by Chad Fleming | Apr 6, 2016 | Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Practice Growth, Pursue Growth, Uncategorized
Staying on top of the optometric game’s changing rules can be daunting. The optical department especially has its own regulations. Vision benefit companies like VSP and Eyemed have cut reimbursements down to a dispensing fee, so it’s difficult to find the...
by Chad Fleming | Mar 30, 2016 | Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Practice Growth, Pursue Growth, Uncategorized
The advertising industry understands product education and uses it to win people over to their respective products. Through Facebook ads and ESPN commercials, we are constantly being educated about what we need and why we need it. When patients receive education from...
by Chad Fleming | Mar 23, 2016 | Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Practice Growth, Pursue Growth, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
Everyone wants a piece of the pie. Decreasing margins and healthcare initiatives that focus solely on cost savings cause many of us to wonder if the good days will ever return. Making a decent profit in today’s environment is a difficult task for even the most astute...
by Chad Fleming | Mar 16, 2016 | Day in the Life, Finding the Right Practice, Manage with Excellence, Management, Uncategorized
The farther I get in my career the harder it is to face mistakes that I have made. All optometrists make mistakes, the important thing it to learn from those mistakes. “The hardest thing about being a doctor,” Dr. Karen Delgado said, “is that you...
by Chad Fleming | Mar 9, 2016 | Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
Scheduling a meeting can be time-consuming. Finding a suitable time and date for multiple doctors and all staff members sometimes requires numerous emails over the course of several days. Instead of spending your valuable time, let technology assist you. Doodle.com*...
by Chad Fleming | Mar 2, 2016 | Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
Go anywhere these days and you’ll see people checking their phones and accessing social media. That’s why as an optometry business owner, you most likely have a office policy detailing proper use of smart phones during work hours. But what about wearable...
by Chad Fleming | Feb 24, 2016 | Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
Technology encompasses most areas of the optometry office. There is technology in clinical equipment, practice management software, electronic health records (EHR), information transfer, and hardware. Keeping current with all this technology is expensive and possibly...
by Chad Fleming | Feb 17, 2016 | Career Options, Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
Successfully managing staff may be the most difficult aspect of running an optometry practice today. Keeping up with new technology and yearly updates to insurance plans is challenging, but nothing is as unpredictable as managing people. The small optometry business...
by Chad Fleming | Feb 10, 2016 | Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
Finding, training, and retaining great personnel is the key to a great–and profitable–optometry practice. Of the three actions, training is the most important. Staff need to be trained in your practice’s specific way of doing things. Even if...
by Chad Fleming | Feb 3, 2016 | Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
Most optometry practices have months when the schedule is not bursting at the seams. This can be discouraging and stressful, or it can be beneficial and rejuvenating, depending how you as a leader approach it. Here are three ways to make the most of a slow schedule:...