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Turkish Lore and Sir Francis Bacon Suggest a New Approach to Workshops and Bootcamps
Turkish Lore and Sir Francis Bacon Suggest a New Approach to Workshops and Bootcamps
It’s been a conundrum, now solved.
It’s been a wish, now solved.
It’s been a challenge, which has now been solved, and solved with a solution that will continue to grow the profession of advocacy (hopefully) far into the future!
Announcing…
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Bogus Claims Will Come Back to Bite You
Bogus Claims Will Come Back to Bite You
(This post is being published in May 2020 – in the midst of the pandemic – when many advocates are working from home, and hopefully taking time to update and improve their business practices. I hope the message here rings true for those of you – the few of you – who need it, and that necessary changes will be made accordingly.)
True confessions here! I met my husband on Match.com. We met and…
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(Update #5) For Your Listening and Learning Pleasure...
(Update #5) For Your Listening and Learning Pleasure…
Covid-19 Update: April 13, 2020
Whether you’re holed up in your home office, or enjoying a nice walk or other exercise, or anything in between, your earpods, or earbuds, or a headset can be your friend and teacher for three podcasts APHA recently recorded and published under the title Crisis Conversations.
(1) Providing Advocacy CARE Services During a Pandemic
Despite physical distancing and no…
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TOC: Your Independent Advocacy or Care Management Practice in a Time of Coronavirus / COVID-19
Find all COVID-19 / Coronavirus Pandemic posts listed here:
Update #4 Finding Opportunities During this Crisis (April 1, 2020)
Update #3 Starter Ideas for Helping Clients During a Pandemic (March 21, 2020)
Update #2 Fostering the Right Attitude for Your Clients and Your Practice (March 19, 2020)
This is not a time to be waiting for things to change. Act now to help clients and your practice.
Firs…
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(Update #3) Your Independent Advocacy or Care Management Practice in a Time of Coronavirus / COVID-19
Covid-19 Update: March 21, 2020
Responses to my previous post indicate many advocates are beginning to emerge from your “OMG” moments and trying to figure out how to get started, to prepare yourselves for what is to come. GREAT!
Here’s a start – a good idea for getting your head into the right space while you help others: Research local pharmacies, their hours, their delivery options, and phone…
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(Update #4) Your Independent Advocacy or Care Management Practice in a Time of Coronavirus / COVID-19
Covid-19 Update: April 1, 2020
Sadly, but not surprisingly, I know those of you in practice just aren’t hearing much from new business / clients these days. Beyond the fact that everyone still appears to be in shock over this crisis (no surprise – aren’t we all?), I’m sure most people who might have been reaching out for help feel like even advocates would be helpless. After all – we’re all shut…
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Your Independent Advocacy or Care Management Practice in a Time of Coronavirus / COVID-19
Updated March 19, 2020
During the past week, I have heard from many advocates who are taking all the steps needed to stay safe, who tell me they are recommending such steps to others, and that (in the words of one) they are “just planning to wait it out until this all blows over.”
No NO No No No!
That is NOT the right thinking for smart practice owners! In fact, it’s just the opposite of how we…
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Patient Advocates and the Coronavirus
Patient Advocates and the Coronavirus
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know you can’t turn on the news, read news online or in a newspaper, or attend an event, or go anywhere – in person or online – without seeing or hearing something about the 2019 coronavirus.
It’s the only health-related story that can knock the horror of uncontrolled medical bills lower down the list of headlines. And, of course, because its eventual…
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Are You the Chicken? or the Pig?
Are You the Chicken? or the Pig?
If you consider a bacon-and-egg breakfast, what is the difference between the chicken and the pig?
It’s a question that determines commitment. While the chicken can produce many eggs over a lifetime, the pig can produce bacon only once. The chicken may be involved in the breakfast, but the pig is totally and irrevocably committed.
So what does that have to do with independent advocacy?
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Charging on a Sliding Scale Just Creates a Can of Worms
Charging on a Sliding Scale Just Creates a Can of Worms
Most advocates and care managers I know have huge hearts. They want to help everyone who needs help! They truly dislike having to charge money for their services (because many have done this work for free for friends and loved ones for a lifetime). Further, in many cases, they don’t give themselves credit for being as capable as they are.
So they struggle. They ask themselves how on earth they…
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Need More Clients? 3 Marketing Realities and Resources
Need More Clients? 3 Marketing Realities and Resources
“My directory listing doesn’t attract enough clients. What am I doing wrong?”
“I get calls, but we hang up the phone without a contract! What am I doing wrong?”
“I finished working with my client and don’t have anyone else to help. Now what?”
These are questions I am asked frequently and repeatedly. Maybe you have the same ones!
Each one relates to marketing.
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Get Unstuck - Learn to Overcome the Paralysis of Analysis
Get Unstuck – Learn to Overcome the Paralysis of Analysis
Common scenario:
You have dreamed about becoming a private health /patient advocate or care manager for a while. You know you can do it, you know you are a good advocate, your heart really WANTS to change careers to advocacy, you know people need help with their medical system challenges…
Plus everyone you know thinks it’s a great idea! They all tell you – OMG – there is such a huge need!
Maybe…
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Why Lifelong Advocates Can Fail at Independent Advocacy
Why Lifelong Advocates Can Fail at Independent Advocacy
Many of you, despite the fact that you have developed outstanding patient advocacy skills, will not succeed as independent private advocates, because you don’t act on one important distinction.
Doesn’t seem right or fair, does it?
So what’s that distinction? Let’s try a metaphor:
Colleen has always loved houses, and has been the admin in a real estate company for almost 30 years. She has handled…
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Families Need You: A Thanksgiving Opportunity
Families Need You: A Thanksgiving Opportunity
Thanksgiving and the rest of the holiday season are right around the corner. Smart health and patient advocates and care managers can find this season to be a golden opportunity to expand their reach in many positive ways.
The holidays are family times. Generations come together. Inevitably someone is facing a health and/or health system challenge. Aunt Joan has a new cancer diagnosis and hasn’t…
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You May Be a Criminal Without Even Knowing It
You May Be a Criminal Without Even Knowing It
You’re probably shaking your head… Criminal? Seriously? Of course you haven’t broken the law! You’re a law-abiding citizen and would never consider doing such a thing!
And yet, there may be hundreds of you who have done just that.
Further, you would deny it – until you learn the facts.
The facts, described here, may help you get back in line with the law if it’s required.
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ICOPA 2019 Proved, Once Again, That....
ICOPA 2019 Proved, Once Again, That….
… there is nothing like a shared experience to improve our worlds: personal and professional.
Just WOW!
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Political Controversy: We Are Being Tested Once Again
Political Controversy: We Are Being Tested Once Again
I’m a political being and a news junkie. Can’t help it. It’s in my blood – literally – because both my father and grandfather (dad’s father) were journalists, both avidly interested in politics. In fact, Grampa’s beat was Congress for Gannett Press in Washington, DC. (Reginald F. Torrey) See? I come by it naturally.
Which is why the news of last week, the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s…
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