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Addressing performance problems: 8 steps to success

Talking with employees about their performance problems can be an uncomfortable moment for any manager. But it’s also a crucial part of the job and, if done well, will ultimately make a manager’s job much easier. Here are eight steps to planning and executing such discussions: 1. Schedule the meeting and set the stage. Make […]

10 Benefits of Documenting Employee Performance

1.Master progressive discipline and effectively structure terminations. 2.Draft warnings, discipline and termination documents—the right way. 3.Save time and remove the anxiety from the discipline-documentation process. 4.Build confidence in your writing skills and improve your standing within the organization. 5.Shift responsibility for improvement away from the organization and back to the employee (where it rightfully belongs!). […]

Customizing feedback: The 9 different personality types

Ever notice how you can say the same exact thing to two different people, and they each take the comment completely differently? A manager’s “great suggestion” to one employee could be seen as “rude meddling” by another. The effectiveness of your feedback isn’t solely dependent on how it’s given. The other important half is how […]

In recent years, the growth of healthcare spending has slowed not only in the U.S. but also globally. In a viewpoint article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Commonwealth Fund Senior Researcher David Squires explores potential reasons for the deceleration. Here are five things to know about healthcare spending growth. 1. Healthcare […]

Effect of intra-articular local anesthesia on articular cartilage in the knee

Published in Arthroscopy. 2014 May;30(5):607-12 Authors: Ravnihar K et al. PURPOSE: To evaluate the hypothetical toxic effect of local anesthetics on the articular cartilage using patient data from autologous chondrocyte cultivation with different anesthesia types used for arthroscopic cartilage biopsy specimen procurement. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of patient data from the national autologous chondrocyte implantation […]