Are there times when we lead others from more than one direction? More specifically, when leading our patients, what direction are we leading? To me, or at least the me of several years ago, I would think it was leading down.
Pharmacists have the skills, knowledge and most frequent contact with patients and can make significant impacts on their lives. Shingles prevention is one of the most impactful preventive interventions pharmacists can make for at-risk patients.
Bold prediction: Pharmacists will grow in medical responsibility and clinical expertise. But while complexity (and exhaustion) increase, who will take care of the pharmacists?
As a pharmacy professional, you may have received questions from patients about non-prescription products for managing the symptoms of RSV, or prescribers seeking your advice on bronchodilators or corticosteroids for patients with underlying asthma.
Join us on Saturday, April 1st at 730 a.m. to learn more about yourself, conflict management, and what you can do to better manage difficult situations, conversations, and people.
The simplest way to obtain buy-up is togetherness. A team matures when they are united and have each other to follow. During turmoil, if they win as a team no one overstays their welcome by taking too much glory.
Over the last several weeks, we have looked at the various directions of directional leadership. That is all well and good, but what are you going to do with that information?
Last week I told you about my "plan" to take the last Friday of each month for self-development and how somehow those Fridays just didn't work out as I had planned.
Whether you like it or not, optically you are the expert. Your words and actions drive behaviour change and it is up to you to provide the feedback that allows staff to navigate their own individual mastery curves.
As travel and tourism re-emerge from the obstacles faced during the pandemic, the way in which travel medicine is being delivered is changing, with travelers increasingly turning to their pharmacists for last-minute travel advice and vaccinations.