A study of positive deviance in community health won Walden student Piroska Bisits-Bullen the award for best dissertation of the year in 2011. In her study, she reviewed reports of how villagers (often women) solve local health problems in creative ways, for example, addressing protein deficiency in the community, with a simple solution—cultivating shrimp in…

Facilitate shared decision making through negotiation and consensus-building methods. Scenario: Your organization saw a need for additional support, so they gained approval to hire a new staff member. A job posting went out, several people applied, and 15 people were interviewed. The committee narrowed the field to four candidates but could not decide between the…