
Explore the universal stages of change and how motivational interviewing helps senior housing professionals recognize and respond to residents, helping them thrive rather than just survive.
Explore the stages of change identified by Prochaska and DiClemente and apply motivational interviewing to guide seniors in housing through change and forward progress.
Explore precontemplation in senior housing change, using empathy and reflective statements to raise awareness, honor autonomy, and minimize resistance, with small, incremental steps to move conversations forward.
Explain how the contemplation stage of the stages of change uses empathy, evocative questions, and values to address ambivalence in seniors considering moving to a senior housing community.
Identify preparation stage change talk and build motivation through reflective statements, evocative questions, and values-based conversations. Guide seniors toward independent, informed decisions about moving to senior living.
In the action stage, clients actively take steps and commit to small changes. Use affirmations, summarizing, and reflecting to reinforce readiness and move forward.
Practice identifying a client's stage of change in senior housing conversations. Tailor responses to move them forward, using quizzes and example answers to sharpen your communication skills.
Explore the stages of change in senior housing sales, learn to respond to each stage, and move conversations forward; engage on LinkedIn with the Clay Senior Consult Training hashtag.
As a company that values infusing more empathy, compassion,, and understanding into the senior housing world and wants to help more seniors THRIVE in their elder years, this is our training on understanding the stages of change in the industry.
Are you in the senior housing industry and finding seniors back and forth on changing a challenge? Or maybe you want to communicate more effectively with families and aging adults about change. Struggling with how to reduce or decrease resistance to change? If your working with Senior Citizens, you'll find this class helpful to your process! At Calais Senior Consult, we teach Motivational Interviewing, an evidence-based practice for cultivating conversations about change, and in this course, we take one massive concept from Motivational Interviewing to dive into the stages of change. In this 45 minute course you learn about the 4 stages of change that are used in Senior Housing, you learn how to identify each stage of change, what it typically sounds like in real life, and how to move conversations forward. No more getting stuck with prospects! And now if someone is "resistant" to change, you'll know what to do! With practice opportunities throughout, you get a real chance to test your knowledge on the concepts and ensure you are picking up everything! Lastly, there is a 15-day post-training self-assessment guide to help ensure you have picked up the most important details from this training. This 45 minute class is going to be well worth it!
With over a decade of experience in Senior living sales and a decade of studying Motivational Interviewing, this short course is going to help you feel more confident when having change conversations with Senior Citizens. Lastly, make sure to connect with me on Linkedin, I would love to hear from you! Plus I share Senior Housing sales tips and reminders there regularly!