All relationships begin with an agreement. Your relationship with your practice member is no different. The agreements that you and your team make when a practice member first enters your doors significantly sets the stage for their journey with you. A journey that may span many weeks, years or even a lifetime. In my experience agreements can be tricky. What happens with most chiropractors is that many of the agreements are assumed. Often the chiropractor assumes that the person wants…
You have ideas, services and products that you know can really help people and I bet that you are frustrated by the fact that all too often people just don’t seem to get it. Is it that people don’t seem to be willing to even entertain that what you have is something that could help them? Are they so stuck in their beliefs that they can’t stretch themselves to risk thinking that they are able to receive and attain something…
During our undergraduate years most of our time and energy is spent learning the ‘hard’ sciences of anatomy, neurology, biochemistry and spinal biomechanics. We eagerly focus on the skills and techniques that address the malfunctions that have produced the people’s maladies. Over my career as a chiropractor, principle to many associates and coach to a large numbers of chiropractors, I have noticed a pattern. New graduates have a major focus on the ‘problem’ that the person has, whether an allopathic…
Expectations that others do or be what you expect of them is a sure-fire way to frustration, low performance and shattered relationships in your practice, your team and community. Hardly a day goes by when Quest Coaching doesn’t field a call from a stressed out chiropractor or associate regarding the sorry state that their relationship is in. (It is usually at a crisis point). At the root of these in almost every case is failed expectations. It can be principals,…
