Leader
Managing My Team
Great leaders take time to set the stage so team members can perform at their best.
Here you have access to a wide range of resources to support your team in their day-to-day actions for performance management, change, retention, and engagement.
Select from the tabs in the menu below to explore tools, instructor-led webinars, and self-paced learnings that help you manage your team.
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Change Management
Proactively manage change and help my team become more agile and better equipped to sustain change.
Instructor-Led Webinars
Learn more about this webinar and our other offerings by visiting our Instructor-Led Webinars page.
LEADER DEVELOPMENT
Successfully Leading Change
We experience change every day. As leaders, it’s our responsibility to help our teams adapt to change. In this session, you will have the opportunity to use two tools to help you plan, prepare, and lead your team through a change. This session will work best if you bring an upcoming change your team will be experiencing so that you can work through the webinar.
Upcoming Session:
Thursday, October 19, 2023: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Information and Resources
We want our leaders to have the skills, support, and confidence to make transformational changes. Our framework of tools and processes can help you proactively manage change and help our organization become more agile and better equipped to sustain change. Find all of our resources on our Change Management Page.
Change Community of Practice
The purpose of the Organizational Change Community of Practice (CoP) is to build a network of change practitioners throughout the organization. This group meets every other month.
Learn more about the Change Community of Practice
Are you interested in attending the Change CoP?
- Email odl@fairview.org for an invite
Attend Change CoP meetings to:
- Gain skills to be more effective change practitioners, supporters and change owners
- Spend focused time applying skills and tools to actual changes
- Build competencies that will deliver real results to the organization
- Learn from one another in peer-to-peer relationship
- Contribute to the strengthening of M Health Fairview’s organizational change capabilities
As a member of the CoP bring to each meeting:
- A deeper interest about how to plan for, support, implement and sustain change
- An open mind
- An understanding of our organization’s approach to change
- Ideas and additional resources and tools that lend themselves to a chance conversation
- Willingness to be a change advocate and early adopter
Self-Paced Learning
Explore the online courses listed below to learn more about change. Use the Reflection and Action Guide to plan how to include what you’ve learned into practice.
Use this reflection guide with your on-demand course to put your learning into practice.
ADAPT to Change: 10 minutes
ADAPT to Change is a course designed to help learners confronted with challenging changes to use a positive attitude and strategy to adapt and thrive. Learn to ADAPT to help make difficulties easier to manage. In this course, psychologist Eve Ash shows that practicing skills of adaptation is a better way for managing reactions to change.
Agility in Times of Change: Succeeding in a Changing World: 15 minutes
Leaders must focus on developing their ability to be more agile and strategic – within an environment of constant change. They should explore tools that can be leveraged to achieve the goal. Good agile leaders make sure that their teams identify the desired long-term goals, and then work backward from these to identify all the conditions that must be in place for the goals to occur.
Change Management: 50 minutes
Discover a tactical approach to successfully lead your organization through periods of change with this insightful course covering effective change management strategies. You’ll learn how to build a practical plan for change and focus on the internal and psychological transition factors to minimize disruption to productivity and employee resistance. By the end of the course, you will know how to institute a results-oriented approach to maintain momentum and see changes through to a satisfactory conclusion.
Courageous Change: Succeeding in a Changing World: 30 minutes
Are you finding it challenging to overcome obstacles? Can you persevere during times of trial and difficulty? Almost every instance of leadership that pushes us toward progress involves change. This new eLearning course geared towards managers helps learners quickly understand and respond change in the workplace via the ACTION model.
Employee Engagement Survey
Understand your expectations as a leader, encourage participation, interpret data, and share team results.
Information and Resources
Our employee engagement survey is an important tool to help leaders understand how engaged their teams are. Visit our Employee Engagement Survey page for more information about how to share results and set goals with your team.
Survey Tools for Leaders
Check out our most commonly used resources for leaders below.
Power BI Report
Track your team’s employee engagement survey participation in Power BI.
WTW
Find current and previous year’s results by visiting our survey vendor, WTW.
Self-Paced Learning
Learn more about you can approach employee engagement as a leader from these self-directed courses.
Use this reflection guide with your on-demand course to put your learning into practice.
Employee Engagement: What is it? 5 minutes
What does employee engagement mean and how can you tell if your team is engaged? This module covers everything you need to know.
Employee Recognition: 8 minutes
Underperforming employees are not the only members of your team that need attention. This Employee Recognition course explains how to keep workers already meeting expectations motivated and productive. Launch Course
Onboarding Strategies
Provide a warm welcome for new or transferring team members with the following resources.
