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If you've done your part in hiring or training a model employee who ended up leaving your practice after a few months, you're not alone. High turnover is a common concern among eyecare practices across the country. Even your top-performing employees can leave for a multitude of reasons including job satisfaction, salary, or lack of job growth. We understand that high retention and low staff turnover are necessary to maintain the efficiency of your eyecare practice.

As a business owner you're going to make mistakes. But the silver lining in making mistakes is that it ultimately helps your business grow and overcome hurdles. You don't want to experience the same mistakes over and over again, but learning from failures really can be a good thing. Today we are going to share 4 steps to take to help you and your team overcome and learn from mistakes in your office. Going through these steps will help you avoid the same mistakes in the future and come out on the right side of failure.

The staff you hire is a reflection of how you deliver care to your community. The wrong hire for any position in your optometric practice can create tension between your staff and your patients. When it comes time to hire an associate OD for your optometric practice, you want to ensure that you’re asking thoughtful questions that will ensure that the associate OD will get along with your staff and be committed to giving the patients in your community the best care possible.

Running your eyecare practice like the small business that it is can be challenging without having any business, management, or entrepreneurial training. While you yourself can't be an expert at everything, having a general understanding of fundamental business functions will help your business thrive. In this list of online certifications, we've got a little something for everyone whether you want to be more educated on accounting basics, human resource management, or social media marketing. Let's take a look.

Optimizing your patient schedule is a challenging undertaking. In addition to managing an optimized patient schedule, you also have to manage your employee’s time by creating an employee schedule to keep your optometric practice running efficiently. Unfortunately, the complexity of creating an employee schedule intensifies as you hire more employees and add more locations; making it difficult to manage schedules on a spreadsheet.