message, and how to remove barriers to having it understood.

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Urine Analysis: From a Resident Perspective

This course will explain urine analysis from the residents perspective. Providing person-first care, dignity, and respect is hugely important to your residents. This course explains how urine analysis can affect the resident.

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Changing the Recovery Workforce

Three shorter courses make up this mega course addressing the recovery workforce and how building skills from the employer and employee side changes the workplace landscape. A New Path Forward: Harnessing the Benefits of Relational Employment for Those in Recovery - Rob and Diane Perez of DV8 Kitchen in Lexington, KY, partner with the Fletcher Group RCOE to bring you this eye-opening course on transforming your business model from transactional to relational. Rob shares his journey as a business owner with all the rules, to a business owner who breaks barriers to develop healthy employer and employee relationships, which he credits for making DV8 Kitchen a national top 40 restaurant on Yelp. Transferable Skills - When seeking employment, it's important to identify your transferable skills. These are your skills like leadership, communication, adaptability, etc., that you exhibit and bring to any role. This course helps you to identify transferable skills so you can add them to your resume or share them as part of the interview process with potential employers. Virtual Networking - The ability to network within virtual spaces has become a valuable skill to master over the past year. These skills will be important beyond the pandemic as many employers predict work-from-home careers and virtual networking will remain as part of a new normal. This short course provides an introductory overview of virtual networking.

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SWOT Analysis

SWOT Analysis is a strategic tool organizations use to identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and 'threats.' The tool is a way to help a rural recovery house board agree on what they do best now and develop strategies for the future. This course covers the basics of SWOT Analysis and the basics of using the tool.

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