Going from Average to Great

Going from Average to Great!

Everyone has had dreams of really excelling at something in their lives. For instance, as a healthcare professional you probably envisioned an awesome practice with terrific patients or clients who went ahead with the ideal care you were presenting,…
Welcome

New staff need their boss

Have you ever wondered why some new employees “work out” better than others? You hire them full of hope that they will be the sparkling success you need them to be for whatever position they are to fill. In the interview, they seemed so…

Dealing with Rejection

Most healthcare professionals start off their careers full of bright, shiny enthusiasm to get their patients or clients to accept the ideal care they now know how to deliver. However, as time goes on and you have presented hundreds and thousands…
games and work

The Game of Work

I recently downloaded an ebook called “Gamification: Using Game Mechanics to Win at the Game of Work” written by Charles A. Coonradt and Ken Krogue. The following points are my take-aways from this e-book that might apply to healthcare practices…

How to Stay Positive, Despite Anything!

Have you ever gotten totally frustrated with some project or action you are working on and got to feeling that it couldn’t be done … that it was all impossible? Or you asked someone to do something and got negativity? You may have had…
Objection

Treatment Plan Rejection Syndrome

As a practitioner, you spent a lot of years getting trained to do some pretty amazing things for your patients, right? Then you started practising and got darned good at delivering those treatments and achieving some terrific results. When you…
Over Expansion

Is Overexpansion Possible?

Many practitioners are worried about getting too big too fast. Some don’t want to get big at all because of the concern of losing control of the practice. And others are anxious about keeping their work/life balance from going completely out…

Confirming by Texting and Emailing

Times change and so must we on this one.  The traditional way of scheduling patients or clients for their bi-annual or annual check-up was to send a card telling them it was time for them to call in and made an appointment.  A very loosey…
The Winning Attitude

A More Profitable Practice

Like most healthcare professionals, you may have in your head the idea that perhaps your practice could be more profitable, more efficient, more organized. Just a sneaking feeling … maybe a bit vague though on how it can be achieved. Maybe…

Two Wolves Within

 From an old Indian Legend: An old Cherokee was teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, jealousy,…