Practical Practice Management Blog

It often happens when an employer or manager notices that an employee has a change in work behavior they fail to address it, hoping it...

Whether you work in a medical office, retail store, or factory, it really doesn’t matter when it comes to needing that 5-minute breather...

I like the phrase “chewable bite-sized portions” and try to apply it to my “To Do” list of things.  The only way to accomplish a lot is...

“The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.” ~Helmut Schmidt I was talking with a small business owner recently about the...

Persistence is a quality of all great leaders.  If they were not persistent no one would want to follow them.  Humans want a leader they...

Happy Friday!  Statistics show that by the time Friday, the end of most work weeks, gets here employees who work Monday through Friday...

Over the next few posts I will cover several traits that great leaders posses.  I hope you will not only enjoy them, but will pick up...

How do you feel about your job?  Do you love it or hate it?  Or is your job just okay and will do for the time being while you figure out...

I posted this story about Charles Plumb’s parachute a long time ago, but felt it was worth repeating as a reminder that it is not us...

I don’t think I am much different from any other manager when it comes to having a difficult conversation with a staff member.  When it...

Are Sue and Annie at it again?  You can always tell because the desk drawers close a little harder, the phone is hung up a more abruptly...

Today is the first day of Spring.  When Spring arrives we start thinking of planting a garden, spring cleaning or getting some outdoor...

Problems are always going to happen. Many times when they do happen we will put the problem under a microscope and magnify it to make it...

Starting each day with a positive outlook would be wonderful, but it is not always easy to do. In fact, when things are not going well in...

Most of us have had a day when our work performance has been less than our best, but this is a rarity not the norm. As a manager or...

Recently, at a conference I was talking with some office managers and the issue of employee accountability kept coming up. It seemed as...

We need more positive people in our workplace and life in general. We can do this if each of us learns to develop a healthy positive...

“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” ~ David Bailey I love to read, and for several years I read...

No matter how hard we may try to provide a positive work environment, stress seems to find a way of slipping in the door. According to...

Have you ever worked with a blamer?  This argumentative, personality is a very difficult one to deal with. People who are like this truly...