9 ideas to increase engagement
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9 ideas to increase engagement and reduce burn out by designing work your team will love

If less than 20% of your work consists of things you love to do, you are far more likely to burn out. Practice owners should design work with love in mind: Source: Buckingham, M. (2022). Designing Work That People Love. Harvard Business Review, June 2022.   This infographic also appears in a recent issue of Banter Booster,…

Early Career Tips for Australian speech pathologists and students considering a career in private practice
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12 early career tips for Australian speech pathologists and students considering a career in private practice

About a quarter of current Australian speech language pathologists (SLPs) joined the profession after May 2019; and about half of all SLPs work in private practice.  If you are an early career SLP in private practice – or if you are an SLP student considering private practice as a graduate – here are some early…

Health Care Complaints Commission: 13 tips for speech pathologists
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Australian speech pathologists: 13 things you should know about health care complaints and the Health Care Complaints Commission

As healthcare workers, we share the responsibility to ensure we are delivering health services in a professional, safe, and ethical manner. This week, we attended a very practical workshop hosted by Tony Kofkin and his colleagues from the Health Care Complaints Commission NSW (the ‘Commission’) to better understand the role of the Commission and its…

Speech pathologists in private practice: do you know about these free resources?
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Speech pathologists in private practice: do you know about these free resources?

As a profession, speech pathologists are generous to a fault. I’ve discovered that most speech pathologists (including very senior academics and over-worked clinicians) are delighted to share their knowledge with those of us in private practice. The key challenge is connecting the dots: carving out the time to find and filter the research, and to…

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