When you start a business, it is easy to wear all the hats. When you make the decision to expand and add team members, it is crucial to step into a leadership role which requires strategy, mindset shifts, and structure. Here are some suggestions to ensure your practice can run itself so you can take time off.
1 – Automate and Streamline
Eliminating work that is repetitive and manual and hiring administrative support is an important first step. Utilizing an all-in-one electronic health record, streamlining the intake process, and enabling online scheduling are some ways to begin. From there-communication, data tracking, accountability, hiring, and financials are all additional areas that automation and streamlining is possible. In order to run a self-sustaining, systemized practice, hiring the right administrative support can serve as the bridge between your vision and the daily operations that bring it to life.
2 – Infrastructure Development
Documenting everything in an Operations Manual is another important step. It serves as a blueprint for how your practice runs without you and also makes the business replicable and sustainable. It can train and empower your team by providing clear expectations, reducing repetitive questions, encouraging accountability, and providing consistency. Decision-making can become streamlined by eliminating confusion and providing answers. The manual defines what success looks like in every role, supports scaling and expansion, and increases the value of your business. Plus, it brings you peace of mind when you step away!
3 – Empower and Delegate
Empowering your team, delegating responsibility, and building a leadership team shift your practice from being operator-driven to system-driven. It takes you from offloading tasks to developing future leaders and sharing responsibility and decision-making. It allows you to shift from working in the business to working on the business. A leadership team in your group practice can improve clinical oversight, support clinician development, and enhance compliance. It becomes easier to track key metrics which creates both clarity and accountability which enables you to make data-drive decisions rather than operating off emotion.
4 – Strategic Growth
Strategic growth means expanding your business with purpose, alignment, and sustainability. Examples include expanding offerings, increasing clinical capacity, targeting marketing and growth, upgrading systems and operating more efficiently, developing leadership, and diversifying income streams. It can contribute to long-term sustainability, increase profitability and efficiency, and make alignment more likely.
5 – Freedom
Once you have automated and streamlined, developed your infrastructure, empowered and delegated, and growth strategically-freedom is possible! This doesn’t necessarily mean “not working” but it can mean having the time, energy, and structure to lead the business instead of run it, make value-aligned decisions, serve clients and your team more effectively, and live life without constant operational success.
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