To explain their failures, you might hear people say: “I don’t have a head for business which is why my practice is not doing well.” “Leaders are born to lead. I was born to follow. I’ll just be a good soldier.” “She inherited her musical skill from her father, but my dad is a truck […]
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To succeed, you need both force AND intelligence. If you use the correct amount of each, at the right times, you will succeed at anything you do. Unsuccessful Leadership You can find unsuccessful management everywhere. Certain leaders are too forceful: “Get 5 New Patients scheduled by tomorrow or you’re fired.” They might have short-term success,
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Can You Beat Procrastination? Hewlett-Packard recently published the following tips on the internet and said to share it, so that is what we are doing. Enjoy! Many of us juggle so many priorities that it’s tempting to put things off until the last minute in our efforts to keep up with our work without losing
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Many healthcare professionals whom we have had the pleasure of working with equated the idea of expanding their practice with doubling the current stress. But does it have to be? In a word, “NO!” Here are a couple of Quick Tips to help you improve the current scene and then to expand smoothly without adding
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Having worked with many hundreds of Canadian healthcare professionals for 18 years, we’ve observed that most of them do a fairly decent job of hiring the right staff but they THINK they haven’t – simply because they’re not coaching them into the winning team. To help your team achieve DREAM TEAM STATUS, here are 10
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First, the procrastination story: There were these three researchers who took a baby frog and popped it into a pot of boiling water. What do you think the frog did? If you answered “jumped out,” go to the head of the class! The impact was sudden enough to make it take quick, life-saving action. Then
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Some wonder if there is a “secret formula” for building a great practice. Well, there IS a basic, or underlying, formula. It is a very short formula, one word: INTENTION. Let’s take a look at exactly what intention is. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, intention is the “determination to do a specific thing or
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Want to have more new patients walking in your front door? Maybe you need to improve your front door! One of the easiest ways to increase new patient numbers is to update the image your practice projects. Many practices, having been around for a while, get a sort of tired, unchanging look that patients actually
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There are many marketing ideas and concepts that purport to help you increase the size of your practice. With over 24 years of experience in working with healthcare practices, and more than 1,300 clients consulted and trained by us, we have seen a full gamut of right and wrong, workable and unworkable marketing ideas. This
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More On Marketing Your Practice This is the second in a series of Practice Quick Tips addressing proven marketing concepts for expanding your practice. Here are a few more simple but effective ideas that you can implement to improve your marketing efforts and bring more business in the front door. (More to follow in subsequent
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Marketing Your Practice for Doubling Your Number of New Clients This is the first in a series of Practice Quick Tips addressing proven marketing concepts for expanding your practice. The basic rule for marketing is that the more you promote to your target market (potential clientele), the more new patients you will attract to your
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One of the keys to a successful practice is having an abundance of new patients calling in and walking through your front door. How do you do that without racking up a heavy advertising budget that could eat away all your hard-earned profits? Oddly enough, the answer is right inside your practice! Namely, word of
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