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7 Tips for Tracking Savings From Team Projects

Submitted by cassandra.braun on Tue, 03/11/2014 - 16:51
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Wondering if your improvements have any dollar signs attached to them? Learn some tips for jump-starting your team's thinking about the financial benefits of performance improvement.

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7 Tips for Determining Projects' Financial Impact

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8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
Unit-based team co-leads and members

Best used:
Post this tip sheet on a team bulletin board, or use it as a starting point to figure out how to determine the savings and/or cost-avoidance of performance improvement efforts.

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7 Essential Tips to Help Keep Patients Safe

Submitted by Jennifer Gladwell on Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:37
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Looking for a patient safety project but don't know where to start? These seven tips will help get you started.

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7 Essential Tips to Help Keep Patients Safe

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Intended audience:
Unit-based team members, co-leads, sponsors and consultants in all departments that care for patients

Best used:
Share these tips with you team to help plan patient safety improvement projects or review effective patient safety practices.

 

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3 Essential Tips for Workplace Safety

Submitted by Kellie Applen on Wed, 01/08/2014 - 06:24
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These three successful practices are helping teams eliminate the causes of work-related injuries and create a more open, healthy and safe work environment.

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3 Essential Tips for Workplace Safety

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8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
Team members, managers

Best used:
Discuss these successful practices for building a safer work environment In meetings and team huddles.

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10 Essential Tips for Workplace Safety

Submitted by Paul Cohen on Tue, 01/07/2014 - 15:48
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These 10 successful practices are helping teams eliminate the causes of work-related injuries and create a more open, healthy and safe work environment.

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10 Essential Tips for Workplace Safety

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8.5" x 11", 1 page

Intended audience:
Team members, managers

Best used:
In meetings and team huddles, discuss these tips for successful practices to build a safer work environment.

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Creating a Process Map

Submitted by Beverly White on Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:33
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This two-page process map tool will help your UBT identify all the steps in its workflow.

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Two pages, 8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
UBT sponsors, consultants and co-leads

Best used:
This walkthrough will help your UBT understand a process map and use it identify all the steps in its workflow.

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PICK Your Priorities

Submitted by tyra.l.ferlatte on Thu, 01/02/2014 - 13:52
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The PICK chart tool is used to help teams prioritize their performance improvement work.

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PICK helps teams prioritize performance improvement work.

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8.5" x 11" 

Intended audience:
UBT sponsors, consultants and co-leads

Best used:
The tool helps determine which projects to focus energy on first—starting with work that has high impact and is relatively easy to do. Use the four categories to help a team set priorities.

 

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Performance Improvement Glossary

Submitted by Paul Cohen on Tue, 11/05/2013 - 14:00
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PI, anyone? A little PDSA? Performance improvement tools work. But it helps to speak the language. Here's how.

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Performance Improvement Glossary

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Intended audience:
Unit-based team members and leaders

Best used:
These 14 definitions of key performance improvement terms and concepts can help your team plan and implement a project. 

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10 Tips for Performance Improvement in Partnership

Submitted by Paul Cohen on Tue, 11/05/2013 - 13:59
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KP has powerful tools for performance improvement. Unit-based teams have the ability to launch and sustain change. Here are 10 ways to bring together these unique tools, teams and techniques to better serve KP members and patients.

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10 Tips for Performance Improvement in Partnership

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One page 

Intended audience:
Unit-based team co-leads, sponsors and consultants; performance improvement advisers; union partnership representatives

Best used: 
These tips can help you ensure your team utilizes all available performance improvement tools and techniques in partnership.

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See a glossary of performance improvement terms

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10 Essential Tips for Union Co-leads

Submitted by Paul Cohen on Tue, 09/03/2013 - 17:00
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Unit-based teams’ union co-leads can help their teams transform the care experience for KP members, patients—and caregivers. These tips can build the skills to do just that.

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10 Essential Tips for Union Co-leads

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Intended audience:
Union co-leads, sponsors and stewards; unit-based team consultants

Best used:
Effective union co-leads share tips for working effectively and engaging team members.

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10 Essential Tips for Managing Change

Submitted by Julie on Tue, 08/06/2013 - 12:20
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Explaining changes ahead of time, enlisting support from your team and celebrating success are just a few ideas of how to manage changes, big and small.

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10 Essential Tips for Managing Change

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Intended audience:
UBT co-leads and team members

Best used:
As a starting point to acknowledge resistance to change and to brainstorm ideas on how to make the changes we choose more effective.

 

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