Given the power to change anything about how performance is managed in the US, I’d start with — well, just about everything. But if you asked me for one word I’d love to [...]
At Merces, we are advocates of “best practice” compensation programs, and I have written extensively here on the methods and techniques that we feel are essential to proper [...]
Now that the holidays have passed, and with the Super Bowl a couple weeks away, it is time to think about what your health center will want to accomplish in the area of employee compensation in [...]
I shouldn’t be giving this away for free, but I hope that readers see the simplicity of this, and stop wasting time, effort and money on this topic, and move on to more complex things that [...]
Increasing the minimum wage does not improve the skills and contributions of those who currently earn the minimum wage – but increasing an organization’s minimum wage may be essential to [...]
Just got off the phone with the CEO of a long-time client; we were talking about the implementation of a “best practice” governance program to help guide the FQHC’s Board toward [...]
I’ve spent more time dealing with provider compensation in the last three years than I did in my first seventeen years working with FQHCs. There is much more interest now in provider [...]
Performance appraisal may well be the most despised management process around, and often for very good reasons. Most performance appraisal forms are only marginally relevant to an employee’s [...]
Performance appraisal may well be the most despised management process around, and often for very good reasons. Most performance appraisal forms are only marginally relevant to an employee’s [...]
The typical Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Board of Directors has only one employee to manage – its Chief Executive Officer. Many not-for-profit Directors have little to no experience [...]
