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Allied health providers: is your employee development program muddle-headed? 

The big picture: Quality allied health care providers invest in employee development for lots of reasons, including to execute their business strategy, strengthen culture, help employees grow, meet compliance obligations, and to innovate. Sometimes, these goals conflict, and it’s important to be clear with employees about what you are trying to achieve, and why.     Zoom…

Professionalism in private practice
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For speech pathologists in private practice, professionalism has never been more important

For Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) in private practice, professionalism has never been more important. Here’s why: “Professionalism” is a combination of knowledge, skills, trustworthiness, and altruism found in those who commit themselves to a life of service to others.  Because of our knowledge and expertise, SLPs have social prestige, asymmetrical power over clients and families, and…

Speech pathologists: how to talk about what you do for a living without being “salesy”
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Speech pathologists: how to talk about what you do for a living without being “salesy”

“I need a blood test”* Lots of people have never met a speech pathologist. Some have a rough idea of what we do, often along the lines of: “Oh, you work with kids with speech impediments, right?” Others have absolutely no idea. And fair enough. There are loads of professions I know little or nothing…

Turning Pro – Part 3 – 9 final tips to launch and run a professional speech pathology practice
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Turning Pro – Part 3 – 9 final tips to launch and run a professional speech pathology practice

In a world that, increasingly, seems to reward wannabes, amateurs and charlatans, “Turning Pro” in any field of work is hard.  Staying Pro is even harder. In this, our third and final instalment, we give speech pathologists 9 more tips to do just that. Here are Parts 1 and 2 to check out. On with the tips!…

29 tips to Turn Pro and improve your private practice – Part 2
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29 tips to Turn Pro and improve your private practice – Part 2

So, having implemented each of the professional private practice habits discussed in Part 1, it’s now time to step it up a gear! So here are nine more habits to improve the professionalism of your private practice.  Again, these are based on Steven Pressfield‘s excellent tome, with practical examples of what I have done to…

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