Ever feel like “the walking dead” some days? Everything has become a monotony? Have to push yourself to keep going? There are probably a whole bunch of possible reasons and a million cures, but I have observed healthcare professionals closely for 25 years now and there are two sources for boredom that are the most […]
The staff of one of my clients recently had some sweatshirts made saying, “I’m a Vet Tech, What’s YOUR superpower?” How’s that for confidence in who you are! It got me to thinking, what is MY superpower? Maybe I have more than one! I thought of one that everyone who knows me says: “You always
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This is a famous line out of a great movie “Cool Hand Luke,” and while it was said in a bit of a threatening way in the movie, it has always stuck with me as a truism in almost any management difficulty I have encountered. Here are some of the symptoms of a failure to
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Going in to work every day can be a drudgery or a feel like a duty to show up. Same old, same old. Everyone reports in and gets on with the day. Then there are the bad news bears (sometimes patients, sometimes staff) that bring in negativity and bad news to the practice. Brings everyone
A practice is as successful as each of its members is interested in contributing to its success. Also, an individual is as successful as he or she actually contributes to the success of his or her group. So we can safely assume that, in order to expand, succeed and thrive in today’s crazy, overly competitive
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Whether you have been in practice for years, or whether it is still a figment of your imagination, a practice can be like a blank page. You as the owner get to write on it what you want. It is YOUR page. If you already have a practice, think back to what you wanted when
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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
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Hopefully, the first thought that you had, in terms of how to improve profitability, was not “increase my fees.” While it is always possible, if you are billing below the provincial fee guide, that you SHOULD increase your fees, this is not necessarily the first thing you should do. In actual fact, one of the
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We held a Power Practice Conference this past weekend with this awesome speaker, Patrick Valtin. He wowed us with 3 days of valuable, practical data. Here is one of the concepts he put forward. Just as products have a life cycle or shelf life, so do business owners and managers. You can go from the
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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
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Over 25 years of analyzing more than 5,000 individual practices, I have heard many times that “the reason my numbers are down is because of the RECESSION.” Many times! Even in affluent economic climates! Many practice owners whose stats are down have phoned around to other practitioners in their area to see if they too
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It’s easy to be lazy and incompetent. Anyone can do that. But those who want to succeed in life find that it is done by learning and working at it. One of the big traps that can keep one from succeeding is making excuses and justifying why one is not successful or has failed at
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