Professional Development
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476What Are Your Revenue-Producing Activities? Here’s How to Determine What to Delegate.
Knowing where you're most needed & where you can delegate.
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557Why I’m Afraid I’ll Flunk Retirement
Creating a timeline for retirement that works for you.
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1.1K2 Books that Showed Us How to Create Office Systems, Become Practice Leaders & Pay Ourselves
Business books that helped two ODs greatly improve their practice's operations.
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1.4KWhat Running Taught Me that Spurred 30% Growth in CL Revenue
The lessons you can learn from a sport you love.
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1.5KOD Under Pressure: Signs You’re NOT OK & How to Get Relief
Measures you can take to better cope with stress.
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3.2K3 Practice Mistakes Costing Me Thousands of Dollars that I Turned Around
Identifying & correcting dire management mistakes.
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2.2KDo You Have the “Grit” to Grow a $1 Million Practice?
Developing the perseverance to achieve significant success.
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2.3KBy the Numbers: How Many ODs Are Actually Practicing Medical Eyecare?
The many remaining opportunities to grow medical eyecare.
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5376 Things to Do to Get the Most Out of Optical Conferences & Events
Getting the most powerful ideas out of industry events.
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1.9K4 Things I Have Learned About Getting the Best Out of Newly Graduated Associate ODs
Making it more likely new OD grads succeed in your practice.
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1.1K3 CE Courses that Helped Me Launch 3 Profitable Practice Niches
By Vittorio Mena OD, MS Sept. 8, 2021 Continuing education helps you be a better doctor, and it can also help you...
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1.9K3 Powerful Lessons that Can Transform Your Career If Learned Early
Key lessons for new grads and seasoned ODs alike.
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2.9KThe All-Star Team of Experts that Enabled My New Practice to Grow 30% Annually
Getting the guidance you need when launching a new practice.
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1.0KSix Degrees of Optometric Separation: My Most Powerful Professional Networking
By Benjamin Kachelman, OD April 21, 2021 Professional networking can take you to new heights as an optometrist. You can meet people...
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1.5KWhy & How I Got Certified As an OD to Administer COVID-19 Vaccinations
By Margaret L. Gibson, OD April 14, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic is the most devastating international crisis most people alive today have...
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4.5KDiversity, Equity & Inclusion: The Industry Partner Helping My Practice Do Much Better
Promoting diversity, equity & inclusion in optometry--and in your own practice.
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926How I Became an OD & Learned to Optimize Forks in the Road
One OD's path to optometry & what it teaches about the value of flexibility.
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4.5K5 Red Flags of an Unethical Employer
What to look out for to ensure your practice is ethical.
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2.0KThe Best Employer for Me: 3 ODs Share How they Found their Ideal Workplace
ODs explain how they found the employer they had been looking for.
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1.9KMy 3 Greatest Leadership Challenges & Solutions
Managing leadership challenges to better serve patients & become more profitable.
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2.2K4 Reasons for an OD to Consider Fill-In Work
The perhaps surprising benefits of working as a fill-in OD.
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2.4KThe 3 Best CE Courses I Took During the Lockdown
By Benjamin Kachelman, OD Oct. 28, 2020 The pandemic, with the accompanying lockdowns of the spring, has been trying. One of the...
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2.6K6 Steps to Become a Chief Vision Officer
Why I am a "chief vision officer," and not a "president" or "CEO."
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2.2K3 Keys to Thriving in the New Work Environment Created by COVID-19
Tips for succeeding in our pandemic-impacted workplace.
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2.0K10 Activities to De-Stress During COVID-19 Closures
Tips for relaxing in the heat of the crisis.
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1.6KStudent Debt Forgiveness: Is It the Key to Saving Independent Optometry?
The link between debt forgiveness & the future of independent optometry.
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1.8K4 Mid-Career Crisis Turnaround Strategies
Tips for making it through an optometric mid-career slump.
