by Chad Fleming | May 25, 2016 | Career Options, Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
Understood rules of engagement among competing optometry practices lay the groundwork for professionalism and ethical business practices. For our purposes, I define competitors as any company within a 50-mile radius that practices optometry, opticianary, or...
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 | 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...
by Chad Fleming | Oct 28, 2015 | Career Options, Finding the Right Practice, Student to OD, Time Management, Uncategorized
Imagine waking up every work day dreading going to the clinic. The practice is understaffed, and everyone avoids addressing ever-present problems. What a miserable way to spend a day, a week, a year–and a career. Your career in optometry does not need to be like...
by Chad Fleming | Aug 12, 2015 | Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Uncategorized
What do you do with an employee who has a post through two sections of her ear and a quarter-sized gauge in her earlobe? The younger generation of staff members are more likely to have body piercings that may or may not be suitable for a healthcare facility, and, more...