NIATx opportunities for tomorrow

NIATx opportunities for tomorrow

Over 13,000 Over 13,000 substance abuse substance abuse

treatment providers treatment providers nationwide.nationwide.

Making Decisions: Nominal Group

Technique

Action Phases of Change

• Understand customer needs

• Decide what you want to accomplish

• Identify when an aim is an improvement

• Select and test changes

• Sustain the gains

Generating Solutions

• We have done a walk-through

• We have talked to some clients

• We have identified problems

Now we need to identify

• Solutions– NGT can help!!

Nominal Group Technique (NGT)

• Designed to promote group participation in the decision making process

• Uses priorities of each group member to discover the overall priorities of the group

• Used by small groups to – Reach consensus on the identification of key problems (NIATx Key

Principle 2) or

– Develop solutions that can be tested using rapid cycles (NIATx Key

Principle 5)

Seven Steps

• Preparation (e.g., room and question)

• Silent idea generation

• Recording of ideas

• Idea discussion

• Preliminary voting

• Discussion of preliminary voting

• Final voting on ideas