Dr. Erin L. Albert - Fridays

Read a GREAT article this weekend on digital savvy to great board directorship, and it got me thinking: what makes a GREAT board director? Here are my top 7 mad skills...and I have a post over at LinkedIn about this today as well: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/getting-board-wider-range-7-savvy-skills-21c-bod-work-erin-l-/?published=t What did I miss? 

Happy Monday. I'm going to try some food for thought episodes to get your and my week launched right. Here are 4 questions to ponder if you want to go from a good professional to a GREAT one.

Happy Weekend! Here's my quick recap on #SocialMediaDames2019! (Thank you, Amy Stark, for your leadership this year!) 1. Pragmatic tip: Who's in the room? on LinkedIn 2. Philosophical tip: Don't try to be superwoman all the time! 3. Anybody who wants in on my fall #podcasting workshop - hit me on the two way or at twitter @ErinLAlbert and let me know you're in and I'll put you on the mailing list. TBD on time, place, and space. I do know it will be in this galaxy! :D ___Also:___ 4. Hope ASCP MidAtlantic is going well out in Gettysburg. and 5. Shoutout to my high school classmate/South Bend WHS Panthers who are meeting for our ***th reunion this weekend!

It’s AUGUST! When did that happen?!? Anywho, bringing you an episode a little early because Friday August 2 is a BIG DAY!

We all love to talk about the benefits of HAVING a mentor. Here in this quick episode, I discuss some of the benefits of BEING a MENTOR. It's supporting this longer article at LinkedIn as well on 5 Reasons Why mentoring is Good for Mentors: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-reasons-why-mentoring-good-mentors-albert-mba-pharmd-jd-pahm/ And here's the Butler University #Pharmacist Mentoring Night Reservation Form - you should join us on 9/26! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiVa3I4o1Au-QzjQM95FQg-a_og5cq6dzv1ZkBBbQkBEo7UQ/viewform Regardless of your profession, consider serving your profession as a #mentor. The benefits are HUGE for all parties!

Hey everybody! Happy last Friday of July 2019! Can you believe July is almost gone?!? Here's what we're working on for you at the Albert ranch: 1. ASCP Business & Entrepreneurship in Senior Care Pharmacy 5 part, longitudinal series of learning activities for pharmacists - over 20+ hours of CPE credit will be around this one! https://annual.ascp.com/schedule/interactive.html 2. SMDames19 - 8/2 - If you catch me quick enough - I may still have a steep discount code for ya to participate! 3. August - SO MUCH FUN STUFF COMING! More podcasts, more learning events (non-pharmacy related) and MORE JERSEY SHORE!!!!

On this special episode, I interview and chat with Mary Casino, who is the ASCP APPE current rotation student, and our first remote student with the association on rotation! We discuss: 1. Stress & Burnout - and how they affect pharmacy students. 2. The overall "remote" APPE rotation experience, and how learning remote work actually can benefit future pharmacists. 3. More on the exercises we'll offer this fall in the Nontraditional Healthcare Professional Elective. Job crafting, word cloud dream job exercises, and leveraging LinkedIn. Mary's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marycasino/ And...2020/2021 students: APPLY NOW to be on rotation at ASCP! www.ascp.com/appe 

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Getting ready for an interview with a very special guest, Mary Casino, our current remote APPE student on rotation with us at ASCP! Hit me on Twitter (@ErinLAlbert) with your questions for Mary around these 3 areas today if you can, and I'll see if we can get it into the show: 1. Student stress and burnout - in pharmacy 2. The ASCP APPE rotation for curious students applying this fall for 2020-2021. www.ascp.com/appe 3. Linking your dream job to you...and online after school. (And this one really doesn't just apply to pharmacy - but to ALL professionals making a career change.)

Thanks to Cardinal Health and Quarles & Brady for some thought-provoking venues and educational sessions this week! Here's the LinkedIn long post as the subject of this podcast - check it out. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/star-power-7-steps-attract-retain-sponsor-erin-l-/ It's lonely at the top. But it doesn't have to be! Find a sponsor or two, even if you have to go outside of your professional zone to do it!

A LOT going on this week! Live update from...the luxurious IND airport parking garage. Here’s the scoop. Happy weekend!

