Checklist

You don’t get what you expect, you get what you inspect. I remember hearing that years ago, its been said by a million people, but its such a great line. Especially as you grow your practice. If you start small, one doctor, a few staff, its easy to an eye on everyone. However as you start growing larger, and hopefully getting some time off outside of the clinic, it becomes more difficult. As your clinic expands, and your hours get longer, you cant be there all the time its open. In fact, that is kinda the opposite point of growing it. As we got larger and added more hours, i had more free time to get out of the clinic.

If you don’t have the right team in place, this will be difficult. But, hopefully you get them, if not do it! Get the right people on the bus. But, even with the best people, they need accountability. Trust me, if they were capable of doing it all themselves with no supervision, they wouldn’t be working for you, they would be doing it on their own!

So, you need accountability systems. There are a lot of methods for this, and you can do a whole seminar on this alone. But one of the quickest easiest tools is to have staff checklists. Everyone on your team has a daily checklist, things that need to be done each day, each week, each month. Also, lines for anything that i need to know today, my win for the day and things like that. Other task should have checklists. IN our office every staff person has one and one or two others. They all need to be done and put in the bin outside my personal office at the end of the day. I don’t stay till closing, so the next morning i can review them.

You can help the staff with the checklist in the beginning, but ultimately, it is there responsibility to update their checklist for new duties and modify it over time. So, get it done! everyone needs a checklist, ASAP!

You don’t get what you expect, you get what you inspect!!