There are two channels or vectors for marketing your practice. The first is internal, the second is external. Internal deals with dissemination and promotion within your practice…
Articles
The goal of The Practice Solution Magazine is to provide practice owners with practice management information that will assist them in achieving success.
Office Manager Purpose
The Office Manager is a key staff member in any private practice. A well-trained, positive and experienced Office Manager is worth his or her weight in gold…
Putting New Employees on the Job
Practice owners bring on new employees for a variety of reasons. Often, when practices are undergoing expansion of production and income, they require increased staffing…
Tips for Hiring People During the Pandemic
The biggest issue practice owners have shared with us since the start of the pandemic has been the inability to hire new staff. Many offices that we’ve spoken to…
Did you hire the wrong person?
A recent survey conducted with practice owners across the US revealed that the number-one management problem they have is personnel issues. Among the issues mentioned by hundreds of owners surveyed were…
Turn a 40+ hour week into a 30 hour week and stay profitable
Dealing with staff can often be a confusing and complex subject. Certainly if a staff member was overtly unwilling, refusing to do what was expected, gossiping, constantly complaining and so on, this is a staff member you wouldn’t tolerate. On the other hand…
The Responsibilities of Managers and Staff
Dealing with staff can often be a confusing and complex subject. Certainly if a staff member was overtly unwilling, refusing to do what was expected, gossiping, constantly complaining and so on, this is a staff member you wouldn’t tolerate. On the other hand…
Screening Applicants
Finding a new employee is a very time consuming process. To consolidate efforts and streamline the initial stage of the interview and selection process, have all of the applicants who meet the basic criteria…
Dealing with a Problem Employee
I received an email from a doctor having a staff problem. I replied to her and thought this might benefit some other people out there. Please see our discussion below: Hi Ken, As an employer, how can you tell your employee to stop his/her: gum smacking, not to laugh...
Proper Case Presentation and Better Case Acceptance
We have found that doctors can lose thousands of dollars per month because they are unaware of some of the principles associated with proper case presentation and case acceptance. In addition, sometimes the best treatment planning and case presentation doesn’t result...