Private practice mandates an entirely additional set of skills. Not instead of but in addition to your healers instincts. And honestly, failure to realize this, or especially educate our students creates every unpleasant and often painful experiences ranging from unrest to bankruptcy.
Times are never good or bad, only different.Sage advice from a master, spoken many years ago. I am not sure exactly who or I would give due credit.
Let’s take a look at these skills so essential to phenomenal success but so often overlooked. Number one on my list is the ability to organize and sort incoming “stuff” and data. Really. A messy desk (or home or personal life quite frankly) makes for a clouded mind. That’s why extreme and easy organization […]
Are your patients getting mixed messages, and you don’t even know it? Most especially, might there be an incongruence or two with regard to office policies which might not only be slowing you down, but could be like driving your car with the brakes on? Well, if you have more than one staff person, the […]
A doctor’s natural gifts. That’s what you possess as a healer. You can put patients at ease; physically and quickly abolish their pain and discomfort. Restore hope, and actually save their lives by doing what seemingly is very natural for you. Healers have commonalities in backgrounds and life experiences. Actually, our pathways as doctors of […]
Doctor, I know you know patient care has got to be your entire focus when seeing patients. The challenge is of course to do it rationally, thoroughly and not blind sighted by irrelevancy.
And when you’re not with patients, just make sure you are focused on and spending time with the things and people you value most in life.
There is a saying in marketing that there are no failures, only tests.
And so it is in the world we live in right now. What worked so great in practice a while back may not be working so well right now.
What do most people do? Stop trying!
If you have paid attention to Perfect Practice Web in the last 3 years, you have built your chiropractic or practice and indeed your personal life as a fortress, and have been largely unaffected by the events of this year, except to be a sounding board for those who reach out, and want to know why YOU are so happy.
What too many private practice “marketers” forget is just how changeable the landscape is! As a private practice owner it’s never enough to set up any online or social marketing campaign without paying regular (daily) attention.
About 100 years ago, Wallace Wattles warned those aspiring to make better lives for themselves to ignore politicians, naysayers and media. He called his big idea the “Certain Way”. Focussing endlessly only upon your desired outcomes with continuous gratitude being your dominant thought.
Now of course, this is something I regularly do with enjoyment. I can tell so much about a doc and his practice, based upon how the staff answers the phone. Timing, attitude, how questions are handled, are they organized? And are all their tools obviously at their fingertips?
The most important of all Private Practice Systems is…can you guess? Answering telephones by script. It is simply a mechanism to ensure two things. One is that patients are not turned off by what is said. The other is to obtain valuable information in terms of what parts of your marketing campaign are working. You have […]
My wife and daughter recently brought me home a copy of “I Me Mine”, which is as close to an autobiography of George Harrison as you can get. It’s a great read. I have always respected his strong faith, as well as his music.Some passages really shed light on how he applied ancient philosophies to modern life. In reality, its all about decisions we make every day.
One of our members recently so poignantly asked me ”John, you keep talking about all the changes. What do you mean, and what’s happening?”
So what I thought I would do is summarize how the events of the last 12 months have impacted doctor’s behaviors
Ask for suggestions to anticipate tougher spots in the day from the players, and put them into play if you can. Be a good listener. Then start your day with some energy and focus, as a team.
Without personal power, profit and influence, in your own life and practice, you are unlikely to learn from the past, deal with the present and plan as accurately as possible for the future. But just why are these so important?
When Was The Last Time You Conducted Your Own Outcomes Study? In reality, it’s all you have in private practice. There are some really simple ways to do this, but before we talk about that, here’s a reality check-up.
Take a real hard look on how you can add value added services and additional profit
centers to your private practice. Some are much better than others. Make sure they ADD TO
and do not detract from your image, purpose and vision.
One of the most difficult but yet most important things we must do in private practice is tell patients the truth. Most especially today we’re talking about truth surrounding patients own lifestyle, health problems and other issues, which may have caused or perpetuated their illness.
Physical & Emotional clutter has a significant impact on your Private Practice, and of course your life and your health. The more you clean up and break away from, the more room you create for the right things! Keep it simple. You won’t regret it.