Management Skills Made Simple

A practice is as successful as each of its members is interested in contributing to its success. An individual is as successful as he or she actually contributes to the success of his or her group. Therefore, we can safely assume that in order to expand, succeed and thrive in today’s crazy, overly competitive environment, we all need to abide by agreed

You and your staff are all human beings, and you have feelings.  A lot of those feelings or emotions are not necessarily under complete control and could often be said to be negative.  Things happen, reactions occur, and stuff is said that may be injurious to otherwise fairly good relationships, right? Often, negative emotions can

There comes a point in your practice when you reach a cross-roads and you start wondering which path to take:  Should I ramp up the practice?  Or should I work out a sale price and prepare an exit strategy? In order to strategically work out which path you should take, there are many separate factors

Want to increase the energy level in the practice?  Want the team to show more initiative, positivity, resourcefulness, dedication and eagerness to accomplish great things?  Would you love a can-do attitude from one and all towards the growth of the practice? It is too easy to start creating mental barriers on how growth of the

Have you ever asked your staff to do a very particular thing and they do something else, either altogether wrong or slightly different than what you requested?  Or have you ever overheard the staff saying something completely wrong to a patient or another staff member, and you can’t drop what you’re doing to go and

If your practice is not billing more than you did pre-Covid-19, then we need to have a chat about this. Most of the really “on-top-of-things” marketing gurus are saying that you need to do 30% more marketing now than you did before.  People are distracted and have their attention being pulled in many directions so

Running a practice nowadays with a pandemic in the way is much more challenging than it used to be.  And one could make the mistake of thinking that the loss of profitability is due to that.  In fact, it could be a small part of it, but there are a lot of other factors that

There is most definitely not a shortage of marketing ideas to grow your practice! We have written about hundreds of these, but we are always looking online to find more ways to help you reach your potential patients.  Our favourite ideas usually have to do with giving exceptional care to your existing patients and inspiring

In the first place, the sole source of income for your practice is from patients or clients you provided service to.  If they are happy enough, they will not only pay you but may even bring you cookies or chickens, etc.  (I have heard the cutest stories on this.)  But, even better than that, they will come back

Running a successful, profitable practice at the best of times is never a piece of cake, but when you add in all the COVID-19 complications of physical distancing, extra sterilizing, scheduling, staff issues, and so on, you may find times when you feel like you are frozen into inaction. You don’t know where to start

As a professional, you have gone through stringent and extensive training in your profession in order to give your patients the quality of technical care they deserve to have.  And this is the way it should be. However, the other half of your “care” to your patients is the quality of service that you and

There sure are a lot of website creators in the marketplace but the questions are always, “Will they build me a good one that will attract new patients to my office?” and “How will I know BEFORE I hire them that they are right for me?” Case in point, I recently was going to be