StrategEase: The HOW of Creating Sustainable Change
A step-by-step roadmap for selecting change strategies.
🗓️ Enrollment open year-round
💻 100% Online
⏱️ Self-paced
Why StrategEase?
Throughout our work supporting hundreds of change initiatives, we regularly see assumptions being made about why people are or aren’t changing. Because of these assumptions, people aren’t properly supported to change.
Consider how often education and training are used to try to get others to do something differently. It’s easy to assume they aren’t following through with the change because they don’t know they’re supposed to do it, so we think providing knowledge will help.
But what if they actually know what they’re supposed to do, but don’t? What if things like beliefs or emotions are actually what’s hindering them? If that’s the case, how successful will education be as a strategy? (Spoiler alert: It won’t be.)
If you’re implementing any kind of change, this probably sounds familiar. You know the results that you want to achieve, but getting there is hard. What if instead of relying on assumptions, you could tap into what’s really going on?
We’ll guide you through the process of creating change!
StrategEase: The HOW of Creating Sustainable Change provides you with a step-by-step roadmap for supporting people to change, so that you can achieve the outcomes and impact you’re aiming for.
Using our StrategEase Pathway, we unpack the components of creating sustainable change, show you how to systematically understand barriers and facilitators to change, and how to select strategies to address them.
By drawing from the scientific literature as well as our own experiences supporting 100+ implementation projects, this pathway lays out 4 major steps to guide you through the process of creating any kind of change.
This course will show you how to use theory and evidence to select your change strategies and set up your initiative (and yourself) for success.
Meet your instructors
“The StrategEase pathway is the foundation of all change efforts. We often see people implementing and even scaling change initiatives before they have done a deep dive into understanding WHO is being asked to do WHAT and doing a deep dive into people's barriers and facilitators to change. When we skip these steps, it’s easy for people to choose change strategies that they are comfortable with (like education or audit and feedback), without recognizing whether these strategies directly addressed peoples barriers to change. This course provides a step-by-step guide to help you be more strategic in how you create change.”
“I truly believe that thinking about people - where they live and work, their experiences, their challenges and successes and how they can be supported - is the key to understanding change. The StrategEase centers people in change, and teaches participants the core components of any change initiative: the WHO, the WHAT and the HOW. So many people who have taken this course, no matter what field or level of the system they work in, have had light bulb moments about the nature of change and feel that their work is more intentional and thoughtful.”
This course is for you if…
You want to design and implement initiatives using a more evidence-based approach
You’ve collected data on why people aren’t changing their behavior but feel a bit lost with what to do next
Your efforts didn’t produce the outcomes you intended and now you aren’t sure which strategies would have a greater impact
You want strategic guidance for creating long-lasting change
Who might benefit from this course?
Changemakers
Researchers
Students
Program developers
Consultants
Evaluators
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What is included in StrategEase?
🎥 25+ short-form instructional videos led by your instructors, Dr. Julia Moore, Executive Director of The Center for Implementation and Dr. Sobia Khan, Director of Implementation
🎧 6 short-form audio recordings where we share the hidden curriculum — tips & suggestions from our experiences in supporting various initiatives using StrategEase
📝 Interactive activities to help test your knowledge (a favorite feature of many of our past participants)
⚙️ A collection of 4 hands-on tools developed by our expert team to help you put StrategEase concepts into practice with additional resources that can help you engage your team, facilitate the activities, and gain momentum within your organization
📖 6 assignments that enable you to apply the instructional content to your own work and initiatives
💻 6 conversational videos where we walk you through 2 context-specific examples to illustrate how the assignments can be applied to projects
📎 A comprehensive PDF workbook that is yours to keep which gives an overview of all course concepts, activities, readings, and assignments
📚 Recommended readings and additional resources
💬 Direct communication with our course facilitators to answer your questions as you move through the content
👥 Networking opportunities with other course participants
🎓 Certificate of completion after successfully completing the course and assignments
By taking this course you will…
Be able to clearly articulate your vision and the impact of your initiative
Consider equity throughout every stage of the implementation process
Define WHO is being asked to do WHAT differently
Learn how to unpack and link barriers and facilitators to behavior change theory
Select change strategies that address barriers and facilitators
Plan for sustainability from the very beginning
Free StrategEase tool
StrategEase was formerly a paper-based process that has turned into a free, online interactive tool for busy professionals. It guides you through four steps that will simplify and speed up the time it takes to plan for implementation.
