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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

In an effort to further advance the understanding of those who have turned to TRG team and site over the years, we will be adding a Frequently Asked Questions page to our website later this week under the "New From Regis" tab.

Early additions are intended to include Planning and Issue Resolution, followed soon by Converting Your Career.

We are open to and requesting questions. The opening round will list those we have heard the most often in the past 20 years of service to professionals world-wide.

We will be exploring the best way to make this feature as completely relevant to as many of our readers as possible.

Please send us your questions, comments and alternative answers to InfoTRG@regisgroup.com

We appreciate your ongoing interest.

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June 2012

MISSING PIECES:

'Turning Planning Theory To Action'

In all TRG facilitated planning sessions there is a moment of challenge when the leadership is asked if the listed outcomes and actions are:

1) A full representation of those both needed and intended

2) Connected to both ‘Ownership’ and a ‘Calendar’

This concept should be more than a grace-note at the end of a successful planning session, but connected to the core of all groups’ ongoing focus on success. Without a mechanism to massage strategic intentions on a regular basis, there is a strong likelihood that, at the minimum, while pursuing winning steps, potential allied and connected actions will be lost.

Following is a “Planning to Reality” Checklist:

Plan Ownership: Named Leadership; Protocols; Review / Back-up

Working Calendar: For ALL Goals, Objectives and Initiatives

Financial Targets: Prospective Growth; Minimums Necessary to Sustain Operation

Talent: Connection to Targets; Inventory; Sought; Obtained

Administration: Executive / Managerial; Financial; Legal

Facilities: Internal Base of Support; External Availability

Systems: Internal Capabilities; External Extensions; Sought After Resources

Outreach: Marketing; General Communications; Public Relations; Internet Positioning

If ANY of the above are missing, the planning runs the risk of resulting in an outcome more limited than it should be.

Focus on the Future

Guest Predictions:

Kathleen McEwan Pelkofski

Guest Predictions is a regular feature in which we ask leaders in a number of professions a set of questions that affect us all.

Kathleen McEwan Pelkofski, MSN, ANP is an adult nurse practitioner with Loudoun Internal Medicine Associates in Leesburg, Virginia. Current areas of clinical practice include geriatrics, women's health and management of chronic disease as well as primary care. She has served as a clinical instructor in the George Washington and George Mason collaborative nurse practitioner program. Ms. Pelkofski has worked in critical care, community health and has been a part of an international volunteer program.

Q: What changes in your professional environment in the past 3-5 years have you found to be the most beneficial?

A: The implementation of the electronic medical record allows instant access to patient information. It has also allowed immediate access to online medical resources that are updated frequently. Patient care is improved at the time of the visit because patient history, lab tests and consultations for example, are available.

Q: What changes have been the most troubling to you?

A: Working constantly within the Medicare guidelines is both impractical and time consuming. Patients often do not seek care because of financial constraints if they are under this program. The delay in care then may present with a more complex medical problem. The result is then increased cost due to perhaps a hospitalization or an accident.

Q: How will globalization affect your professional area in the near term?

A: Patients traveling internationally that present in the office of the primary care physician or in the emergency room may expose and transmit unusual diseases. Language barriers, cultural differences and economic status affect the quality of care delivered. Very often these patients do not seek care because they are unaware of how to access the health care system. Women and children are especially at risk.

Q: What significant challenges might be anticipated in your professional area in the next few years?

A: With a large number of patients being uninsured, there will likely be some sort of government "master plan." This might mean health care will be rationed. There will be more government regulation and those of us delivering care will be unable to deliver the best care for the patient. Patient visits will be shorter and there will be less continuity of care.

Q: What are the greatest challenges confronting young professionals in Western culture today?

A: There are virtually no individual practices. Young professionals must be part of a network or group. This can cause loss of flexibility and individuality. There is very little latitude in treatment. There is a tremendous shortage of nursing instructors and a limited number of primary care providers. Reimbursements have decreased and the demands for detailed documentation through government-regulated programs have increased.

Kathleen McEwan Pelkofski

Marc Chinoy

President's Letter

TAKING OUR OWN ADVICE

Over the past year we have been urging The Agenda readers to swing around and focus on the internet as more than a phenomenon, but rather as the most powerful business, and for some, personal, tool of our time.

Now the TRG team must do a mea culpe for not having pursued our connection to the web as affirmatively (aggressively?) as we might have done.

In particular we have been slow in stepping forward to seek cross-lacing of web-site connections to our clients, allies and friends. Over the next weeks we will be pursuing our own advice and seeking more than web-address links pointing to clients (we have had those for years), but in particular exploring the cross posting of articles and press releases with our widely spread TRG network.

To this end we are including the article in the 2nd column, to be sure that actions match planned intentions.

And YES we are soliciting YOUR articles to be abbreviated in The Agenda and posted on our site.

Until the next time,

Marc Paul Chinoy

BizSpeak!

Winner of the Month:

Anonymous (from time to time clients/friends love the idea but not the thought that they will be named in front of a small universe of BizSpeak readers... Go figure)

“Gone Retro”

Definition:

Reverting to a former state of being.

Related Terms:

Reversal, Inversion, Waffle, Fuzzed-up

How it Sounds:

“The marketing group went Retro, not just on their campaign approach, which was an Antique, but even in how they sound, which is Underwhelming.”

Don't forget to send us your favorite BizSpeak to: infotrg@regisgroup.com

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The Regis Group, Inc.
102 North King Street | Leesburg, VA 20176 | 703 777-2233 | www.regisgroup.com