Hark! A new job opening on the A(SCP) Team! Check it out here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1375212846/ www.ascp.com 

Hey everyone! Happy Ides of July! Thought I'd "aureate" my latest LinkedIn post - on ways to actively engage your audience when giving a talk. Here's the post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/4-ways-actively-engage-your-audience-anti-actor-style-erin-l-/ And if it's tl;dr - NO WORRIES - just listen in here at the ol' podcast!  Have a great week!

Shoutout to Nicholas on LinkedIn for this QOTW: What career opportunities are there for pharmacists in ethics and philosophy?

Hi Friends! Early we made it Friday podcast this week! Listen as to why. Also, I get...very Brene Brown with y'all for a minute.  ASCP Midwest Post on Operation Manuals: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-personal-operators-manual-erin-l-albert-mba-pharmd-jd-pahm/ (Here's my own if you want to see it.) Vulnerability prickly point (and my new book that I didn't know I was writing): Blue Skies with a Side of Prickly: Essays on Pharmacy, Business and Life: https://payhip.com/b/6Ag8 Talking women, pharmacy and leadership at Cardinal Health RBC on 7/19! ASCP MidAtlantic regional coming soon  SMDames19 is almost here! I'll be chatting about...PODCASTING. Until next time....stay cool out there!

Seriously: Cannabis Pharmacy seems to be exploding in North America. So, let’s discuss. Check out this post at LinkedIn too if you’re curious: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ten-places-where-you-can-nab-education-your-way-gig-erin-l-

7/5/19 - Question(s) of the week via Mary - the APPE student from BUCOPHS I have on rotation with me at ASCP right now. 1. Can you provide a broad overview of different careers in pharmacy outside of community practice and health system pharmacy? 2. Per each career, what association(s) should an individual or student join if they want to know more about career dev in those areas? A: working on them, and already answered some of this. 1. 57 Cool Jobs for Pharmacists Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/pharmacy-podcast/57-cool-jobs-for-pharmacists 57 Cool Jobs article: https://payhip.com/b/RN2g 2. List of pharmacy associations/societies in a list of meetings I previously created: https://payhip.com/b/HF6Y Now, I just have to play match.com for the course with these two resources! :D Thanks Mary!

Happy Independence Day, everyone! Today's guest is the Executive Director of a brand new society, The Digital Medicine Society!  Jennifer Goldsack, MChem, MA, MBA, OLY Bio: Jen Goldsack is VP of Digital Measurement at monARC Bionetworks and serves as the Interim Executive Director of the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe). Previously, Jen spent several years at the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) where she led development and implementation several projects within CTTI’s Mobile Program and was the operational co-lead on the first randomized clinical trial using FDA’s Sentinel System. Jen spent five years working in research at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, first in Outcomes Research in the Department of Surgery and later in the Department of Medicine. More recently, she helped launch the Value Institute, a pragmatic research and innovation center embedded in a large academic medical center in Delaware. Jen earned her master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Oxf

Finally! The main stream media is starting to talk about a massive retailer laying off 40% of its pharmacy workforce. Here are my recommendations on where we are headed, and share more on our brand new certification for pharmacists at ASCP, BESCPC. If you prefer video - watch the LinkedIn live: 9/9/19 - Ep 1 – Future of Pharmacy Jobs: https://lnkd.in/e8K_2YR

THE YEAR IS ALMOST HALF OVER - what have you done with it, time bandits?!? Here's what I'm spending the REST of my time working on...for you! 1. ASCP BCGP webinar ABCs of Diabetes - 7/1 LIVE! - http://learning.ascp.com/diweb/catalog/item/id/2825929 2. ASCP Midwest Regionals, CPE and BCGP, 7/12-7/13 BUTLER UNIVERSITY LIVE! http://www.ascp.com/midwest 3. ASCP MidAtlantic Regionals, CPE and BCGP, 8/2-8/4 GETTYSBURG, PA LIVE! http://www.ascp.com/midatlantic 4. ASCP 50th ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING #ASCP50 - virtual speaker ready room launches TODAY - yay! www.ascp.com/annual to register and see our programs, including a little more on #BESCPC. 5. Television shenanigans this week: a. Indiana Issues with Abdul Hakim Shabazz - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNcyq-XkMps b. Insiders on Inside Indiana Business - www.insideindianabusiness.com Merry Weekend!

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