The goal of this tool is to guide you through the process of mapping your barriers and facilitators to a list of change strategies.
Module Overview
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The relationship between dissemination and implementation, and the difference between their science and practice
The social nature of creating change and its relational aspects
What’s involved in planning for implementation as well as implementing, spreading, and scaling an initiative
A framework you can use to think about how to embody equity in your change efforts
Defining your role and the role of others in the implementation system
The different components of planning for sustainability
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How to develop an implementation team
The importance of distinguishing between a need and a gap
How defining the WHY and what success looks like early on helps to move implementation forward
Considerations related to evidence and equity
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How to define WHO is being asked to do WHAT differently and HOW you can they will be supported to change their behavior
The nested and interconnected nature of change, which emerges when WHOs and WHATs are nested within one another in complex initiatives
The different kinds of WHATs and how the 7 Ps can help you unpack your WHAT
Why you might need to adapt what you are implementing to different contexts, and different factors you can use to understand what adaptations might need to be made
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Why exploring barriers and facilitators is critical to success when designing for implementation
Using theory to understand barriers and facilitators
The multiple different factors that impact whether individuals change
The contextual factors that impact whether an implementation setting changes
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How change strategies are related to barriers and facilitators
The different purposes change strategies can serve
Considerations to make when enacting change strategies
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How each step of the StrategEase Pathway comes together to form an initiative ready for implementation
The difference between theories, models, frameworks, and approaches
Additional training opportunities and our Implementation Support Specialist certificate program
We believe in
competency-based learning.
This table shows which implementation support core competencies and functions are relevant in this course.
Learn more about TCI's Implementation Support Core Competencies and Functions.
Hover over each item to view its definition.
Course schedule
This part is up to you! After you enroll, you’ll be given access to a new module each week to help spread out the material, but we can provide you with access to all modules if you’d like.
This course does not include any live components. It’s entirely online and asynchronous. This means that you can learn whenever and wherever you want to! You won’t feel any “Zoom fatigue” here.
We’ve synthesized complex concepts into video and audio recordings that are short and easy to digest so you can take action in the real world right away.
➡️ You’ll have access to all course content for 1 year.
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Benefits of taking this course
We designed this course to answer questions we’ve received from 1000+ implementers across 6 continents.
StrategEase: The HOW of Creating Sustainable Change is open to all individuals in any sector. No previous training is required.
Everyone can benefit from joining!
If you’ve already designed your change initiatives, this course can help you enhance specific components in transformative ways.
If you’re brand new, it provides a step-by-step guide.
We’ll show you how to:
Define WHO needs to change, WHAT they need to do differently, and your WHY
Unpack and map your barriers and facilitators to theory
Identify HOW you will support people to change by selecting strategies that directly address their barriers and facilitators
We make applying implementation science easy to understand so that you can immediately benefit from using theories, models, and frameworks in your change efforts. You’ll feel more confident, empowered, and less overwhelmed.
Many previous participants have repeatedly taken this course, each time discovering greater value in the concepts as their understanding of implementation planning deepens. There are also many examples where participants used the knowledge and skills they gain in this course to advance their careers or find new jobs.
Implementation Support Specialist Certificate
If you’re interested in becoming a Certified Level 1 Implementation Support Specialist, this course counts towards the Level 1 requirements.
Benefits for organizations
Organizations that send their staff to attend this course experience many benefits.
We’ve seen how staff:
Invigorate the way they design change initiatives by using StrategEase
Further embrace the StrategEase process to the point of building capacity within their organization, making it “the new way of work”
Strengthen their ability to work together by developing a shared understanding of concepts and common terminology
Increase their value-add by being guided by implementation science
Become more cohesive, communicative, and focused by defining a clear vision and working towards a shared goal
Plus, this course also benefits the teams that are directly implementing these initiatives, and those who are actually asked to change.
