by Chad Fleming | Feb 4, 2015 | Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Practice Growth, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
Do you find your staff making the same mistakes over and over? When confronted, do they say no one ever told them differently? Never mind that the issue was discussed in the past two staff meetings. We’ve noticed staff members rarely save staff meeting notes for...
by Chad Fleming | Jan 28, 2015 | Buy/Sell, Career Options, Manage with Excellence, Management, Uncategorized
If you’ve been practicing optometry for more than 10 years, you should plan your exit strategy. Many optometrists put off thinking about their transition to retirement. Unfortunately, today’s practicing ODs will not have the luxury of seeing graduating...
by Chad Fleming | Jan 21, 2015 | Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Uncategorized
Finding a partner can feel like searching for a misplaced, unnamed file on your computer. Which search criteria will bring up the right one? Associate optometrists who desire to own and manage their own practice are a dying breed. Over the past 10 years, more...
by Chad Fleming | Jan 14, 2015 | Career Options, Day in the Life, Time Management, Uncategorized
Maintaining a successful optometry career requires certain disciplines. An important yearly discipline for every optometrist is updating a curriculum vitae (CV). With the right planning, an update can be completed quickly with simple copying and pasting in editing...
by Chad Fleming | Jan 7, 2015 | Buy/Sell, Management, Staff Management, Uncategorized
Selling an optometry practice is not like it once was. Decades ago, when a solo optometrist approached retirement he would put his office up for sale and within 12 to 18 months the practice would sell. The buyer might have requested the seller remain working in the...