Practical Practice Management Blog

With continued surveys showing that employee morale is on a steady downward spiral we need to take a good look at what might be causing...

I was on my lunch hour and of course the post office did have a bit of a line (I expected this as a lot of people try to take care...

“Respect cannot be bought or learned, it must be earned” It would be great if we always could work with people who our personalities...

If issues arise and you need to remind them of their tasks you want to handle it in a manner that shows you mean business, but also you...

I always thought the two were pretty much the same thing until I realized once when I thought I was stressed out that it was really...

Now there are many reasons that people do not get enough sleep so that they feel refreshed for the work day, some are personally chosen,...

~Charles R. Swindol If it is not today or tomorrow, you can pretty much guarantee that the day after you will be faced with some sort of...

After 16 years of office management I have made my staff realize that I do not have a magic wand, and that many times I alone cannot fix...

Being a parent of adult children, I thought about what it would have been like if I would have been a reactive parent as my children were...

A few staff members had a little free time on Tuesday and asked if they should start packing things up to get them ready to move out so...

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

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

The word should for many people is a negative one, used for blame (shame) and lack of effort or responsibility to complete a task.  It is...

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...

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...

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...

I have never really thought of having a personal mission statement for me, but in a way I do have one by the way I live and what I do.  I...

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...

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