Format:
PDF

Size:
Five pages, 8.5" x 11" 

Intended audience:
Frontline teams, managers, senior leaders and physicians, and health care leaders and policy makers

Best used:
Share this Cornell study with teams, colleagues and all parties interested in new approaches to health care delivery and workplace effectiveness—and in learning about the benefits of labor-management partnerships.

Format:
PDF (color and black and white) and DOC

Size:
16 pages, 8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
UBT co-leads and team members

Best used:
This workbook, developed by LMP Communications for storytelling workshops, features simple steps to outline your story. Use it to spread best practices by unit-based teams through presentations, storyboards and newsletters. Download, print out and share with your teams.

Format: PDF

Size: 13 pages (8.5" x 11") 

Intended audience: People interested in learning about the Labor Management Partnership

Best used: To educate interested individuals about the basic how and why of partnership

Description: This 13-page brochure, published in 2000, explains how and why the Labor Management Partnership was born and what we gain by working in partnership, as well as tips on how to work in partnership. 

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:
PDF

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience: 
Meeting planners, team leaders and support staff

Best used: 
Inspire your team to hold better, healthier meetings with these tips on activities, snacks and green products.

Format:
PDF (15 or 3 pages)

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience: 
UBT sponsors, co-leads and members; KP and union leaders

Best used: 
To help unit-based team leaders and sponsors—and UBT members—better understand five elements that enable team performance and development.

Two options for reading:

• The 15-page study by Rutgers University, Johns Hopkins and Kaiser Permanente researchers identifies five key enablers of unit-based team performance and development: leadership; line of sight; team cohesion; processes and methods; and infrastructure and support. The report includes examples of successful team practices in each area. It includes an executive summary and conclusions.
• The 3-page executive summary of the study provides an overview of the findings, focusing on the five enablers of high performance. A good choice for those wanting a quick takeaway of these issues and for teams wanting to address issues raised by the study.

This eight-page summary of the 2010 National Agreement focuses on several key areas including:

• The economic package
• Performance improvement
• The Performance Sharing Program (PSP)
• Attendance
• Workforce Planning and Development

You can also download the full 2010 National Agreement.

Format:
PDF 

Size:
8.5" x 11" (7 pages)

Intended audience:
Workers, managers and physicians working in partnership

Best used: Learn about the key provisisions of the 2005 National Agreement.

Format:
PDF

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
Managers, Workplace Safety staff and unit-based teams working on reducing the number of workplace injuries

Best used:
Share this 11-page presentation of proven safety practices at meetings, in huddles and at other gatherings to accelerate improvement in workplace safety. 

Format:
PDF

Size:
66 pages

Intended audience:
Managers; UBT consultants, co-leads and sponsors

Best used:
This case study analyzes the evolution of the Labor Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente from its inception in 1997 to June 2002 and identifies a set of critical issues and challenges the parties will face in moving forward.