How to Make Hiring an Associate Pay Off
Hiring an associate is supposed to make your life easier. So why does it sometimes do the opposite?
You picture more production, fewer clinical days, and more freedom. Instead, you're struggling to fill their schedule, your production takes a hit, and now you're managing another doctor's expectations.
Adding another doctor doesn't automatically create more freedom. Your practice has to be ready...
The Difference Between Fixing and Creating
You can spend an entire year improving your practice and still end up with almost the exact same practice.
You fix scheduling problems, improve systems, handle team issues, and put out fires. Yet you're still working the same hours, carrying the same responsibilities, and dealing with the same frustrations. That's because fixing what's wrong isn't the same as building what you want.
Most owners...
The Ownership Shift
The more capable you are, the easier it is to accidentally make your practice depend on you.
You’re good at interviewing, so you keep interviewing. You’re good at handling conflict, so everyone brings it to you. You’re good with upset patients, so you’re always the one who gets pulled in.
It feels efficient in the moment. Over time, though, you teach your team that anything import...
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