Some people think success is only for the “lucky” or that “it’s a matter of being in the right place at the right time” or that “it’s who you know.” While it is a fact that there are people who have succeeded due to the above factors, did you know that everyone else can have
Having worked with more than 1,100 Canadian healthcare professionals since 1989, 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 dream team. While there is neither such thing as a perfect boss, nor a
When working to help expand a practice, our consultants frequently find that the staff and the owner are going in different directions because they have not sat down and created a mission statement. This is important whether there is one staff member or 20. What is a Mission Statement? To be effective, a mission statement
Denturists frequently ask me, “What is the typical successful denture clinic doing?” This is a hard one to answer as I don’t believe there is such thing as a “typical” denture clinic. Every clinic is unique, has a different set of goals, a unique patient base, different dental philosophies and a variety of styles of
Many healthcare professionals have the “feeling” that there are a lot of ways that their practice is being inefficient but either don’t know in what way exactly; or they do know, but don’t know what to do about it. However, they have the feeling that if they just “tightened up the ship” they would experience
How a practice is performing and how to increase its profitability is most efficiently accomplished through the use of statistics. Some people call them “performance metrics” and others may say “practice metric monitors,” but in any case, they are referring to the numbers which measure the productivity of the various areas of the practice. Statistics
In computer terminology, you can “refresh” a page on your computer by clicking a button and it will update the page with the latest information available to it. This got me to thinking that sometimes I would like to click a button in myself and refresh my image or my skills or my knowledge on
Does the patient run the scheduling of your practice, or do you? Virtually every denturist practice that we have worked with so far (about 90 across Canada) improved their scheduling of the various tasks necessary to make the practice run. When they got in control of the scheduling, their patients experienced better service, more on-time delivery,
Though hardworking, you’re frustrated at your lack of progress. Your New Year’s resolutions are the same year after year. You’re discouraged by the many things you’re NOT getting done. You’re dissatisfied with the unimportant things you ARE getting done. Being the CEO of a practice is not always easy, especially considering that an overriding amount
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