Practical Practice Management Blog

I am sure your question as was mine, what type of interaction needed to take place in that 5 minutes in order to make a difference to...

I want our patients to feel cared for and comfortable.  I also want them to know that we are a business with high standards that we will...

Taking time for truthful reflection on key areas such as dependability, responsibility, and ethics should be a daily task.  Make a...

The topic of goal achieving is always popping up under “business management” search engine optimization.   To be a good manager you not...

I explained that apparently they didn’t make the envelopes that we had been purchasing for the past several years anymore and that these...

Whenever you try something new that you never thought you could do it makes you feel really good inside.  I remember a few years ago when...

The electricity had gone out in the past, so why was this so different?  About six months ago our medical office went paperless, which...

What a sad situation, it seems as though this manager does not know “how to tell when an employee is unhappy”.  Since I talked to her I...

I heard a story once about a group of college students that were divided into two groups and shown a 10 second clip of a professor who...

The main points that I want to address is that when I walked into the office the only person I saw was the manager behind this big...

The kicker is, (meaning I could have kicked myself) I have an external hard drive on my desk top that I normally back up to, but I have...

1. Do you fully understand your role at work? Now you might think this is a dumb question because you know what you were hired to do, but...

Take a few minutes today to ponder what your work environment looks like and feels like to others, those you serve, and ask yourself...

To effectively lead you need to have a clear direction of where you (and your business) are going so that you may take your employees...

The Butterfly Story A man found a cocoon for a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several...

Leading Employees Through Organizational Change

1. The changes that were being made took the employees out of their comfort zone.  They had been so use to doing things one way that it...

Help To Break Bad Habits 4/17/13 #badhabits #officemanagement #slangwordsatwork #soundlikeaprofessional #breakbadlanguagehabits...

Terminating Insubordinate Employees #insubordination #angryemployees #officemanagement #practicalmanagementofficemanagementteamwork...

People need a vision in order to know their purpose.  If the office does not have a vision for what it is doing and where it is going the...