Cartoons

Editor's picks: Is firing employees for medical marijuana discrimination? Model Policy: Medical marijuana What's in your employee handbook? … [Read more...] about Marijuana and the workplace

Editor's picks: Personal vs. professional life: setting boundaries Get organized or suffer The plain and practical side of medical office managing … [Read more...] about Work habits

Editor's picks: Why your medical practice needs job descriptions Model Tool: Job description template Potential hires meet with staff as part of job interview … [Read more...] about Hiring based on the job description

Editor's picks: Five realities of effective leadership Is your career headed nowhere? Exceeding expectations or resetting the watermark of leadership … [Read more...] about Leadership traits

Editor's picks: Roundtable discussions focus on "whatever anybody needs help with" Managing a multi-generational medical office staff Do you have 'fatal' thinking flaws? … [Read more...] about Generating new ideas

Editor's picks: Involving staff in marketing generates good ideas and sense of teamwork Profit-boosting ideas welcome at staff meetings 10 tested ways to make your staff meetings more interesting and productive … [Read more...] about Encouraging staff ideas

Editor's picks: Avoid these 5 common but costly wage and hour violations 3 bonus formulas that boost staff productivity Asking for a raise … [Read more...] about Employee bonuses

Editor's picks: Beware of HIPAA-related text messaging risks HIPAA is now striking small offices; the first hit is on mobile devices Staff and remote access: more than patient information is at risk … [Read more...] about Using mobile technology

Editor's picks: How to conduct fair and effective performance reviews Three layers of protection: a handbook, candid reviews, and progressive discipline How to painlessly review a staffer with poor performance … [Read more...] about Conducting performance appraisals

Editor's picks: How technology is going to affect HR processes in 2016 Survey finds digital technology is changing the physician-patient relationship Telemedicine expected to grow at faster rate than previously projected … [Read more...] about Technology forecast