We’re Here For: Public Healthcare Organizations
We support you to recruit and retain team members.
Public healthcare organizations are looking to retain and recruit healthcare practitioners while meeting the needs and health outcomes of patients being served.
We help you by providing customized Micro Credentialing training to equip your healthcare team with new skills using the Coach Approach, supporting patient-accountability and practitioners burnout reduction.
We guarantee evidence-based training that will be immediately actionable to your team supporting you to recruit and retain team members by creating a culture that focuses on wellness and job satisfaction.
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Our Customized Solutions for the Public Healthcare Sector
Provide your staff with accredited evidence-based training immediately applicable in the workforce to improve patient’s empowerment to manage their health.
Set yourself apart from other healthcare organizations by offering your team Micro Credential training in a Coach Approach that will improve their clinical and leadership skills.
Improve your team’s credibility, confidence and skills by offering Micro Credentialing training in a Coach Approach and leaving with a structured framework and customized tools they can use immediately with clients.
Train your team in using an approach that can effectively be delivered via e-health individually and in groups.
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What We Promise
We strive to provide public healthcare organizations with Micro Credentialing training to equip your healthcare team with new skills using a Coach Approach, supporting patient-accountability and practitioners burnout reduction.
Training Excellence
More than 20 years of experience advancing core competencies in healthcare with evidence-based training accredited by top renowned healthcare organizations.
Micro Credential
Committed to elevating the foundational skills and competencies of healthcare professionals and teams through professional development certification for faster implementation.
Actionable Solutions
Comprehensive in-house expertise in designing and delivering tailored healthcare training with actionable solutionsfor your organization’s needs, budget, and timeline.
Why Choose Function First Coaching
Knowledge elevation for your team
Customized Online modules for Self-Pace Learning
Live Training for Skill Practice
Mentorship to Train the Trainer
Interactive and Experiential
Customized Tools for your Organization
Our Tailored Solutions
Function First Coaching offers robust continuing education (CE) to equip your team with a proven evidence-based methodology to reduce employee burnout, improve clinical outcomes, and grow leadership skills. Our solutions provide your team with actionable content they can use the next day to transform clinical practice.
Coaching Training
Level 1 - Introduction
Develop skills that will boost clinical outcome, reduce burnout & improve leadership skills.
Earn 12 CCE
Attend the first levels of our certification to improve patient’s empowerment to manage their health, elevating work satisfaction.
Delivery Methodology
- 8 hours online modules
- 4 hours live training
- Maximum attendees: 36
Coaching Training
Light version
Implement actionable coaching techniques recruit and retain team members.
Earn 4 CCE
Attend this crash course and learn key techniques to remain employee-centered improving staff’s needs and job satisfaction.
Delivery Methodology
- 3 hours online module
- 1.5 hours live training
- Maximum attendees: 36
Team Building Workshop
Assess and inspire your team to work more effectively as a team and grow coaching skills.
Earn 6 CCE
Discover the right strength, at the right time for the right result within your team and further develop their communication skills.
Delivery Methodology
- 3 x 2.5 hours Live Sessions or Full Day
- 1 hour Recap session
- Maximum attendees: 24
Education Day or Annual Conference coming up?
Dip your toe in the Dive Into A Coach Approach™ with our 1 to 3 hour seminar packages to discover and practice a set of skills. Swim away with practical tools tailored to your needs.
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Your Trainer
Hélène Thériault- BScOT, MAdEd, PCC
Hélène Thériault is a world-renowned speaker, holistic coach, and educator – fluent in both French and English. With her company Function First Coaching, she is on a mission to change the face of healthcare by empowering service providers, professionals, and leaders to build sustainable practices and improve patients’ clinical outcomes.
“When you get the most out of yourself and learn how to put your best foot forward, that’s when I’m at my happiest!”
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I wish I had taken Hélène’s “Coach Approach” workshop years ago!! Hélène is very knowledgeable and passionate about the coach approach, and also about empowering Clinicians to improve their practice and expand their horizons! I appreciated the learning materials, teaching tools and strategies, as well as templates to give my practice a boost. If you are contemplating taking a workshop by Hélène, stop thinking and register. You won’t regret it!
