Set New Year ’ s Goals for Your Practice

“The ability to set goals is essential to effective problem solving; and by default, is essential to self-management, and self-determination.”  –The Brain Injury Resource Center, Seattle The new year sees us setting personal resolutions and goals for bettering our lives. As clinicians, we start patient treatment plans by establishing realistic, measurable and timely goals. However, as businesses, we often let the new year pass by without establishing goals to improve our clinics’ business practices. This year, my business partner—audiologist Melissa Wilson—and I challenge fellow audiologists and speech-language pathologists to take a moment to set long- and short-term goals for your practice. We recently reserved an afternoon to create 2017 goals for our private practice. Much like thinking about personal resolutions for the New Year, we began throwing out idea after idea. We soon realized we needed a more narrow focus. This came in the form of revisiting our practice’s original mission. Our often hectic, day-to-day work can cause us to lose sight of our founding goals and direction. We want to share the areas where we hope to improve this year and hope they help others make business goals for this new year! Space refresh—de-clutter and organize. Item number six of The New York Times article “11 Ways to Be a Better Person in 2017” is simply, “Get rid of stuff.” One of our original visions was to create an open space where patients and their families ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Practice Management private practice Professional Development Source Type: blogs