You already know how to manage a medical practice, but how do you go about managing your home life? It isn’t that different. The skills you use at work – organizing, planning, and coordinating staff – can be just as useful when managing your family. (more…)

Don’t bring your job with you!

When Memorial Day weekend began, our mind started to focus on the savored summertime season. Barbeques, swimming in pools, walks along the sea or just swinging in a back yard hammock to catch up on some well needed R&R are all part of the season’s fun, but too many of us forget to clock out at work, even if we are on a family beach vacation. (more…)

Working overtime is a normal practice in today’s job market. But who determines when burning the midnight oil begins to tip the scale to the “unhealthy” side  of living? (more…)

Having a successful career as an office manager requires a specific skill set. However, knowledge and ability is only half the picture. To really enjoy this job, you need a particular type of personality. Let’s explore some of the traits that will help you thrive in this demanding position. The DiSC assessment talks about 4 types of behavioral/personality based attributes that are helpful in this type of discussion:

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As a busy medical office manager, keeping up with the latest gadgets designed to help you “save time” can actually eat up your spare time. With your work computer, home computer, laptop, phone, PDA, or blackberry, trying to keep up with all your data is a challenge. This is especially true when you need to be able to access the latest versions of your files and all your software applications from multiple locations.

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As a medical office manager, I often wonder if anything is really getting ‘done’. On my way to the office I think of what I should do when I arrive. I should answer email, retrieve voice mail, return phone calls, plan my day and then everything will be okay. Right? It will run like clockwork and many, many tasks will get done.

 Not so fast.  I arrive and find there is something ‘someone’ overlooked and it needs to be done today.  Do you know ‘someone’?  That is the unnamed person in the office that never seems to be able to get anything done but in staff meetings they are named to carry out another order of business.

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I am working on a “What makes a GREAT Practice Manager” whitepaper.  This will be a collaborative effort of many practice manager contacts to be used for several purposes, including but not limited to: Practice Manager’s teaching a class, Doctors trying to find the perfect fit for a position and a Managers guide to live by.  If any of you have any ideas you would like to contribute to this paper please reply these ideas via this blog.  All ideas used will be credited to you in the white paper when published.  Please also let us know if it is acceptable to have our writer contact you for more information if necessary (interview, or clarification of your idea, etc).

It is a truism in life: “The little things add up.”  For the Office Manager trying to wrestle with a medical practice’s bottomline, it is adage to keep in mind.  There are many areas where a practice may be leaking money, and as Office Manager you may be able to plug some of them up. 

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