Podcast
Compassion Fatigue in Legal Nurse Consultants
“Compassion fatigue is a state experienced by those helping people or animals in distress; it is an extreme state of tension and preoccupation with the suffering of those being helped to the degree that it can create a secondary traumatic stress for the helper.” Dr. Charles Figley, Professor, Paul Henry Kurzweg Distinguished Chair Director, Tulane…
Read MoreDo You Take Care of Yourself?
The following describes too many business people: You’re a solopreneur or you run a business with a few employees. Sometimes you’re struggling. You never have enough hours in the day. You push yourself, drive yourself, and, ultimately, you don’t take care of yourself. A few days ago, I met a former attorney who is now…
Read MoreHow to Finish What You Start: Social Media
You know that frustrating feeling of not being able to finish what you start? If your life is a graveyard for unfinished projects, read this. Everyone does it. You have an exciting new project. You can imagine the happiness its completion will give you. You start working on it—and then you abandon it. Working on…
Read MoreAttorney Ethical Violations: Don’t Get Caught Up in This Nightmare
Attorney ethical violations are on my mind this week as I read about the parents who lied and cheated and bribed their children’s way into admission to college. There were 50 parents, including 2 prominent movie stars (Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin) and an attorney, in the round up. Attorney Gordon Caplan, a Greenwich CT…
Read MoreEffective Listening – a Forgotten Skill?
Most of us—as many as 90 percent—aren’t effective listeners, a lack that affects our ability to have positive and productive relationships—at home, at work, and wherever we need good communication. What We Say and What We Hear As legal nurse consultants, we may think we are listening well. After all, we’ve been trained to communicate…
Read MoreHow will 2019 Affect Legal Nurse Consulting?
On December 5-6, 2018, I participated in a 2-day conference for C-Suite executives and their C-Suite Network Advisors. Here’s what I learned that will impact marketing and managing your legal nurse consulting practice in 2019. Use of stories You’ll see more advertising that tells a story rather than lists the facts about a product or…
Read MoreThe Toxic Client Prevention Guide: Screening Clients
When an attorney first approaches you with the case, is he or she serious about using you or are you dealing with a potential toxic client? You might get a call from someone who says, “I’m an associate who’s been asked to collect information about prices. What are yours?” She might say, “I’m calling around…
Read MoreIs it Medical Malpractice or Just a Bad Outcome?
I’m sitting on my hotel bed reading my friend’s medical records. It is the night before her appointment with a second opinion cataract surgeon at Wills Eye, a Philadelphia hospital that specializes only in eye disorders. As she paces nervously around the room, she says, “I know he screwed up my surgery. Do I have…
Read MoreDo You Need to Continually Learn? Only if You Want to Stay in Business
Your LNC business needs nourishing like plants in a garden. Continually learn new ideas, new approaches, and new methods to create the stimulus to change. You can’t put new ideas into an old mindset. You can’t achieve new results with old behaviors. This is a hard reality of life. Your comfort zone is a danger…
Read MoreNegotiating with a Bully
Have you seen the impact of bullying? Have you observed it in your home, workplace, or business? I know I have, in all those locations. Have you been involved in negotiating with a bully? A year ago, a publisher came to my colleague Greg Williams and said, “We want you to write a book about…
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