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 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...