Layered Pharmacy Leadership
Blogs
- 1/31/2023
3 steps to solving your hiring puzzle
Solving hiring in pharmacy will first mean finding more candidates without a sizeable investment of our time. We need to automate hiring into a process that isolates precisely what we need, finds more puzzle pieces and brings them through a consistent and well-practised screening-interviewing-placement pipeline. - 1/24/2023
Pharmacists have teleprompters for brains
Relative to the history of our profession, only more recently have pharmacists been pushed to invent from scratch through prescribing. This is a new mental model, where we use the same analysis but then move on to create the solution instead of select it from what is put in front of us. - 1/18/2023
5 steps to help pharmacists validate negative thoughts and turn them around
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is something pharmacists recommend. Scientific literature proves its place as a first-line therapy in mental health. The principle is that our thoughts influence our feelings, and our feelings influence our behaviours. - 1/10/2023
Plan your perfect morning before opening the pharmacy
As pharmacists we can’t live like students in an adult world. We need to invest in life structure because life as a pharmacist is longer than a four-year degree. In order to show up for our patients, staff and business while managing life and family, we need to last. We need to take care of ourselves so that we can take care of others. - 12/14/2022
Where's the green light for predictable pharmacy?
Your job is to create the systems and structures paired with people and resources that shift the balance of your Rx count as far to the predictable side as possible. - 12/7/2022
Your non-lame pharmacy succession plan
The right succession plan isolates your strengths and weaknesses, or depth, while putting you in control of your destiny. Since you are in the driver’s seat, you will have confidence in knowing there is a plan that is onto paper and out of your head. - 11/30/2022
Isolating your pharmacy leader identity
We love superheroes and villains because they are unique in their clear identity. We understand their strengths, their weaknesses and what makes them special. Why should you be any different? - 11/23/2022
No longer invisible: shifting from do-er to thinker as a pharmacist
In any given hour the always accessible, no-appointment needed, world’s number one trusted health care provider has phones ringing, patients in the aisles looking for recommendations, patients waiting in the counselling room for vaccines, deliveries arriving. - 11/16/2022
Pharmacists are like camels but they can't 'hold it' forever
Yes, without genuine washroom breaks it’s true that pharmacists can hold water like camels, but there is a more important similarity: they can both carry significant loads on their backs. - 11/9/2022
Why wearing a labcoat doesn't make you a pharmacy leader
From the first day I became a pharmacy manager 15 years ago now, I wondered what the difference was in flipping my nametag from Pharmacist yesterday to Pharmacy Manager today. - 11/2/2022
6 things a pharmacy manager should measure (but usually doesn’t)
Your boss might not make these metrics mandatory but that doesn’t mean they don’t provide insightful data into your store-level operation. Just like individual practitioners, pharmacies themselves have identities. What's yours? - 10/26/2022
4 top U-turn decisions pivotal to your pharmacy practice
A U-turn is a manoeuvre to completely change direction. For most decisions in life, changing direction goes without much notice or consequence. Most of life’s day-to-day decisions don’t carry much consequence if we get them wrong. But there are 4 choices that carry much more weight.