Unit-based team concepts

Format:
PDF

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
Unit-based team sponsors

Best used:
One-page tip sheet with questions sponsors should ask their teams or team leaders to better understand and respond to the teams' needs. Use to help team sponsors prepare and communicate with the teams they support.

Format:
Excel spreadsheet

Size:
8.5" x 11" 

Intended audience:
UBT co-leads and sponsors

Best used:
This tool, developed by the Northwest region, can be adapted by other Kaiser Permanente regions to help team leaders and sponsors track team progress and tactics. Use it to report regular updates on team progress toward regional business goals.

Format:
Word documents, 1 page each

Size:
8.5" x 11"  

Intended audience:
Frontline teams, managers, sponsors, physicians and guests to use at UBT fairs to ensure they learn about the successful practices of several teams

Best used:
Download and hand out these passports at your UBT fair to ensure participants visit several teams (passports come in a six-team and a four-team version). Teams presenting at the fair can mark off participants’ passports with a pen or colorful sticker. Participants can redeem the passports for snacks or giveaways. Also use the passports as tickets for raffle drawings at your event.

For more tools, please visit the How-To Guide: UBT Fair in a Box.

Format:
PDF

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
UBT sponsors

Best used:
This checklist of essential tasks for UBT sponsors can help them up their game while supporting and advancing their teams.

Format:
PowerPoint slide

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
Frontline teams, managers, sponsors, physicians

Best used:
This one-page slide shows how an Ambulatory surgery recovery team in Hawaii saved nearly $10,000 per month by reducing duplicate and overstocked supplies in the Moanalua Medical Center operating room. Include in meetings or presentations as an example of UBT performance improvement.

Format:
Word

Size:
Two pages, 8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
UBT co-leads

Best used:
Use this tool for process improvement work, using the three fundamental questions of the Rapid Improvement Model. Help team members name their improvement goals, decide what measures they will use to determine whether there is improvement and identify changes they can make to lead to an improvement.

Format:
Word document

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
UBT co-leads

Best used:
Help new members feel like part of the team by following this checklist. 

Format:
Word document

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
UBT co-leads and members

Best used:
Communicate key messages from team meetings to stakeholders who were unable to attend, and document the communication of the messages.

Format:
Doc

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
UBT teams and co-leads

Best used:
SBAR (pronounced S-BAR) is a structured communication technique that provides important information concisely. Use this tool in the following situations: You want an action to be considered or taken; there is key information to share with another individual, such as during change of shift; or you want to escalate a concern.