Practical Practice Management Blog

Happy Monday to you all! This week in a private coaching group with Top Practices Virtual Practice Management Institute I will begin a...

We all have goals and dreams, but many times we just have thoughts of them and although we may never admit it we really do not think we...

I am one-hundred percent an advocate for happiness at work; I try to promote it each day when I am there. If I had to work in a place or...

If I had to come up with one word to describe my two decades of being a medical office manager and team leader it would be,...

During our current working conditions and so many people being laid off, I have found several employers that are “Essential” who had to...

As I posted earlier this week, we are all in the midst of change.  Change of some sort, at work, from school, at home, in relationships,...

I work in a private practice medical office and over the past 5-6- weeks things have changed a lot. I am sure you probably are...

Happy Wednesday to you all!  I have been blogging for 10 years now and it has been such a great adventure as I have met many of you.  Now...

As many of you know I have been a Practice Management Consultant for many years.  I also work with my partners Rem Jackson and Dr. Peter...

Working with small businesses I will often hear the employees say that they do not feel that their supervisors really care about them. ...

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

Working in the Healthcare Industry, it is common for physicians and their staff to become stressed in everyday situations in the practice....

Since opening our new medical practice this year I have had the wonderful opportunity to revisit our office policy manual. It is a fact...

According to a Gallup poll of more 1 million employed U.S. workers, it was concluded that the number 1 reason people quit their job is a...

We have three new employees at our practice (all under six months of hire date), which has caused me to do a lot of reflexing on our...

Empowerment is a term regarding a business management style where managers give staff members the power to make certain decisions within...

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 talking to a young business owner recently she told me that she was frustrated at how hard it was to own a business, run a business...

I have been doing some work on gaining clarity in some areas of my life lately and I remembered an interesting conversation I once had...

Hiring new staff members is not one of my favorite things to do.  Why?  Because it costs money (lots of it), and if you make a wrong...