As the years go on, I have noticed a steady decline in the ability of candidate students to conduct a successful interview. The ability to confidently sell yourself and provide a potential employer or professor a well-rounded view of your personality and professional qualities can really take you far in life. However, it seems this talent is an ...

Last blog, we talked about receiving criticism and offered a few practical suggestions on how to take it. In this blog, I want to discuss how to give a negative feedback. In your role as a supervisor or a teacher, it becomes your responsibility to be a coach, a counselor, and a disciplinarian. It is critical that feedback is given in a ...

If you're not following us on Facebook, you're missing a lot of fun feedback. If you are, keep following and spread the word! The conversations are far from over.We asked Facebook fans: ''If you could ask for one improvement in your lab, what would it be''? Here are selected responses, copied verbatim without editing: Re-engineering of the ...

Guest post by Anthony L. DeWittEvery healthcare worker tends to have a gallows sense of humor. It comes from the nearly constant exposure to pain, suffering, death and dying.  Without an ability to laugh at the bad things that happen every day, no health care worker could long remain sane. A good sense of humor is essential to anyone who ...

If you have not made plans to attend the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) Annual Meeting this summer, you still have time to do so. The meeting is designed for you and your professional needs. The meeting offers educational topics that promote advanced learning in the science and practice of clinical laboratory science as ...

Educators always encourage students to talk, to be vocal, and to speak their mind. We like to engage with our students in a lively intellectual discussion about learning and recent events. Students carry on vibrant conversations all day long, but once in the classroom, it becomes a challenge for them to talk or to express their feelings. It is ...

Think about it: we live our entire lives with a name that we did not choose. Actually, we were not even involved in the decision making process in the selection of our names. Very few of us go the legal route of a name change. Our name is our identity. Pass the teenage years; we tend to like our names OK. In the digital days, we were given ...

To succeed, seek out change and action. Dr. Emmett Murphy, CEO of the Murphy Leadership Group, teaches a course called “Run towards the roar.” This is a clever play on the tale that prides of lions will sometimes use a specific brand of divide and conquer to capture prey. The older, slower male lions will form a line and roar loudly. The ...

This year's Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards (and nominated for twelve Oscars), was The King’s Speech, the story of King George VI of England who was suddenly forced to ascend the throne when his brother Edward VIII abdicates for love. The king, the father of the current Queen Elizabeth II, and whose nickname was Bertie (Prince Albert) ...

In a lab of twenty employees, three care enough to pick up the slack, five work hard to yank it away, and twelve just hope another job comes along. Everyone’s frustration is compounded by knowing that people at the top don’t care about them, don’t want them to do well, and don’t listen to what people say in the community. On the list of what ...