welcome to the july edition of paeds biz
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Welcome to the July Edition of
Paeds BizHow to improve your
Paediatric Private Practice
An Introduction to Cathy LoveOccupational Therapist, Coach, Author and Speaker
For first time readers a quick intro, I am Cathy Love and I am the founding director of Nacre Consulting and I work with parents and disability service providers to achieve brilliant outcomes for children with special needs. I provide a range of services:
- Private practice coaching to business owners
- Family Service Coaching for parents to help them manage their child’s team and services
- Clinical supervision to individuals and allied health professional teams
- Service delivery consultation to disability service providers
More to be read about all that over on my website www.nacre.com.au
Each month I write up news, useful information and pearls of wisdom for those working with children and families in the disability sector. Given that it is a rapidly changing landscape and one that is increasingly privatised there is typically lots of news to be shared.
“Paeds Biz” is a dedicated online easy to read FREE magazine for Australian allied health professionals working with children and families.
This months topics include:(Click through to an article below)
Business Plan Bootcamp
Paeds Biz Forum Review
June 30, End of one financial year, start of another
Tips for managing Billable Hours
Financial Fluency
NDIS: I’ve seen the Future
Becoming Chief – How to lead your child’s special needs tribe
Notice Board
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Paeds Biz Forum Review
What a day.
We all learnt so much, doubled our management mojo and leftwith heavy To Do Lists but a positive vibe with which to Get StuffDone. Thank you for your glowing feedback on the day and thefollow up conversations. To date business plans have been written,websites re-written, book keepers engaged, blogs written,newsletters started, dinner meetings with referrers and more.
Here is what some of our attendees had to say:
“All the speakers were clear communicators who were in tune with the needsof small business owners”
“I particularly enjoyed the practicality of the course
“The fast pace was fabulous”
“Great that it was all targeted specifically at allied health”
“I particularly enjoyed the variety of presenters”
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Yes there were requests, loud requests for future
Forum’s and business events.
Stay tuned.
June 30, End of one financial year, start of another
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“Successes come in all sizes and is defined by you. ”
In the dash across the finish line we don’t always stop and reflecton the business and clinical distance we have covered in theprevious twelve months.
It’s truly fascinating to review the weeks, reminisce, cringe andacknowledge the truth that we work hard, really hard.
Celebrate your successes – you will be delighted at how many thereare.
The average number of referrals per month, the best month forincome, the total number of families you served, or the number ofproducts you sold in the year. Good systems provide this data withonly a few clicks.
Hunt out and claim, loud and proud your private practice successesfor the 2015-2016 year.
Now write them down. All of them. On a beautiful piece of paper.Frame it, file it, gaze at it.
During my private practice coaching conversations I am often asked to help with this issue. Together we unpack the challenges and build unique solutions for the owner. Let’s take a look at the moving parts.
Billable hours is easily defined as the number of hours per day a therapist is expected to be delivering billable services.
When you engage employees you have to manage billable hours, when you have contractors you don’t. Simple.
If it can be measured it can be managed.
Yes you may have to speak to your therapists about upping their billable hours. Be like a boss.
Performance management helps therapists hit their targets.
Help therapists hit their billable hours targets by ensuring a steady flow of new and returning clients and by having uberefficient admin systems.
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Tips for Managing Billable Hours
How clearly do you communicate your billable hours expectations?
The world of finance has its own language. As businessowners we need to understand these words, and I meanreally understand them so that we can best manage legallycompliant, powerful and profitable businesses. Here aresome of the core financial words.
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Financial Fluency
Revenue Net Income
Income Trading whilst insolvent
Gross Income Creditors
Chart of accounts Debtors
P&L Statement GST
Expenses Profit
Balance Sheet BAS
Budget Overhead costs
For a full list of definitions head over to the full article in Paeds Biz
This statement has two famous and very different endings.Applied to the NDIS, which would you choose?
and it works. Lincoln Steffans 1936
brother: it is murder. Leonard Cohen 1992
July 1st sees NDIS live and national. We have now done so much consulting in the NDIS that I reckon I’ve seen the future, and…
Planning Gets Better - It certainly won’t be pretty for a while, although it will get better as the new planners learn their jobs and the sheer pressure of numbers eases
Clients are also Customers - Although we see a lot of client stickiness in these early days of the NDIS, in the future people will vote with their individualised funded feet.
Serious New Shortcomings - My biggest worry in the NDIS future is the many people with disability at the margins, those not eligible to become participants (the estimate is up to 900,000 people)
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NDIS – I’ve Seen the Future RIP Bureaucratic Management - The NDIS margins are so thin, organisations cannot afford much management and emerging software will replace many of the functions anyway.
Autonomous Frontline Staff - It’s a self managed teams kind of future
No More Offices - People are going to master the office-less organisation by using great software and diverting the building cost savings into processes for building great teams.
Some Not for Profits Dead - Too many organisations are doing too little, too late, to survive in the NDIS.
Winners and Losers - Like always, there are winners and losers but it looks to me like some of the winners this time might be the underdogs, people with disability
Guest writer Roland Naufal is one of Australia’s most knowledgeable disability professionals and has spent the last two years working on the design of the NDIS, leading the NDIS Community Engagement Project for the National Disability & Carer Alliance. Roland is a Founding Director Of Disability Service Consulting. http://disabilityservicesconsulting.com.au/
As a parent of a child with special needs there is always a lot going on.Parents may feel overwhelmed by child development experts, therapy,appointments and complex systems. This leaves parents tired, overwhelmedand feeling guilty that they should be able to do it all for their child.
Becoming Chief is book written for parents and service providers. It iswritten to help parents find their way, gather their support tribe, set goalsand manage their child’s team and program. All the tough topics arecovered, wonderful real life stories told and mountains of parent wisdomshared. It is easy to read, practical and energising.
Becoming Chief is written by Cathy Love, Occupational Therapist, Coach,Speaker and Author. She writes to her passion of helping parents feelstrong, informed and organised so that they can powerfully advocate fortheir child.
Her book has been reviewed by Source Kids Magazine, Amaze, USA’sAutism Parenting Magazine and other publications.
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Notice Board
It’s time to assertively manage andconfidently lead a great team thatwill be known for deliveringincredible services to children withspecial needs
The Five common mistakes that Paeds Biz owners make:
1. No formal plan and advisory team
2. Struggle to recruit, retain and release staff
3. No policies and procedures documented or used
4. Lack of unique products and services
5. Haphazard marketing and partnerships
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