Organization of the Practice

Organizing a Practice requires the know-how and understanding the elements of which a Practice is built. These elements include the aspects of overall Practice Management from an executive level viewpoint. The Practice Owner is primarily responsible for this and it is the Practice Owner who through good leadership accomplishes this. It is the Practice Owner […]

Tips for Hiring a Marketing Coordinator

In a series of articles presented last week on some of our Silkin Management Group blog sites we discussed the various responsibilities and job duties of a marketing coordinator in a specialty practice. Specialty practices require a different method of marketing than a general practice as they often rely primarily on referrals from general practices. […]

Some Ideas on a Job Description for a Practice Owner – Part 1

Although many clients of our clients have some form of job descriptions in their office, what they have is usually incomplete if not non-existent. And, even if they do have some job descriptions in place, we have never found a new Silkin Management Group client to have a job description for them as the practice […]

Interviewing And Selecting Employment Applicants

The personal interview represents the basic process to use for selecting the best available person for a job. Relying on the interview process for finding the right person demands that the interviewer possesses the necessary expertise for planning and conducting an effective interview. Great attention must be paid to the selection / interviewing process. By […]

Some Points on Analyzing Your Practice or Business – Part 2

In a recent Silkin Management Group blog, we began a series of articles designed to help practice owners, whether Silkin Management Group clients or not, evaluate their practice. These articles are based on key functions that belong in any office of any size, or really any business. Without these functions properly in place any business […]

How to Make More Time as a Practice Owner and Manager?

A common problem Silkin Management Group runs into with practice owners, particularly with those whose practices have grown, is that one day they’re running the practice and the next day the practice is running them. This creates a lot of stress for the executive for a number of reasons. I will address just a few of them: Practice […]

Handling Problems

In dealing with problems that can develop in a practice, there are six basic maxims: 1 What you don’t or can’t control loses income. To the degree you are in control of these seven key areas of your practice, you will have a lower-stress, higher-income practice. To the degree you are out of control of […]

The 6 basic rules….

In dealing with problems that can develop in a practice, there are six basic maxims: 1 What you don’t or can’t control loses income. To the degree you are in control of these seven key areas of your practice, you will have a lower-stress, higher-income practice. To the degree you are out of control of […]

Accounts Receivable Management

A few days ago, on one of our Silkin Management Group blog sites we presented an article about how to do a quick evaluation of one’s accounts receivable. If, when completing this analysis, you find that your receivables are not doing well and/or you have a large amount of A/R’s over 90 days, you might […]

Job Duties for an Exam and Consultation Department in an Orthodontic Practice

Several days ago we presented information on general job duties for a Personnel and Communications Department in a health care practice. Today we’ll continue our discussion of organizational structure examples by taking up another department in a health care practice that Silkin Management Consultants work with their clients on. We will use a specialty practice, […]