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Data-Driven Decision Making
Putting Data Behind Your Decisions for Improved Outcomes in Community Health Centers
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The 5-Why’s: A discovery tool that’s not just for toddlers
For any parents out there or for anyone who’s ever spent time with a three-year-old, you are familiar with the question “why”? It seems like the stream of why’s can be endless. This inquisitive nature is lost for many in adulthood. This lost art of asking why can be very beneficial when you’re looking at […]
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SNF Writing Solutions is turning 10!
For our birthday, we’re launching a new division and giving local organizations gifts.
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Work-Life Balance when Work and Life are at Home
Its Sunday, yet I’m thinking about work, and I’m writing about work, and I’m sitting in my office at my work computer. When you work at home, it’s hard to get a sense of balance and to learn how to effectively go from one to another. This is the hardest part of running a virtual […]
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"Replacing" the Face-to-Face Planning Session
A lot of what I do is planning, problem-solving, and getting information out of people’s heads to craft it into a masterpiece of a plan, proposal, or solution. I’m now facing the need to do current-state, future-state, and gap workshops virtually! I will never be able to replace the in-person session – the energy, body […]
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A few coronavirus survival tips from a long-time Working-From-Home consultant and mom
As the world faces the pandemic of an era, all of us are facing new ways of living. Whether it’s just that you can’t go to your favorite restaurant or bar on St. Patrick’s Day or that you are now a work-from-home professional or you might have the trifecta: working-from-home-while-home-schooling-and-you-don’t-even-get-to-go-to-the-bar! I’m now in that last […]
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Happy Fall-New-Year
No need to wait until January to think about next year – first in a series illustrating the methods to reevaluate plans and create direction simply.
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How to Irritate Your Grant Proposal Reviewer in 5 Easy Steps
As I finish another grant review panel (this one Federal), I found that I had to check my “crankiness” meter – where I was on the scale when I reviewed the app – during our discussion in the team-consensus calls. Upon reflection, I decided that the applicants would do certain things that immediately changed my perception of the rest of the application. While I could temper this, somewhat, in the consensus scoring – there were many things that irritated me so much that I couldn’t (wouldn’t) let it go. And others on my review panel had their irritants too!
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Implementing a New Software? Don’t Forget About These 5 Things.
New software programs and apps can make life wonderful for organizations. In addition to just rolling out the new system with the software company, there are other items to keep in mind.
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Lessons from the Spring 2016 DLT Season: 5 Things to Watch Out For This Year
For those that survived the USDA RUS Distance Learning and Telemedicine 2016 grant application season, congratulations! As we are gearing up for another round this Spring, I reflect on the process with several lessons learned.