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...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | June 25, 2024 | Career, The Speechie Life Blog, Work-Life balance
Do you put off taking leave? Or do you wait till the end of the year for the compulsory 2-week closure? Are you someone who feels bad for taking time off because taking holidays can feel indulgent? Or do you feel like you are letting your boss or the team down? Or are...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | June 17, 2024 | Career, The Speechie Life Blog
Have you ever looked at your skills and felt – when will I be done? Done learning? Done upskilling? Done needing to learn about new disorders or unfamiliar terms? When will you be able to feel like you have ticked all the boxes? Learnt everything you need to...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | June 10, 2024 | Career, The Speechie Life Blog, Work-Life balance
Let’s talk about partners. I know it seems like a strange topic to write about, especially in regard to Speech Pathology and your career. But hear me out. I was recently asked to speak about the topic of health leadership, burnout, imposter syndrome etc. It got me...