Unit-based team concepts

A story is a great way to connect with patients and co-workers. This workshop shows you simple ways to share your story.

Training description

Discover how to harness the power of storytelling. Learn our fool-proof technique for sharing your story, inspiring others and spreading successful practices throughout Kaiser Permanente.  

Path to Performance

Levels 1—5

Duration

Usually 90 minutes, but this training can be customized to suit your team's needs.

Who should attend

This in-person training is for unit-based teams, LMP councils, unit/departments, and other groups.

This training will help you practice listening, develop a succinct message and more.

Training description

This training shows how to get a message across to Kaiser Permanente members, co-workers, supervisors — even family members. Put new skills to work in advocating for change, presenting to your team, promoting KP, training others, giving information to members and advancing your career at KP. 

Path to Performance

Levels 1—5

Duration

Usually 90 minutes, but can be customized to suit your team's needs

Who should attend

This in-person training is for unit-based teams, LMP councils, units/departments and other groups.

Ever had a conversation go sideways? Nervous about bringing up a concern with your manager or partner? This workshop will help you identify and prepare for tough discussions.

Training description

Learn how to manage difficult conversations by engaging in role play and using communication tools to help you share your views and create dialogue that leads to understanding and action.    

Path to Performance

Levels 1—5 

Duration

Usually 90 minutes, but can be customized to suit your team's needs.

Who should attend

This in-person training is for unit-based teams, LMP Councils, units/departments and other groups.

Course description

It is critical for steward sponsors and management sponsors to invest in the development of the unit-based team, which will have a long-term impact on the organization, and to learn about tools and resources available to them in their sponsor role. This course is designed to help union, physician and management sponsors discover the benefits of effective sponsorship and how it can help them develop successful, sustainable unit-based teams.

Union and management sponsors will gain an awareness of how their role is critical to the transformation of how the work at Kaiser Permanente is done.
 

Path to Performance

Level 2

Duration

3 hours

Who should attend

This course is intended for participants who are sponsors of unit-based teams. Job categories who should attend labor, management and physician.

Course requirements

Labor Management Partnership Orientation (LMPO)

Course description

The Co-lead workshop exposes co-leads to the skills and knowledge needed to make unit-based teams work together effectively. The skills the co-lead learns are discussed and agreements are made regarding implementation as he/she returns to the unit-based team.

Path to Performance

Levels 2, 3

Duration

Two 4-hour modules (8 hours total)

Who should attend

This course is the first of two workshops intended specifically for all labor, management or physician unit-based team co-leads. The workshop builds on previous LMP orientation training co-leads may have attended. Following this course, co-leads are encouraged to attend the advanced course titled: Team Leadership for Co-leads: Leading Your Team to the Next Level. 

Course requirements

• Labor Management Partnership Orientation
• Labor and management co-leads attend the training together

Requires basic knowledge of:

• Consensus Decision Making (CDM)
• Interest-Based Problem Solving (IBPS)

Course description

During this lesson, you will learn how the Rapid Improvement Model Plus (RIM+) provides you and your team an easy, structured way to quickly identify and test ways to improve your department’s performance.

Path to Performance

Levels 1, 2

Duration

• 4-hour full course; modularized delivery can be scheduled to adapt to teams’ availability (classroom)
• 40 minutes (online)

Who should attend

Labor and management members of a unit-based team.

Course requirements

• Labor Management Partnership Orientation (LMPO)

Course description

Interest-Based Problem Solving offers labor management partners a method to solve problems using a non-adversarial process. This training program provides guidance in the four-step interest-based problem-solving process, along with a simulation exercise that gives participants an opportunity to practice the process.

Path to Performance

Levels 1, 2 

Duration

• 4 hours (classroom)
• 30 minutes (online)

Who should attend

People engaged in problem solving at the unit-based team level up to regional Labor Management Partnership committees should attend this training, along with any union and management staff members working on issue resolution and corrective action. Job categories who can take this class are labor, management and physician members of a unit-based team, Labor Management Partnership and unit-based team consultants, improvement advisers and Union Partnership Representatives.

Course description

The curriculum is planned around bringing a new manager up to speed on the working environment as it relates to partnership and unit-based teams, and how to take their traditional role and seamlessly integrate it in this new environment. The materials in the class are intended to be a takeaway the participants can use later as a valuable reference tool.

Path to Performance

Level 1

Duration

• 4 modules (classroom)
• 60 minutes, approximately (online)

Who should attend

This course is intended for new managers to a partnership environment.

Course requirements

• Labor Management Partnership Orientation (LMPO)
• Completion of course pre-work prior to class

Course description

The training provides an overview of why the Labor Management Partnership is important to Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions and how unit-based teams are transforming Kaiser Permanente. Topics covered are types of unit-based teams, roles and responsibilities of employees on unit-based teams and consensus decision making basics.

Path to Performance

Level 1

Duration

• 4 hours (classroom)
• 45 minutes (online)

Who should attend

Employees within their first 120 days of employment at Kaiser Permanente should attend this course. Job categories who can take this class are labor, management and physician members of unit-based teams.

Course requirements

This is an introductory course. There are no prerequisites.

Everyone has a voice at Kaiser Permanente — and KP needs to hear yours. This empowering training helps teams understand why every voice matters and how to be sure all are heard. 

Training description

Creating a space where workers feel safe speaking up leads to better patient care and a better workplace. This fast-paced, interactive workshop helps frontline workers and managers learn what a speaking-up culture looks like, why it matters and how to manage difficult conversations through role play and group exercises.  

Path to Performance

Levels 1—5

Duration

Usually 90 minutes, but this training can be customized to suit your team's needs.

Who should attend

This in-person training is for unit-based teams, LMP councils, units/departments and other groups.