by Ishwari Samarakoon | July 15, 2024 | Career, Hard conversations, The Speechie Life Blog
Have you ever wondered – why do I need a mentor? Why is one important? Especially since you have seen plenty of people around you do well without one. I think this is such a fair question. So let me know answer it for you. A mentor is not just a supervisor,...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | July 8, 2024 | Career, Hard conversations, The Speechie Life Blog, Work-Life balance
Let’s talk billable hours. Why? Because it has a huge impact on your caseload, your confidence and your skill development. Your billable hours will change as you move from new grad to early career speech pathologist and then mid-career. Why? Because when you first...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | July 1, 2024 | Career, The Speechie Life Blog, Work-Life balance
Have you heard of the Zone of Genius? It’s from Gay Hendrick’s book – The Big Leap. He talks about how in life and work, we have tasks and skills that fall into 4 zones. The key is learning to spend more time in our Zone of Genius than our Zone of Excellence as...
