Voice-activated, immersive virtual reality leadership training designed to help leaders approach sensitive issues with their teams and inspired by “Taboo: Leveraging maximize polarizing discussions in the workplace,” author Dr. Alex Alonso, SHRM-SCP, CKO of the Society for Human Resource Management.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
Novant Health has announced that it has rolled out what it says is VR-based leadership development training for the first time in partnership with the Novant Health Innovation Lab.
Some of its clinical and non-technical leaders joined using a soft skills training program created by Brooklyn, New York-based tech studio Moth + Flame. The cloud-based platform, called Promise, uses virtual reality to drive and sustain organizational culture change.
Team members across the health system, serving locations in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, will also immerse themselves in a lifelike environment that uses natural language processing to practice their treatments. Tough discussions in the workplace – and ultimately addressing unconscious bias – in a supportive, non-threatening environment.
Dr Chere Gregory, senior vice president and director of health equity at Novant Health, said: “Health care is extremely personal and can sometimes require difficult conversations.
They will be isolated from their surroundings and use their voices to interact with the virtual participants.
Moth + Flame reports that this type of immersion gives organizations more training effectiveness than 2D guided training because “participants learn by doing rather than by split-clicking,” according to notification.
Kevin Cornish, founder and CEO of Moth + Flame, said: “Virtual reality is transforming enterprise training by reducing training time and improving training outcomes. We found that human leaders trust the material they learn more than traditional forms of learning”.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
Virtual reality is being used in the healthcare sector for needs such as surgical training and patient distraction, and even to address shortages of mental health professionals.
At Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, Tennessee, the use of According to Dr. Cory Calendine, chief of orthopedic surgery, VR-based surgical training has significantly increased the accuracy and completion rate of the procedure. He said IT news about healthcare earlier this month, he advised early integration of VR systems into training programs.
Virtual reality is also Risa Weisberg, clinical director at BehaVR and a licensed clinical psychologist who teaches in psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and Brown University says:
“Virtual reality replaces your sensory input, creating an immersive experience that the brain processes like a whole new reality,” she says.
“It’s as if whatever you’re seeing and hearing is actually happening to you. This level of interactivity means that experiences in VR are processed by your brain just like real-life experiences.”
ON PROFILE
“I’m proud to be part of an organization committed to investing in training and developing a forward-thinking mindset, giving our team members the confidence and ability to have the conversations they need. with team members and/or their patients,” Gregory said in the prepared statement.
“At Novant Health, we are constantly looking for solutions that combine our focus on purposeful innovation and people-centred care,” said Carmen Canales, senior vice president and chief human resources officer and staff of Novant Health said.
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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