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What Makes a Goal SMART?
Format:
PDF
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Unit-based team members, co-leads and consultants
Best used:
Inspire team members to set SMART goals and avoid "not smart" goals in pursuing performance improvement.
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Format:
PDF
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Unit-based team members, co-leads and consultants
Best used:
Inspire team members to set SMART goals and avoid "not smart" goals in pursuing performance improvement.
Format:
PowerPoint slide
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
UBT consultants, UBT co-leads and members
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This simple matrix helps teams set performance improvement goals for the year. Use as a working document in unit-based team meetings or training sessions.
Format:
PowerPoint slide
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Frontline teams, managers, sponsors, physicians
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This one-page slide shows how the Oncology unit-based team in Redwood City boosted its low phone scores. Save on to your computer to include in meetings or presentations as an example of UBT performance around telephone service.
Format:
PDF (color and black and white)
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Frontline employees, managers and staff
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This poster, for use on bulletin boards in break rooms and other staff areas, features a surgery team that found a way to make waiting less painful.
Format:
Word document
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Frontline employees and stakeholders
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Use this fill-in-the blanks template to promote your UBT fair. Fill out template and download customized poster or flier to hand out at meetings or post on bulletin boards. Add details such as day, time and location and any special guests and activities planned for the fair. Post fliers in breakrooms, union halls and other places where frontline employees gather.
For more tools, please visit the How-To Guide: UBT Fair in a Box.
Format:
PPT, 11 slides
Intended audience:
Frontline staff, managers, and physicians; regional and facility leadership.
Best used:
Unit-based teams can use this PowerPoint template to share their successful practices at a UBT fair or virtual gathering. This is an alternative to creating a storyboard. The template guides teams to insert key information (such as SMART goals, small tests of change, metrics, and learnings) onto each of the 11 slides for a quick and easy way to create a presentation for a UBT fair or similar event.
For more tools, please visit the How-To Guide: UBT Fair in a Box.
Format:
PPT, 10 slides
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Unit-based teams
Best used:
This presentation helps teams design, construct and display storyboards for a UBT fair.
For more tools, please visit the How-To Guide: UBT Fair in a Box.
Format:
PDF
Size:
4 pages, 8.5” x 11”
Intended audience:
UBT consultants, public affairs staff, regional and facility-level LMP staff, and others involved in planning a UBT fair
Best used:
Download and review this detailed guide as the first step in planning a UBT fair at your region or facility. Topics include assembling your committee, setting the date and location that will attract the most people to your event, mobilizing teams and presenters, and ensuring your fair goes off without a hitch. Includes space to write in due dates and names of staff assigned to each task.
For more tools, please visit the How-To Guide: UBT Fair in a Box.
Format:
PDF
Size:
8.5” x 11” (landscape)
Intended audience:
UBT consultants, public affairs staff, regional and facility-level LMP staff, and others involved in planning a UBT fair
Best used:
Rely on this six-month timeline to keep the planning committee for a UBT fair on track, with each category of tasks arrayed on overlapping bars. Print out and use this timeline when you begin planning your UBT fair and throughout your preparations to keep you on track for a successful event. Save it on your computer for access to the links to all the items in the “UBT fair in a box” toolkit on the LMP website. Use with the companion planning guide, which details individual tasks.
For more tools, please visit the How-To Guide: UBT Fair in a Box.
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.