Transforming Your Organization
Personal Development
We expand the question of "How can I build a great practice?" to "How can I build a great organization?"
A great practice is just a part of your organization, and will grow naturally given the proper supportive features and business management.
Development of a healthy, stable and profitable chiropractic clinic begins with development of the doctor. Leaning new skills, new bodies of information and gaining access to new tools is critical. We always start at the personal level, because the organization is largely a reflection of you.
"I’ve got a great personal organizer, but I really don’t know how to use it!"
Keeping your personal life in balance with your professional life can be a major challenge. This area deals with helping you create the time to do the things that you truly value, and to release the habits and time traps that we frequently fall into.
- Time management concepts and execution:
- Technical time management choices and building habit patterns: computerization of
schedules, linking of multiple schedules, mobile enablement;
- Ending conflicts: disputes, arguments, lawsuits: formalizing any working agreements, identification and resolution of ongoing conflicts
- Understanding competing commitments and overcoming the resistance to change:
- Laws of Attraction, keeping inputs in line with desired end results:
"My CPA says I’m making money, but I feel broke!"
Nearly every client has significant challenges in this area, regardless of current economic or business conditions. This skill set will help you understand the basics of the economics of your practice, how to manage or control costs, and how to increase profitability. We reduce the management of your basic cash flow in the office to a simple set of of procedures that any doctor can follow. Further, we spend time and provide tools to allow you to plan properly for larger life events, such as wealth accumulation, debt retirement, college costs, and others.
- Understanding basics of money flow: sufficiency, risks, opportunity cost, accumulation, investing versus speculating.
- Overhead: personal and business. Tracking through quickbooks and/or quicken. How to read and organize your category reports or profit and loss statements.
- Budgets: choices and planning
- Wealth accumulation, debt retirement. Types of debt and cost of money.
- Cushions and security for a doctor. Overall financial flow plan for solo doctor.
- AR and AP management
- Online banking
"I’m bored and frustrated in practice."
"I feel like I’m going in circles."
"I’m tired of fighting an uphill battle."
This section is for guidance and tools to become a better leader and resource for your entire organization. We acknowledge the many roles you are required to play and help you become more proficient at all of them.
- Goal writing: subjective and objective approaches - Goal tracking and rewards
- Mission construction using values>vision> mission format.
- Use of stand and enrollment for overall growth empowerment:
- Leadership styles and development
- Understanding personality types via MBTI, enneagram:
- communication and learning styles via NLP:
- Listening: three layers:
- Company culture and company story
- E-myth understanding of practice operation:
- Role development in the clinic: healer, manager,employer, entrepreneur, controller/CFO, motivator, teacher
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't,
by Jim Collins - Crucial Conversations, by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan,
Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey - Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- Immunity to Change, by Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't,