How to make sense of soured workplace relationships: Attachment injuries
One does not usually think about attachment styles and attachment injuries when talking about employers and employees. And yet, most employer/employee relationships end because of a series of attachment injuries […]
How to overcome employee betrayal: 5 steps to love resiliently
One does not need to be in practice long to discover a need to overcome employee betrayal and recover from injuries. Unfortunately, every practice owner accumulates stories of hurt and […]
When we need to fire an employee
There are times when we have exhausted all other options, and the remaining option is to fire an employee. Of course, getting to this point should rarely be sudden or […]
When an employee leaves: Saying goodbye well
When an employee leaves, saying goodbye well is often not the primary reaction that we experience. First, we must work through the sense of loss or even betrayal before the […]
Addition by subtraction: Types of difficult, disastrous employees
Over the 38 years of owning a practice, we hired over 100 employees. They came in all sorts. Some fit well. Others did not. And some were disastrous employees. Dealing […]