2 Minute Lesson – Communicating To Create Understanding
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As an eternal optimist, I understand the times when people tell you to stay positive, look on the bright side, or it could have been worse. I get it. I continuously practice it. And even post injury, post work-injury, I am grateful it was only ‘so bad’. There are times you may think being positive is the only way to get through difficult or challenging circumstances. To always see the…
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Empathy, noun, the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. The workers’ compensation system was designed to restore the lives of humans who were injured during an unforeseen circumstance while at work. Helping people during these vulnerable moments, once injury has been sustained, should provide an opportunity to create a trusting relationship between an adjuster and the injured worker. The adjusting role should be looked at as the…
Lakewood Ranch, Fla. (February 21, 2023) – WorkCompCollege.com, a division of Workers' Compensation Educational Services, announces ODG by MCG, an MCG Health company, has signed an agreement to be a Bronze Associate Partner. Through this partnership, ODG will help support ongoing education activities for the workers’ compensation ecosystem. ODG by MCG is the most widely used evidence-based, medical treatment and return-to-work solution for managing workers’ compensation, disability, and auto liability…
Empathy is a concept so needed in the workers’ compensation space and yet we have not invested the time, talent, and resources to further examine and develop this concept. Empathy: a core fundamental to build connection and trust. In this space, we are so quickly to judge the injured human being on the other end of the line or the person who filed the workers’ compensation claim and yet what…
In 2018, I sustained an injury to my left hip. The injury resulted in five surgical procedures that summer, with a plethora of rehab on my road to recovery. While the physical process was painful and challenging, the mental components were even worse. This was a workers’ compensation claim. Six weeks post-operation, I was in physical therapy. My physical therapist was very straight forward with me and said “The physical…
Live! March 7, 2023 at 1:00PM Eastern. This is our first ever live class! It is free to the public and being recorded for our Advanced Training & Education Center. Our esteemed panel of experts will discuss and compare the workers' compensation system with the 1972 Report issued by the National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation Laws. On July 31,1972, the “National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation Laws” submitted its…
We have always done it this way. This is the epitome of workers’ compensation and the claims handling process. It is the death of creativity, innovation, and organizational development. It crushes souls, smothers hope, and needs to be a phrase of the past. In a rapidly changing world, the workers’ compensation industry has escaped the movement necessary to be exciting. I know this space can be better, the experience, the…
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