Power Up Your Exercise: Using Gamification & AI for Staff Engagement | 9.25.25
James W. Hunt, Jr. Training & Learning Center, Worcester, MA Visit Website
Thursday, September 25, 2025
9:30 AM - 2:30 PM
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Eastern Standard Time
In honor of National Preparedness Month, join us for a dynamic half-day in-person workshop designed to help you make emergency preparedness exercises more engaging and effective for your staff. Explore how gamification strategies and artificial intelligence tools can revitalize drills, tabletops, and other training formats—while boosting participation from staff across departments. This session will offer practical ideas and hands-on strategies to help Emergency Management leads and their multidisciplinary teams bring fresh energy, relevance, and collaboration into every exercise.
Cost: $45 per person
Audience: Emergency Management leads, Operations and Administration, Clinical teams, Quality Improvement, Nurse Managers, Facilities staff, Information Technology teams
Learning objectives for this session are as follows:
- Provide an overview of CMS emergency preparedness requirements and the structure of the two-year emergency management (EM) exercise cycle, including planning, exercises, improvement planning, and plan updates.
- Present practical tools and frameworks—such as After Action Reports (AARs), Quality Improvement (QI) methods, and rolling Improvement Plans (IPs)—to support emergency preparedness programming.
- Demonstrate the use of gamified and AI-powered exercises as innovative approaches to staff engagement and emergency preparedness training while also reducing cognitive load and time required to create high-quality training experiences.
- Outline strategies for aligning emergency preparedness activities with organizational quality improvement initiatives in community health centers.
- Promote multidisciplinary collaboration as a means to enhance staff engagement and ownership of emergency preparedness efforts.