Difficulty professional conversations: tips to help control emotions
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Difficult professional conversations: tips to help control emotions

ByDavid Kinnane

Many Speech Language Pathologists in private practice are people pleasers, overworked and under-resourced. Disagreements about priorities, caseloads, workloads and feedback are inevitable. They can feel threatening and stressful.  When threatened, many of us switch to “fight or flight” mode, making it hard to think rationally and professionally. We can implement strategies to interrupt this physical…

Retain your speech pathologists with better professional development systems
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Retain your speech pathologists with better professional development systems

ByDavid Kinnane

Retaining talented speech pathologists is both a top priority and challenge for most private practices.  Practice owners can increase staff retention in several ways, e.g. with money, clear career paths and promotion opportunities, and by offering flexible work schedules, e.g. part-time and remote working options.  An often-overlooked retention strategy is on-the-job professional development. It doesn’t…

9 questions speech pathology practice owners and supervisors should ask employees in supervision sessions
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9 questions speech pathology practice owners and supervisors should ask employees in one-to-one supervision sessions

ByDavid Kinnane

9 questions speech pathology practice owners and supervisors should ask employees in one-to-one supervision sessions: If we could improve in any way, how would we do it? What’s the number one problem with our practice? Why? What’s not fun about working here? Who’s doing a great job? Whom do you admire? If you were me,…

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