Group Practice Network Blog
Practical Tools and Tips for Growing Your Business
People Pleaser or Leader? How Group Practice Owners Can Tell the Difference
When we people please, we often avoid being clear because we don't want to upset anyone. But a team that never knows where they stand, or that sees their owner say yes one week and pull back the next, ends up feeling less safe, not more.
Contractor or Employee? Start With What You Want for Your Group Practice
Do you want contractors or employees? There's not just one right answer here. There are so many individual ways to run a group practice, and each of these structures can work well. The trouble starts when what you want and the structure you've chosen don't match.
What Running a Group Practice Actually Takes Now (And Why It's Not What It Took Ten Years Ago)
What worked when I started my first group practice isn't what works now. Not because either of us did it wrong back then. The ground underneath all of us has shifted, and a lot of the advice still floating around out there was written for a landscape that doesn't exist anymore.
Four Group Practice Owners, Four Different Answers to "Should I Grow?"
This summer, I sat down with four group practice owners across the country on the Empowered to Lead podcast and asked each of them the same question: how did you decide whether to grow or stay where you are. Not one of them answered with a number. Not one said "once your team’s caseload hits this," or "once you can afford that." What they gave me instead was harder to put in a framework, and more useful because of it.
Why You Should Stop Calling Your Business “Your Baby”
Your business? It should work the opposite way. Your business exists to serve you—your goals, your vision, and your life. Treating it like a baby flips the relationship: suddenly, you’re in service to the business, reacting to daily crises instead of guiding its growth with purpose.