21: Goals Are Good But Systems Are Better

As you start, grow or scale your speech therapy private practice, you must have systems in place. Systems are a set of rules or procedures that others can learn to accomplish a larger outcome. As an owner, these systems will allow others to help and assist so that the owner can accomplish tasks. In this podcast, I will identify some of the most important systems that every speech therapy private practice should have.

In this episode:

01:12 – Over 8600 listeners on the Podcast

02:04 – Private Practice Seminar in Hawaii

02:57 – Family Time is Good Time

03:12 – The Perfect Student – One Space Available

04:21 – Systems are Important to Your Business

05:38 – A Busy Clinic Needs Systems

06:54 – Goals Are Great But systems Are Better

That is something I wanted to stress with you guys, if you’re just starting out you want to make sure that your systems that you’re creating in your own private practice can be duplicated. That way you’re not running around just nonstop fifty, sixty, seventy hours a week. You’ve got to have help and so you want to make sure when you start you want to have the end in mind. So you want to make sure that everything that you do, you want to document it, write it down so it can be reproduced.

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Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 21. My name is Kyle Meades and I’m a speech pathologist since 1993 and these podcasts are designed to help you improve your business and your life one podcast at a time.

Welcome back to the show everyone, thanks again for all the emails, comments, tweets and mentions. I really appreciated it. As of today, today is December the 14th twenty sixteen. We have over eight thousand six hundred listeners to the show. And it’s really a blessing to have you guys listening, I really appreciate it, because when we started we had two. I still have a screenshot on my MacBook when I uploaded the podcast for the first time months ago. And it’s just so nice to have all you guys sending me questions, feedback. And it’s really a blessing, I am truly grateful to have you guys onboard and I appreciate it.

Beautiful Patagonia Lake State Park

I wanted to say thank you for listening to the podcast. I did an extra few episodes in late October so you guys could get through the month of November. November was very busy for me. I went for a week to Hawaii with my other half, Stephanie and also my office manager, Esther and her husband, Carlos, we went to a Private practice seminar in Hawaii. So I was gone for a week there and then soon after that I went on a camping trip with my son. We went down south of Tucson to an area called Nogales / Rio Rico area. There’s a beautiful lake called Lake Patagonia right there and I took my son. There was a boat only campsite so you had to get a boat, get in there, load the boat and bring everything across the lake and unload it and put up the tent and sleeping bags and food and fun and we were playing hide and go seek with another couple up there, it was just really fun. We, and the kids, we fished and didn’t catch a thing, but it’s all about the: “Uh, dad I got a bite right?” That’s a bite son, put another worm on there, let’s do it again. We did a lot of fishing and hiking and camping. It’s just been a great month of November. It was Thanksgiving but I wanted to make sure you guys had plenty of content to listen to so I threw out three more episodes at the end of October.