Nine months following this training, I’ve noticed time and time again, each day, that an intentional practice of a coach approach is not only valuable in a therapist-patient relationship, but it is profoundly beneficial in a team of coworkers.
An interactive course that allows participants to put 'coach approach' theory into practice right away! Hélène's course is relevant to healthcare professionals working in diverse practice areas. The framework can be applied quickly to narrow down client goals which is useful when time is limited. I will use the coaching skills learned in this course to support patient-centred care.
I attended the Team Building training with Hélène offered to my team. Her energy, passion and enthusiasm kept me wide eyed throughout. Three years later, we continue to use the tools she has left us with. And as she mentioned in her training, it has had an immediate impact on both my professional and personal relationships. Highly recommended for any teams to work more effectively together.
The coach approach training with Hélène was very well thought out. Her knowledge of education and knowledge transfer was apparent. Helen’s training has opened up career growth opportunities for me right away, I highly recommend this training for any healthcare professional!
Hélène was such an efficient facilitator! We did the Team Building workshop. We couldn’t believe how much material we learned and have been integrating what we learned into our workplace culture. The team cohesion has improved and we were so glad to have made space in our schedules to make this training happen, it was well worth the time and investment. We can’t recommend it enough!
Hélène provides a person centred evidence informed workshop in her Dive into Coach Approach™ training. The sessions were interactive, engaging and tailored to my work setting so the theory and skills we practiced were easily translated to my day to day.
To any healthcare provider looking to avoid burnout, her coaching micro-credentialing training is for you! Hélène directs you to see the individual as a whole person and trust in their inner resources to solve any problem. I have implemented this into my 15-minute appointments with great results, both for my patients, and more importantly myself. Give the coach approach a try and see for yourself some major shifts in your energy!”
This training is a MUST for any healthcare professional! I've been able to apply the learning immediately not only in my role as a pediatric occupational therapist but also in my leadership role.
After this training, I have experienced effective results in my OT practice, leader role as a CEO and even with my kids. Highly recommended for any healthcare professional!
Hélène training was one of the best trainings I’ve attended in a long time! I had been looking for a formal model to base the coaching skills I have from my OT training, Hélène provided it very succinctly in the training modules. She is very knowledgeable, the content is engaging and can be adapted to suit various settings.
Hélène was such an efficient facilitator! We did the Team Building workshop. We couldn’t believe how much material we learned and have been integrating what we learned into our workplace culture. The team cohesion has improved and we were so glad to have made space in our schedules to make this training happen, it was well worth the time and investment. We can’t recommend it enough!
The Coach Approach training has provided me with easy-to-implement, powerful tools that I can use in my practice with both parents and some children. It has shifted my perspective to be more attuned to the important role of parents and children as their own best expert, and has honed both my listening and reflection skills to more effectively collaborate to create effective solutions.
This training gave me the confidence and tools to further develop my coaching skills, incorporate a new program in my workplace and motivated me to go for my ICF Credentials. Hélène made the learning fun and interactive!
Engaging in Hélène’s training will help you foster SUSTAINABLE change and not dependence. It has the power to unlock the ability for YOU to unlock your clients' abilities. I have been able to apply the coaching principles to both my clinical and leadership role.
This training can change the way you work with people, which has led to more positive outcome in my practice. Implementing the new tools has really helped me to get to the root of the problem with my clients which has been very beneficial.
This training has introduced me to new tools and techniques to add and keep practicing as a clinician to support my clients. I would recommend this training to new and experienced Kinesiologists!
Hélène is a highly skilled coach and teacher who transcends the OT lens and makes her workshops relevant to all participants. The techniques taught and how they are taught make the material immediately transferable to day-to-day work.
Hélène’s training is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on how to continue growing as a practitioner and how to best meet our more complicated client's needs. It is an awesome tool for the toolbox when I hit a road block and need some inspiration on how to put the control back into the clients hands as it is their journey after all.
This training can change the way you work with people, which has led to more positive outcome in my practice. Implementing the new tools has really helped me to get to the root of the problem with my clients which has been very beneficial.
