26: SOPs and the Noah Principal

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and the NOAH Principal are very important to remember as you start and grow your speech therapy private practice. In this episode, I discuss keeping notes and logging every aspect of your business on paper. You will quickly find that when you are just starting out, you are actually developing SOPs for your business. These SOPs then need to be refined over time and then cross-trained to others in your business (the NOAH Principal). NOAH is important for your business to run smoothly, because if an employee is out for any reason, then your business will run efficiently and smoothly.

In this episode:

02:11 – + 13,766 listeners

03:06 – Clinic Expansion: Additional Disciplines

03:53 – Last Month’s Webinar

05:52 – Noah Principle and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

06:41 – Tracking Your Moves to Develop SOPs

08:22 – NOAH Principal: Train in Pairs

Another principle I wanted to talk to you about today is the Noah Principle. And when you think about Noah, you think about Noah’s Arc, and when Noah was loading all those animals on to the arc in pairs, two animals. So, you want to make sure that two people in your office are trained on every single procedure. That way, if somebody is out on vacation, or unfortunately, if someone is sick, the other person can take over that task. It’s very important.

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Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 26. 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 and questions. I really appreciate you guys being out there and as always I hope you’re getting valuable information from these podcasts. I going to say it value is what you get in the absence of money. And these podcasts are 100% absolutely free for you all. If you wouldn’t mind just please simply go to the iTunes platform of podcast, and leave some good 5 star feedback for the show. I really appreciate in the last month a couple people have left some good 5 star feedback. And that way other speech pathologist like yourself can find this information more easily and it’s readily available for everyone out there. So I just want everybody who is looking for this information I want them to be able to find it pretty quickly.

Also, today is May the 1st, 2017. As of today, we have over 13,766 listeners to this show, and man, that is so neat! I remember, we had two listeners, and it’s just really growing. Keep the questions coming in! And if you need to ask me a question, go to www.privateslp.com/contact it’s on the webpage there. Also too, I have one space available for the Perfect student. That’s when you can fly in to Tucson and work with me one-on-one, and I’ll show you all the details and innermost workings of a Speech therapy private practice, where you can start your own private clinic, or if you’re interested in a home health agency, I can show you that, too. We have two businesses here in Tucson, and combined we see well over, I would say it’s about close to 1700 people every month; we see, we provide speech and occupational therapy.

We’re actually moving into a new office.