Posts By: Scott J. Manning, MBA

Stop Letting Ghosts Spook Your Practice

The patient in front of you deserves your best thinking, not the memory of what happened with someone else. Halloween gives us ghosts for entertainment but every practice has a few ghosts of its own. I’m not talking about anything wandering the halls after everyone goes home. I’m talking about the old experiences that keep… Read more »

What Patients Feel Before You Ever Say A Word

Today, we are shifting focus.  Instead of talking about what we do, we are getting into how we make people feel when they walk through that door. This is important because patients can feel us before we ever say a word. They feel whether we’re glad to be here. They feel whether we’re moving with… Read more »

Resourceful People Find A Way Forward

We have spent this month building toward something. We started on Labor Day talking about what you bring to your work. Then we talked about being both helpful and helpable. Last week we addressed the difference between being stuck and deciding you are helpless. Today, I want to bring all of that together with one… Read more »