Practice Management
Team motivation can pay off in big ways
August 19th 2004In recent articles I have talked about better record keeping and how to write a job description; both of these articles have one thing in common they require the entire team to be involved. So how do you motivate and keep the team going in the forward direction?
How open should you be about open book management?
August 1st 2004The phrase "open book management" means many different things to different people, and in some arenas makes the staff cringe with fear of the charts posted on the wall and the monthly beatings which occur when they do not reach their assigned quotas.
Create a plan for employee discipline
July 1st 2004Several years ago I attended a seminar entitled "Employee Discipline and Performance Mistakes." Afterwards, I wrote up a simple, step-by-step plan for dealing with common employee discipline problems, like tardiness, not following the dress code or standards of conduct, failing to compete tasks or checklists.
KSU researchers track antibiotics in river waters
May 1st 2004Manhattan, Kan. -Kansas State University (KSU) researchers say recent water samples they've taken in the Kansas River basin indicate that current treatment methods aren't good enough to eliminate common antibiotics in the state's surface waters.