Cost management

Format:
XLS (spreadsheet)

Size:
1 page

Intended audience:
UBT co-leads or team members

Best used:
Use this spreadsheet to track and determine the economic benefits of your team's performance improvement projects—you can easily see the impact of your efforts on the bottom line.

Note: Entries are placeholders; delete them and add your own information.

Format:
PDF (color and black and white)

Size:
8.5” x 11” (two-sided)

Intended audience:
Level 2 and higher unit-based teams

Best used: Download and share this introduction to performance improvement with team members as a guide to the common types of wasted resources that diminish care and service. 

Use with:

• Waste Walk Instructions
• Waste Walk Observation Sheets

Format:
PDF

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
Managers and union members

Best used:
Review this list at your UBT meeting to see if your team could adapt one of these projects to improve affordability.

Format:
PDF

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
Frontline workers and managers

Best used:
This Hank Lib from Winter 2013 can provide variety and fun at a team meeting while highlighting waste reduction and savings.

Format:
PowerPoint

Size:
8.5" x 11", three pages

Intended audience:
Department managers, management and union co-leads and UBT sponsors

Best used:
Shows the growth of performance improvement projects, including cost reduction, efficiency and patient safety.

Format: 
PowerPoint

Size: 
30 slides 

Intended audience:
UBT co-leads, sponsors and consultants

Best used:
To find out what other teams are doing and adapt their successful practices. 

Download PPT