Practical Practice Management Blog

I don’t know about you, but I am a person who likes “routines.”  I like knowing what I will be doing each morning and a timeline to do it...

The Forbes online site has a great article titled Leadership Is About Emotion.  It does not matter where your leadership role is, at...

It is a rainy, blustery day here in Sonoma County.  As I sit and look out of my home office window I am reminded again of continual...

Far too often we will just stay stuck in a bad situation and do not think outside the box for solutions.  We need to become an “outlier...

Today, I heard one of my coworkers struggling with putting a form inside an envelope and asked him what the problem was.  He said that...

Team building is no easy task and there is no overnight solution to creating an excellent performing team. Whether your team is two or...

Often, people feel they cannot be a leader unless someone gives them the title. This simply is not true. If you believe you are called...

How do you go from knowledge to action? We often find this step difficult and then we stop and fail to achieve what we really desire....

We have multiple choices we make each and every day.  Each one can affect how the day goes and what the outcome may be.  How we perform...

Just when I have achieved one of my goals and think I can take it easy, I realize that I still have a long way to go. Becoming our best...

Last week I wrote about the “less than good” customer service I received from a couple of hotels I stayed in on a recent trip. Today, I...

Good Morning to you all! I just returned from a business trip to Italy, my favorite country to visit. Traveling, no matter how far, is...

Have you ever “slacked off” with your job duties? You know, not really doing what is expected of you? If we were honest with ourselves,...

When working with small business owners and their managers I often will hear that they struggle with getting their staff to really own...

When was the last time you asked your coworker if they needed help?  When was the last time that you told your boss or coworkers thank...

There are several key “ingredients” that make up great leaders in the workplace.  One for certain is “persistence.”  Although it is an...

Change is inevitable whether it is sudden or planned, it can be difficult to go through. For many when change happens at work and it...

Happy Monday! Since we are going to work today why don’t we try to make the day a better one for our coworkers? There are so many things...

The leader(s) of a business need to know the vision for the company and also the vision they have for themselves.  They need to keep...

At a recent meeting I was talking with a couple of office managers and the topic of employee policy manuals came up.  I asked them if...