Do You Need to Keep Employees Engaged? Listen to Them!
What makes a good leader? There are many possible answers to this question, but a good leader who is a good listener has the potential to be a great leader. Listening and Leadership When leaders do all the talking, they miss out on valuable input. They don’t know why employees might be unhappy, what ideas […]
How Soft Skills Help You Get a Job in the Medical Field
Do you relate well to others? Are you patient? Empathetic? If so, you possess some very important soft skills. “Soft skills relate to the way employees relate to and interact with other people.” Soft skills, also called people skills, are differentiated from hard skills, which are “teachable abilities or skill sets that are easy to […]
Manage Stress with Work-Life Balance
There are 168 hours in a week. If a person spends 45 hours at work, that leaves 123 hours. Subtracting eight hours per night for sleep leaves 67 hours for everything else. That sounds good, especially because for most people it outweighs the amount of time spent at work. However, there are many demands on […]
Want to Succeed? Learn to Go with the Flow
In healthcare, there’s no such thing as a typical workday. One shift may be a little chaotic, while another may be full of unexpected problems or even emergencies. No one knows exactly what may happen from one minute to the next. What’s the best way to survive – and even succeed – in that type […]