by Ishwari Samarakoon | September 3, 2024 | Career, Hard conversations, The Speechie Life Blog, Work-Life balance
Do you know how long a task takes you? Not the big tasks like writing a report but the little ones? Importantly, do you give yourself enough time in your day for these small tasks? Or do you find yourself at the end of each day going “Where did all my admin time go?”...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | August 12, 2024 | Career, Hard conversations, The Speechie Life Blog, Work-Life balance
Saying NO is hard. Not just for you but for everyone. Why is that? Because we are conditioned, especially as women to say yes. It has been drilled into us. We are taught to consider other people before we consider ourselves and what we need. So what do we do? How...
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 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...
