Practical Practice Management Blog

Do you have a hard time achieving goals you really want?  I have often wondered if we really want to obtain a goal, why is it that we...

Maintaining a positive attitude is a choice, but it is much easier to have a positive attitude when your work and your life are going...

When speaking with some friend the other day one of them expressed being upset by the fact that at her company they are using the term...

Most conversations at work are not speaker to listener. They end up being speaker to speaker. People talk at each other, reacting...

Today, on my coaching call with members of the Virtual Practice Management Institute I talked about workplace/business visions.  The main...

Last week I posted about our personal growth mindset and how developing it is done in small steps.  Today, I want to address the managers...

Good morning! Today I wanted share a couple of my favorite John Wooden quotes with you. Mr. Wooden was such an inspiring man, yet so...

I think most of us want to continue to grow in our personal and work life. There is much to be said for stretching your mind and...

So often we set health goals for ourselves and then fail to keep them.  Why does this happen?  Most of the time it is because we set...

A common mistake business owners and managers make is thinking what motivates one person on their team will motivate everyone on the...

We hear a lot about being Mindful and how it is so beneficial, but as simple as the steps are to becoming more mindful it is a practice...

All employers want great employees. Yet it seems that a lot of the employers I speak to their number one issue is employee problems. What...

This is a great story I heard over a decade ago, but continue to use it when I speak at conferences to drive the point of delivering...

When you are in the job search arena and desperately in need of landing a job it is hard to take the time to ask the right questions to...

According to a Centers for Disease Control and Preventions survey 40% of Americans get less than the recommended 7-9 hours of sleep each...

When working with a client recently they expressed they were having some difficulty working with a person whom they outsourced some...

When was the last time that you devoted time to learning something new? Maybe it was a skill or possibly knowledge to understand...

“Start your week off right by being grateful and then letting someone know that you are thankful for having them in your life” Such a...

I was working with an office manager the other day and she happened to mention that she was struggling with a feeling of being left out...