by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 12, 2008 | A Career in Practice Management
My son called me today and asked me how to ask for a raise. Here is how I told him I’d like an employee to ask me for a raise: Make an appointment with your boss and let her/him know that you’d like to discuss your compensation. Do not e-mail this request...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 11, 2008 | Human Resources, Leadership
A great column in last week’s BusinessWeek by Carmine Gallo gives the reader 4 steps to making difficult conversations with employees and coworkers more productive. I like his steps, but I have four of my own, and I’ll let you choose which works for you....
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 3, 2008 | A Career in Practice Management, Human Resources, Memes
When we first moved to the west coast, I was stunned to find that people routinely take two weeks of vacation off AT ONE TIME! On the east coast, my experience had been that taking more than a week off was reserved for getting married or going to Europe. Amazingly,...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 31, 2008 | Medicare & Reimbursement
Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what to pay attention to. There are projects, staffing, budgets, contracts, technology, Medicare cuts and on and on. While I’m trying to pay close attention to this stuff, along comes a program that I should have paid...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 30, 2008 | Innovation
Under the category of using existing software for new purposes, radiologists at Renji Hospital and Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine are using iTunes to house and sort medical PDFs of images and research documents. Download Squad has the story...
