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Associate Practice

Which Associate Practice Model Suits You?

By Tips & Guides, Your Practice

In your eagerness to apply your professional skills have you overlooked the importance of designing your business model? In chiropractic college and the universities it’s not uncommon for academics and undergraduate lecturers to view the business side of our profession with disdain and sometimes contempt. As a result many chiropractors do not think about their professional activities as a business and as a result are doomed to working a job that centers on their favorite hobby – chiropractic. The idea…

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Coaching

Smart Thinking

By Quest, Support

Warning. This article has a push towards Quest and its services – a sort of infomercial if you will. It is in response to the questions and situations we encounter with chiropractors seeking our services on a daily basis and I thought it worthy of discussion. As a chiropractor in the ‘trenches’, it is easy to cocoon within your practice ‘bubble’ and not notice the familiar things that are not working but you still keep doing. There is one thing…

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Cooperation

Beyond Cooperation

By Tips & Guides

As you know, your Chiropractic Assistant plays an ever-increasing role in the success of your practice. Your CAs are not only masters at administrative work; they have interpersonal relationship, communication, education, inspiration and problem-solving skills to name a few. The leverage that you gain through your CA team contributes significantly to your prosperity and your freedom. The power of a group of people with a common vision is massive. Many stories are told of the ingenuity of groups of people…

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Practice Education

Looking Behind to Move Ahead

By Chiropractic Journey, Tips & Guides, Your Practice

We live in a moment-by-moment world. People present to your practice wanting current health issues fixed – now. They want you to provide instant results and then they won’t worry about it until next time the issue occurs and at that time they will seek the same ‘band-aid’ solution. It seems like the short-term perspective increasingly drives people in their decisions on life and their health. Well, how do you change this with your practice members who have learned that…

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Journey Pack

What do Your Practice Members really NEED?

By Tips & Guides, Your Practice

The majority of people come to see you initially driven by what they WANT. It may be pain or disease of some other ‘problem’ that is impinging on their life and giving them pain or distress of some sort. As we have discussed previously the apparent WANT (symptom, sign, annoyance etc.) is not the real reason – it’s usually got something to do with the inconvenience factor associated with that issue and their life’s activities. Anyway, the fact is that the person…

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character traits

Your Practice’s ‘Song Sheet’

By How we can help, Tips & Guides

If you downloaded The Ultimate CA Hiring Toolkit you will relate to the band/orchestra analogy I used. We compared your practice team as a group of individual musical ‘instruments’ who are all singing off the same ‘song sheet’. When they are collectively on song they create a harmonious melody despite their radically different notes and sounds. In the download we gave you a way to ascertain the gaps in the skills of your team. Today I want to address the ‘song…

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Hiring process

Do you have a CA on your team by default or by design?

By How we can help, Tips & Guides

I was speaking to a chiropractor yesterday who was grumbling about his CA dropping the ball, not getting things done and generally not taking care of business. He has single doctor practice and she is the sole CA. He was constantly wasting time checking up on her every action and he wasn’t happy, in fact he was VERY unhappy with the situation and it was reflecting on his practice. He quickly told me though that she was really nice with…

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Associate Practice Mastery

By Associate Practice, Quest, Your Practice

In my 40 plus years experience in creating and running associate practices I wouldn’t want to practice any other way. However my observation from coaching untold hundreds of chiropractors is that relatively few associate relationships work to the mutual satisfaction of both parties. It seems like there is a typical pattern here. The associate’s initial incantations of “I would give anything to work for you” soon turn into “you expect me to do too much” or “I’m not getting enough…

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chiropractic vision

Light Up Their Lives – Chiropractic Vision

By Inspiration, Quest

BJ Palmer described the chiropractic clinical interaction as being of two components, the quantity and the quality. The quantity factor addresses the relationship between the physical factors of brain, spine, nerve system, organs, tissues and cells. This includes our attention on the correction of interference to the structural and the neuronal components of the subluxation complex. The quality factor is the ‘soft’ side of our attention. Quality addresses interference to thinking, perception and the emotional factors. This directly affects the…

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Health Care

What is the most appropriate health care?

By Inspiration, Quest

It’s common to think that the people presenting at your practice want an immediate outcome to their presenting condition and nothing more. The thought is that people want a treatment for their given malady and they want the care to be effective, short term and affordable. There is a tendency for chiropractors and practice members to focus on the ‘content’ of the signs and symptoms rather than the ‘context’ around the journey of life and the actions we employ to…

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Intentions

The Road to Hell

By Inspiration

Today is my birthday and I am taking the opportunity to look back over the few short years of my life and gratefully consider the magnificent journey that it has been to this point. As I sit in our family room looking out at the boats on the water as the palm trees gently blow in the sea breeze I see my little (well actually quite big) reminder to think big. The sign ‘Infinite Possibilities’ spans the entire width of…

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Vision

The Smallest Steps That Are The Biggest Steps To A Fantastic Practice

By Tips & Guides, Your Practice

Rather than setting the usual big resolutions for 2017 that are usually impossible to achieve and often easy to break, we suggest that you act small and locally – very locally in fact. When it comes to creating a fantastic practice the vision and associated actions that you have for your team and practice members along with those people close by is your most effective instrument of empowerment. Your ability to affect and influence the future of those in your…

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