Pharmacy Directors- Biggest Management Challenges?

Share your biggest management challenges being a pharmacy manager by commenting on this blog or click here.  I will answer the most commonly asked questions here.  Also, stay tuned for a multi-speaker pharmacist/pharmacy manager telesummit event within the next year that will address your main management challenges.

One of the most common challenges mentioned by pharmacists about their management is managing expectations and communicating expectations clearly.

One way to communicate expectations clearly is to conduct set performance reviews.

Here’s a pearl on having performance reviews that inspire your staff’s performance.  Something you may not be doing currently:   Include the pharmacist rating him/herself on measurable factors, in addition to you as the pharmacy management evaluating the pharmacist.  Allow the pharmacist to participate in the creation of some of those measurable factors as well.

Stay tuned!  I will write on other ways to communicate expectations effectively in another blog article.