Your Onboarding Resources
Resources will automatically open in your web browser. For the best experience, we highly suggest saving the resources to your computer and opening them in Adobe or Preview.
Leader Guide – New Team Member Onboarding: Your one stop resource for everything you need to know about onboarding, including an explanation on roles, considerations for remote workers, a guide to onboarding resources (also linked below), and learning opportunities.
First 90 Days Manager Checklist: A comprehensive checklist of actions to take during your new team member’s first 90 days of employment. The checklist is organized by pre-start, first day, first 30 days, and first 90 days.
First 90 Days New Leader Checklist: Are you a new leader? Use this checklist to plan for your first 90 days in your role at Fairview. Lists include actions around human resources, operations, technology, scheduling, connections with others, and more.
Pre-Start
Welcome Letters – fillable welcome templates to send via email or US mail.
General Welcome Letter Template
Remote Worker Welcome Letter Template
Buddy Guide – assign a ‘buddy’ to help your new hire acquainted to their role and the organization.
Trainer Guide – assign a trainer to help teach task and get to know the work.
First 2 Weeks
New Employee Welcome Page – first day orientation webinar link and information for completing required lessons.
Weeks 1 & 2 Schedule Template – customizable excel template to outline the first couple weeks (file will automatically go into your download folder).
Team Member Questionnaire – a set of eight questions designed to get to know your new hire. We highly suggest completing this questionnaire yourself and having other team members as well.
First 30 Days
30-Day Check-In Page – instructions and information to guide your 30-day check-in and document in Talent Connect.
One-on-One Meeting Strategies – effective strategies and example agendas for holding regular 1:1 meetings.
First 90 Days
90 Day Check-In Page – instructions and information to guide your 90-day check-in and document in Talent Connect.
Start Stop Continue Worksheet – activity designed to gather feedback from your new team member.
Onboarding Learning Opportunities
LMS Modules
Get to know more about Fairview’s Onboarding philosophy and process with the following four on-demand LMS modules:
Onboarding 1.0
Creating a Successful Onboarding Experience
Onboarding 2.0
Preparing for your New Team Member
Onboarding 3.0
System Orientations for New Team Members
Onboarding 4.0
Department Orientation & 90 Day Onboarding
Self-Paced On-Demand Learning
If this is your first time accessing one of our courses, you will need to enter your Fairview employee username and password.
Onboarding Tools
15 minutes
Plan for a successful onboarding experience that will set new team members up to thrive within your company.
Onboarding Remote Workers
10 minutes
Develop various strategies for connecting remote workers with your other team members in robust and meaningful ways.
Onboarding: Days 30-90
5 minutes
What you can do during the first 30 to 90 days to successfully onboard and help ensure your new hire stays long term.
Performance Management
Learn more about the performance review process.
Our philosophy is to regularly engage team members to create a strong continuous feedback loop to coach, learn, and recognize performance. Talent Connect is the system that supports this process. Below, you’ll see a few key Performance Management resources. Find all of our resources on the Performance Management page.
Find all of our Performance Management related resources including information about annual reviews, 360 feedback, and goal setting from our Performance Management page.
Talent Connect
Talent Connect is the system we use to support our Performance Management processes.
Talent Connect Resources
Performance Review User Guide
This interactive user guide shows screen by screen instructions for how to complete the performance review in Talent Connect, including the self-evaluation and alternate review process.
360 Development Feedback User Guide
This interactive user guide shows screen by screen instructions for how to complete the 360 Development Feedback form in Talent Connect.
Retention Strategies
Invest in your talent by creating a warm welcome, sharing expectations, engaging your team members, and aligning individual contributions to organizational goals.
Talent Retention Resources
Browse through the resources to help boost engagement and retain talent.
Discover effective strategies on how to prepare and hold regular 1:1 meetings with your team members. This resource also includes example questions and an agenda to help guide your meetings.
Gather regular feedback from your team members on what to start, stop, and continue doing with this worksheet.
Gain insight into what team members love about working for Fairview and help foster growth, engagement, and retention with this informal stay interview guide.
Talking With Your Team Members About Internal Career Development
To advance a culture of team member growth and development, a core function of a leader is to have aspirational conversations that help team members to grow within the organization.
Use the following resources to guide your conversations.
Leader Conversation Guide - Internal Development
This guide is designed to help you have conversations with your team members about internal career development and professional growth within Fairview.
Resource Guide - Internal Development
Share this resource with your team members which outlines internal opportunites and resources to help them develop their career within Fariview.