by Chad Fleming | Jan 24, 2018 | Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Practice Growth, Pursue Growth, Staff Management
Three years ago, I was approaching burnout. I was seeing 18-20 patients per day in my optometry clinic and I thought my fingers were going to fall off from constant charting. Patient care was suffering because I spent more time in front of the computer screen than I...
by Chad Fleming | Nov 11, 2016 | Buy/Sell, Day in the Life, Finding the Right Practice, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management
Through OptometryCEO, I have had the privilege of coaching hundreds of optometrists in their careers. The most common request for advice comes from employed optometrists looking to buy into or purchase a practice. They want my unbiased opinion of their situation. They...
by Chad Fleming | Sep 7, 2016 | Career Options, Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Practice Growth, Pursue Growth, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
As an optometric practice owner, do you find the amount of compensation you are paying out is pushing the high end of absurd? In his book Good Profits, billionaire businessman Charles Koch writes that incentives should be solely centered on the value an individual...
by Chad Fleming | Aug 12, 2016 | Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Practice Growth, Pursue Growth, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
A wise person once asked, “Who makes the best business partner?” Dumb, lazy person. Dumb, hard worker. Smart, lazy person. Smart, hard worker. Most of us would pick the smart, hard worker. However the wise person will choose a smart, lazy person any day. The smart,...
by Chad Fleming | Jul 27, 2016 | Career Options, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
Managing the optometric practice is one of the most difficult pieces of the CEO puzzle. The people you are trying to manage are sometimes emotional, unpredictable, and fickle. Sometimes they leave. At times people leave for good reasons, or situations that are out of...
by Chad Fleming | Jul 13, 2016 | Career Options, Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Student to OD, Time Management, Uncategorized
Right now we have two staff members who have decided to make optometry their life profession and are applying to optometry school. These future ODs are excited, and their excitement is contagious to the rest of the staff, even the sometimes complacent and burned out...