Have you ever wondered how you can help empower your team? A common philosophy in healthcare is that “medicine is a team sport.” This idea comes from the inherent interprofessional collaboration and knowledge required to provide quality patient care. This concept is critical in medicine because it underscores the importance of collaboration of team members with unique skillsets towards a …
How AI Can Help You Manage Your Time More Effectively
In today’s fast-paced world, it can be difficult to stay on top of everything. We are constantly bombarded with information and demands on our time, and it can be hard to know where to start. This is especially true for leaders, who have the added responsibility of managing the time of others. As a practicing physician, MBA student, and new …
6 Tips for Managers to Help Employees Curb New Job Jitters
By Shiela Mie Legaspi, President — Cyberbacker As anyone who has ever started a new job can tell you, being the new kid in town can be nerve-wracking. After all, when you are entering unfamiliar territory, you want to put your best foot forward, and you want your new manager to remember why they hired you. When they are still …
The Role of Senior Leadership in Conflict Resolution When Mistakes Happen in the Workplace — 5 Steps
By Craig Goodliffe, Founder & CEO — Cyberbacker If you’ve led projects or managed teams in any industry, you’ve seen bad decisions and the resulting conflicts they can bring about in the workplace. In fact, research shows us that the average employee in the US makes 118 mistakes every year. One study of 2,000 employees reveals that one in five …
8 Questions You Should Ask Before Going for Your MBA
Deciding to go back to school for your master’s in business administration (MBA) isn’t always a clear choice. While adding to your resume can increase job opportunities and open up doors that might otherwise be closed, a lot can depend on your personal circumstances, what programs are near you and the skills you use in your daily tasks. If you’d …
How AI Is Changing the Face of Leadership
Have you ever been in a leadership position where you were struggling to generate ideas with your team? I remember a time when I was a team leader and we were working on a project, but we were struggling to come up with creative ideas to get our project started. We were running out of time and momentum. We had …
Tips to Increase and Display Your Emotional Intelligence
By Andres Lares, Managing partner at Shapiro Negotiations Institute and co-author of Persuade: The 4-Step Process to Influence People and Decisions Emotional intelligence (EQ), is the ability to notice, understand and manage our own emotions as well as recognize, interpret, and influence the emotions of others. Emotional intelligence is crucial in building and sustaining relationships and influencing others. You will …
Why Optometry, PA, and Pharmacy are Top 100 Jobs, and What to Expect in the Years to Come.
By Julie A. Schornack, OD, Med, president of Marshall B. Ketchum University If you are a leader with a strong sense of compassion and a desire to have an impact on the world around you, then you have likely considered a career in health care. The health care professions are full of leaders—those who thrive under pressure and possess …
The Power of Purpose in the War for Talent
It’s not very often that you can point to a single document released on a specific date as the moment when the rules of business were rewritten. But that’s exactly what happened on August 19, 2019. That’s the date the Business Roundtable (BRT) released its “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation,” which was signed by 181 American chief executives …
Why Envisioning Our Ideal Utopia Isn’t as Naïve as it Might Sound. (In fact it might be exactly what we need).
What comes to mind when you hear the word “Utopia”? Innocence, naiveté, or even a false promise used to mislead people into dystopia? Our wariness of the word is understandable, but we may have swung the pendulum too far in the other direction. The majority of our stories and narratives about the future are dystopian – The Terminator, Black Mirror, …