By Brad McCorkle When it comes to recruiting staff for your practice or organization, do you consider the various characteristics and “selling” features...
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Recruitment Via Social Media: Screen and Find Best Candidates
By Scot Morris, OD Social media can provide a clear picture of job candidates and help you find ideal matches for your staffing...
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Add Associate, Add to Your Patient Base
Adding an associate OD to your practice can build your patient base, even after the associate moves on... Many Associate Patients Outlast...
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Part IV: Optometric Business Innovators 2011
Practice Pearls & Slideshow: Practice Management Doc Stars Meet 35 optometric business innovators, who have each created a robust practice through their creativity...
Practice Pearls & Slideshow: Practice Management Doc Stars
Meet 35 optometric business innovators, who have each created a robust practice through their creativity and ingenuity. Review of Optometric Business and...
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On-Target Job Posting = Staffing Bull’s Eye
By Brad McCorkleBy honing the language and branding that describes your practice, you can create job ads that allow you to hire...
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Bridge the Execution Gap: Evaluate Yourself as Practice CEO
By Arthur GearyThis is the second in a series of articles examining the discipline of execution in business: Bridge the Execution Gap: Leadership-Culture-Process, the 3...
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Practice Pearls & Slideshow: Practice Management Doc Stars
Meet 35 optometric business innovators, who have each created a robust practice through their creativity and ingenuity. Review of Optometric Business and...
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Hiring and Firing by the Numbers: Calculate Which Employees are Worth their Weight in Payroll
By Scot Morris, ODDeciding who to hire and fire should not be a guessing game, or a matter of simply weeding out...
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Legally Safe Employee Termination: Drop Sub-Par Staffers While Protecting Your Practice
By Pamela Miller, OD, JDYou can safeguard and strengthen your practice by identifying under-performing, or dangerous, employees, and letting them go in...
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Total Staff Buy-In: Involve Entire Staff to Reach Practice Sales Goals
By Jeffrey Kegarise, ODFinding an effective sales strategy is step one to increasing dispensary sales. Step two is aligning the priorities of...
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Are You Managing or Motivating Your Staff?
By Craig Bowen, OD“Managing or Motivating?” This is a bit of a trick question, since managing and motivating staff are not mutually...
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A Primer on Hiring Techniques: What ODs Need to Know About the Science of Finding—and Keeping—Good Staff
By Daniel Abramson Optometrists tend to think there is not much to hiring office staff: a few minutes meeting a person, then...
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Staffing: The Key Issue in All Practices
By ROB Editors When optometrists are asked what is the biggest challenge they face in running a successful practice, one issue comes...
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Enrich Staff Positions for Greater Performance
By Gary L. Moss, OD, MBA, CPC, FAAO The most productive offices--those which function efficiently as a team--rely on collaboration to accomplish...
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Making Staff Matter–How Design Plays a Role
By Amir Khoshnevis, ODOur staff meeting room is truly one of the nicest rooms in the building. This location is 5,600 square...
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Executive Coaching for the Practice CEO
By Mike Rothschild, ODTo figure out some particularly difficult issues for both my practice and my consulting / speaking career, I worked with...
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Hitting the Staffing Sweet Spot How to Compute Optimal Staff Size
By Judith LeeWhat is the magic number of staff you need to best serve patients--without draining profits? Regularly running a staff-size reality...
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Hiring Top Talent: Assess Will-Do vs. Can-Do
By Daniel Abramson Job candidates may be competent in the hard skills you need, such as sales and marketing expertise or proficiency as an optician....
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Decisive Hiring: Put Time on Your Side for Effective Staffing
By Daniel Abramson Move with calculated timing to hire the best workforce for your practice. Your most promising job candidates will be lured away...
