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Cultivating Cultural Dexterity Helps Companies Flourish
HFMA Career Coach Joe Abel takes a look at how being dexterous and deft can help healthcare organizations embrace diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Why Employers Should Appreciate and Leverage a Multi-Generational Workplace
Millennials and Gen-Xers are driving significant change in the workplace that many employees across all generations want, writes HFMA Career Coach Joe Abel, and employers are wise to capitalize on this trend.
Mastering Your Emotions: You Can’t Leave Home Without Them
Emotions: We truly cannot leave home without them, says Hilda Villaverde, PhD. She takes a deeper look at emotional self-awareness and its benefits.
Encourage Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace by Setting Strong Boundaries
HFMA Career Coach Joe Abel writes about why establishing strong boundaries and enforcing them over time is critical to your success in the workplace.
5 Steps to Overcoming Your Fears
HFMA Career Coach Joe Abel looks at what holds people back from pursuing new career opportunities, and he walks through five steps that can help eliminate fears to help you move forward.
Confronting Your Fear is the Key to Living a Meaningful Life
About 30 years ago, a concerned friend gave Hilda Villaverde, PhD, a book that improved her life: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, by Susan Jeffers. She writes about how the book served as her personal wake-up call to examine what was meaningful in her life.
The Future of Value
The move toward value remains a constant although the future of health care is uncertain.
Define Your Destination Through Personal Branding
HFMA Career Coach Joe Abel looks at the winding career path of Dorie Clark, CEO of Clark Strategic Communications, and how she became a recognized expert in personal branding. Using Clark's principles, Abel provides a wealth of information about how to reinvent yourself through personal branding.
Self-Pay Patient Financial Liability: A Hospital’s Biggest Post-Election Challenge
As a result of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act and rising self-pay responsibility among consumers, a growing number of consumers could find themselves unable to pay their portions of their healthcare bills, raising financial challenges for providers.
Whether You Win or Lose, Don’t Lose the Lessons
HFMA Career Coach Joe Abel looks at the career wins and losses of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, and how we can learn career lessons from Young's attitude about winning and losing.