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  • Where are you in your pharmacy leadership season?

    "...we all have seasons where we contribute most. We all have a sweet spot where we deliver the most value. The extension of this is that all leaders have a sweet spot where they deliver the most value."
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  • Great staff don’t grow on trees and what to do about it

    While we all dream of this fairly-tale orchard-type succession plan, the current environment and low inventory of perfect people simply do not allow it. You know people-development should be your highest priority, you just don’t know where to start. The answer: build step ladders.
    Jason Chenard

  • What are the limits of your pharmacy leadership?

    Whether we like it or not, we are all leaders. But even though we are all leaders, we have different skillsets and leadership gifts, and that makes us unique. We are all unique leaders. Today, we will touch on a part of our leadership that may make us a bit uncomfortable. Rest assured, if you become uncomfortable today, that is for your benefit tomorrow.
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  • Where do we go from here?

    It’s important to remember that the role of the pharmacist has always been clinical, but now there is increased awareness, and public expectations have finally aligned with what we’ve been capable of offering for a long time. Our role in public health is being accessed and utilized in a variety of ways and at a greater volume.
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  • What type of pharmacy manager are you?

    A recent Canadian Pharmacist Association national survey on pharmacists’ mental health revealed some disturbingly negative results with many of us at risk of leaving the profession and others currently looking elsewhere for work. It points to us having to ask ourselves bigger questions to help navigate from here.
    Jason Chenard

  • Your Rx count: predictable or not?

    Pharmacy leaders appreciate that some percentage of their Rx count is predictable and the rest is unpredictable. The leverage comes in pushing the scale toward the predictable side
    Jason Chenard

  • There's so much to discover with drug interactions

    I became a pharmacist because of my love of science and people. Plus, I love the idea of continual learning. There is so much to discover about pharmacy as a career, how to interact with our patients and new, innovative medicines. Sometimes, though, we stumble on interesting information about new ways our bodies and medicine interact that we can’t help sharing with others.
    Rachel Luther

  • Watch your automatic renewal contracts!

    Pharmacy owners invariably enter into a variety of agreements as part of the normal course of business. Unfortunately, we see many owners who have not read their contracts before they sign them. This is always a bad idea because what you don’t know can hurt you!
    Mike and Max
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