Benefits

• Surveying employees about attendance policies
• Creating guidelines around sick days, tardiness and dangling (not filling out time cards)
• Rewarding successful employees with a formal lunch

What can your team do to reward and recognize one another?

• Creating a rewards and recognition program for perfect attendance
• Educating and coaching staff about attendance, improving communication and rebuilding trust
• Creating flexible schedules, approving last-minute vacation requests and working to raise morale

What can your team do to reward and recognize one another? 

• Highlighting options for taking days off, such as life balance days, vacation time and the Family and Medical Leave Act
• Encouraging a Thrive culture and extending lunch hours to allow for walks and fresh air
• Hosting monthly wellness potlucks to bond and build team unity

What can your team do to ensure employees know about the benefits and policies that affect them? 

• Sharing scheduling data with collaborative departments
• Setting boundaries to respect the other department’s needs and processes, like avoiding late-day appointments
• Writing it down and gettng consensus so everyone can follow the procedure

What can your team do to work collaboratively with a sister department to improve the patient experience? 

• Reducing cancer IV medication waste
• Scheduling back-to-back, same-day appointments
• Using smaller vials

 What can your team do to consolidate resources and improve efficiency?

Being the best place to work in health care enables Kaiser Permanente to attract, retain and reward the best people in health care. That means setting the standard for employee engagement; career development and security; workplace health, wellness and safety—and wages and benefits. It’s why more than 90 percent of employees say they are proud to work at Kaiser Permanente and have confidence in KP’s business success.