Performance

My medical practice donates to various organizations. Recently, I had an idea about how charitable giving could lead to a happier, more professional staff.

Strong leaders and high achievers in various organizations possess many common characteristics. Here's what they are, and what they mean for physicians.

The point of this exercise is to ensure both an optimal allocation of resources and meaningful progress during the year.

Many medical practices hold 90-day performance reviews with new staff. Here are five tips to help ensure these evaluations lead to positive outcomes.

A too long to-do list can set up medical practice managers and physicians for failure. Here's a healthier approach.

Let's face it, medicine is a business. If your new physician isn't productive, your practice will suffer. Here are some strategies to speed things up.

By monitoring a few simple areas in your practice, you are more likely to financially stay on target and be successful.

These three tools can help independent physicians build a community, improve patient care, and get involved in mobile health.

Many physicians and managers are asking more of their staff members than in the past. Here are three ways to help you through that process.

The balance between medical failures and successes can be challenging to navigate. Yet, for our own benefit and sanity, we must accept our humanity.

When things aren't working, resilient physicians manage to figure out how to get back on track. Here are three ways to build up your resiliency.

Whether you are hoping to solve a problem at your practice or simply trying to improve a process, the easy-to-follow OODA Loop method can help.

Here are four common difficult personality types you may have as employees at your medical practice and how to deal with them.

You may talk about growth at your medical practice, but are you walking the walk? Here are three ways to boost both personal and professional growth.

"Better-performing medical practices" excel in four performance categories, according to the MGMA. How does your practice stack up?

If your medical practice staff members aren't doing these eight things, it's time to make teamwork a bigger priority.

It can be difficult to tell when fatigue transitions into dangerous territory. Here are seven signs physicians should watch out for.

Frustration goes way down when expectations are explicit and achievable. Frustration with staff provides a good example of the theory.

One of the challenges with physician work-life balance is maintaining boundaries - specifically when guilt gets in the way.

The key to dealing with problem medical practice employees who question your decisions is moving quickly to fix the behavior. Here's what I recommend.

In this day and age, so much is competing for our time and attention. Here are a few ways to keep from getting bogged down at your medical practice.

We are trained to believe that tackling multiple items is efficient and productive, but that's a huge misconception.

Sleuthing out root problems in your practice operations may begin with simply asking "Why?"

Productive healthcare professionals who are able to pace themselves according to their cycle of productivity accomplish more in less time. Here are four tips.

Concentration is a time management tool that practice managers can use to boost productivity and performance.

How a five-physician internal medicine practice nixed its payer contracts and began charging patients directly for services.

Leasing your medical practice to a hospital? You may want to consider these 15 contract provisions to ensure your practice is protected for the future.

To help identify some of the best ways to boost medical practice revenue, we asked practice management expert Rosemarie Nelson to share some of her tips.

Get unique insight into the personal and professional lives of physicians through the results of the 2014 Great American Physician Survey, Sponsored by Kareo.

Whether you are a medical practice manager or physician, "servant leadership" is about letting your spotlight shine on those around you