We’ve heard from previous participants that engaging in shared sensemaking of course concepts as a team and collectively determining how to move forward using what they’ve learned in this course strengthens how their implementation unfolds.
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Course Fees & Discounts
Get access to all course components at the affordable rate of $430 USD or $550 CAD.
StrategEase: The HOW of Creating Sustainable Change is open to all individuals in any sector. Previous training from TCI is not required.
To build a truly theory-informed and evidence-based initiative that maximizes the chances of successful implementation, we recommend completing StrategEase prior to Implementation, Spread, and Scale, our other Level 1 course.
Have a discount code?
Discounts are available for past participants of TCI’s paid courses, Implementing Change Community members (join anytime!), full-time students, groups of 3+, participants in LMICs, and Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC) members.
Free spots for participants in LMICs
In an effort to support capacity building in applying implementation science in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), we offer 40 free spots for eligible professionals to enroll in one of our courses twice per year.
We'll open up applications for these spots again in May. Please check back then or join our mailing list to be notified.
Frequently asked questions
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StrategEase: The HOW of Creating Sustainable Change is open for enrollment year-round. That means you can join anytime!
You'll have access to all course modules and materials for 1 year from the date you enroll, so you can move through the content on your own schedule.
If you’re interested in receiving a certificate of completion, you’ll have until the end of your 1-year course access period to submit your completed assignments.
Our course facilitators will be regularly answering any questions you have throughout your 1-year access period as well.
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Yes, the entire course is online and asynchronous, so it can be completed at a pace that works best for you. There are no live learning components.
We know people don't learn optimally when they have to be online for long periods of time, so we developed this course to help you better grasp the concepts through short video and audio recordings that you can view at your convenience to suit your learning style and needs.
Each of the 6 modules will be released to you on a weekly basis starting from the date you enroll; however, if you'd like access to the full course right away, just let us know.
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If you finish all modules and the 6 assignments prior to the end of your 1-year course access period, you’ll receive a certificate of completion.
In addition, consider pursuing our Level 1 Implementation Support Specialist certification to add more tools to your implementation toolbox!
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The time commitment varies, but we estimate each module takes 4-8 hours to complete, which includes time spent on assignments.
The assignments are about directly relating the content back to your own work; therefore, how much time can be quite variable depending on how much background work you choose to do.
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You’ll have access to all course content for 1 year starting from the date you enroll.
Before your access ends, we encourage you to revisit the content and download the available course materials.
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Our course facilitators respond regularly to questions posted in the comment sections of the course. This is where you can receive direct support.
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After several years of teaching the content from Designing for Implementation, supporting more and more implementation initiatives, and listening to feedback from past participants, we refined concepts, updated terminology, and streamlined how we deliver the key components of the course to make it easily digestible and ultra practical.
We completely restructured the course, recorded all new videos that are shorter in length, added audio-only recordings, incorporated new types of content, revised all assignments and activities, and updated the workbook. We also included new components like videos that guide participants through examples and tools to ensure that participants can take what they learn and immediately apply it to what they're working on.
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Yes, we aim to make our courses accessible to everyone. We offer the following discounts (one per person):
20% off for past participants of TCI’s paid courses
20% off for members of the Implementing Change Community (Join anytime!)
20% off for groups of 3+ (additional discounts are available for large groups)
20% off for Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC) members
30% off for full-time students
70% off for individuals in low- and middle-income countries as defined by the World Bank
Please see the “Have a discount code?” section above for how to get your code.
Still wondering if this course is right for you?
We encourage you to enroll if any of these apply to you:
You want to feel more confident in how to approach the work that you're doing and stay motivated to move towards the change you want to see.
You want more time instead of getting lost in implementation science literature. You would rather follow a step-by-step roadmap to find the most appropriate theories, models, and frameworks for your work and then focus your time on what’s most relevant.
You want to experience growth and have a greater impact.
Have any questions?
Contact us.
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Interested in getting a sense of our teaching style?
Enroll in Inspiring Change 2.0, our free mini-course on the foundations of implementation science, or watch the recording of our free virtual workshops on Practical Guidance for Embodying Equity in Implementation!
