Practical Practice Management Blog

When you work for a small company, in a small building it can be difficult not to become too personal with your coworkers. Maintaining...

Not all bullies at work are our coworkers, more times than not the bullies we encounter at work are people who come from the outside,...

If you ask any manager they will tell you that it is almost impossible to give an actual accounting of what each employee does, every...

If I have said this once, I have said it 100 times, “when you are working with people you will always have people problems.” There is...

Today, the employee issue I am going to discuss is one that I do not tolerate in my practice.   It is Friday the 13th and this employee...

Today we will continue to look at “why we do not like to listen to some people.”  The negative, complaining coworkers, drip, drip, drip....

Yesterday my blog was about one of the “7 Deadly Sins of Speaking” that Julian Treasure speaks of in his TED talk (see link below). The...

Pepperdine University designed this infograph called “Inside the Mind of a Successful Manager.”  There are some great points on...

As a manager there are times when we must tell an employee they have done something wrong and it should never happen again.  If the...

The role of the office manager is multifaceted and whether you have a staff of one or fifty, there are three key qualities that need to...

I read this interesting article on the CareerBuilder site about being nice and being in a management position.  Not always does being a...

Recently I was gone from the office for a couple of weeks on vacation.  Going on vacation can be a double-edged sword.  You really want...

We all know we need to have some rules at work in order to keep things running smoothly and efficiently.  But what types of rules and how...

Running any type of business is difficult. I personally know this because my husband and I run our medical practice. There are more...

Trust, like respect, has to be earned over time. In the workplace that can be difficult because when someone is hired to do a job you...

“Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part” ~ Proverb Have you ever worked with someone who is always in...

Change is difficult, more difficult for some than others.  If you are one who becomes rigid when changes are mention, this exercise just...

This past weekend at a conference I had the opportunity to present to medical office managers and administrators. There were three of us...

I decided to do a throw back Thursday for today’s post.  This post originally debuted in November 2011 and is still a post that gets hits...

“The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses...