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:...
by Chad Fleming | Jan 20, 2016 | Career Options, Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
As the CEO of your company, you are ultimately responsible for every staff member that you hire and their success in your optometric practice. Starting the application process and finding the right staff can be frustrating and lead to bad hires. A bad hire is not only...