 To address the shortage of palliative care workforce and changes in advanced care planning reimbursement, institutions are requesting palliative care specialists to provide serious illness communication training to their workforce using a structured guide like the Partner's Serious Illness Conversation Guide. Best practices for teaching use of such guides include fostering a safe learning environment, explicit teaching of structured communication and preparing co-facilitators to adapt to differing skill levels of learners. This article was authored by Bethany Rose Dobman, Rachelle Bernacke, Mark Stoltenberg and others.