by SMW Group | Apr 1, 2018 | Balance, Family, Friends, Healthy decision making, SMWGroup, Stress management
Your phone dies; you plug it in and recharge it! Your computer slows down; you delete extra backups, restore, and more! Your body fails you, and what do you do? Can you change the batteries, recharge it, or take it in for assessment and repairs? Perhaps this is a...
by SMW Group | Jan 4, 2018 | All-Win, Balance, Confidence, Contingency Planning, Controversy, Negotiate, Negotiating, Stress management
NEGOTIATE: A New Year …let the negotiating begin! What will it be for you: childcare, salary, a new car, travel, or a new you? We begin by sharing the tools and techniques we’ve generated over a lifetime of negotiating and public speaking. We’ve had great success...
by SMW Group | Jan 1, 2018 | Balance, C-Suite, Contingency Planning, Healthy decision making, Stress management
It is New Year’s Day, and perhaps you completed your list of resolutions, rehashed or repurposed those from last year, or you are simply wondering where to begin! This is a good day, and a good time, to revisit the subject of balance. After all, life is indeed...
by SMW Group | Oct 2, 2017 | Confidence, Nursing, Patient experience, Predictions, safety, SMWGroup, Stress management, Turmoil
Many of my nurse colleagues have been both patient and nurse at one time or another. Frankly, while you might think that it is nice to relax on the opposite site of the bed for once and have someone care for you, and perhaps for some it is, I find it an uncomfortable...
by SMW Group | Jul 24, 2017 | Balance, C-Suite, Controversy, Family, Friends, Healthy decision making, Leadership, Parenting, SMWGroup, Stress management, Teamwork
First things first – do you agree? When it comes to time management, Stephen Covey recommends first anchoring the “big rocks” into your schedule, then filling in the remaining space with the less important pebbles, and then sand. He shares that you will...
by SMW Group | Jun 15, 2017 | Balance, C-Suite, Healthy decision making, Leadership, Predictions, SMWGroup, Stress management, Teamwork, Values
Stress is overwhelming, and workplace stress has become a ‘given.’ We can overcome that stress by creating an internal respite center whose goal is to provide a safe, calm place in which nurses can regain momentum, renew the spirit and refresh themselves. I’ve had...
