ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 1/4/2022
Checkmate! Learning how to play your best offensive strategy
With the new year come new possibilities and new opportunities. Today, I would like to take a moment to share with you an important strategy for building momentum for whatever goals and objectives you have made up your mind to achieve this year. - 12/14/2021
All change occurs from the inside out
If you are anything like me, you are now getting to the point where you have a list of things that you'd like to change. And given that we are coming up on the New Year, you may have quite a list of things that you would put in the category of “New Year’s Resolutions.” - 12/7/2021
You get what you get. Time to up your expectations
The playground of life can be a harsh teacher. The kids on the playground can be so blunt. As a result, we develop little pieces of supposed wisdom to help us through these turbulent times. Phrases like “sticks and stones may break my bones” or “I’m rubber and you’re glue.” - 11/30/2021
My best pharmacy teacher
Perhaps you've heard the expression before that experience is the best teacher? I know I have, and I would even suggest that I subscribe to it. - 11/23/2021
The "I spy" principle in pharmacy – what you look for is what you find
As leaders we have all sorts of things coming at us all the time. And if we are honest with one another, the things coming at us are often not good. - 11/16/2021
Pharmacy teams and the lesson of the chain
A few weeks ago, I shared the lesson of the rubber band. The rubber band teaches us that we need some tension in our lives to do and be our best. There is also a lesson we can learn from the chain. - 11/9/2021
Time out! What to do when things go wrong in the middle of your day
We need to have some mechanism to call a timeout. Some way to break the momentum of an object going in motion the wrong direction. We need some way to interrupt and break the circuit. - 11/2/2021
Pharmacy, self-care and the lesson of the flight attendant
Are you taking care of yourself, so that you can take care of others? Maybe you are, but it isn’t enough. If that's the case, find out what others are doing for self-care. You may very well need several items in your bag of tricks to take care of yourself. - 10/26/2021
Are you battling burnout?
A topic that is coming up all the more often is burnout. As leaders, we cannot ignore it. We may even be going through burnout ourselves. As we continue this thread of leading in difficult times, let's take a few minutes to begin to wrap our arms around this subject. - 10/19/2021
Game on! Get ready to compete in the infinite game of pharmacy
Ah, games. Games can be fun, but they can also be frustrating. They can be frustrating when you do not know the rules.