The Remarkable CEO for Chiropractors

Is the opportunity you are exploring really the opportunity you want? Or are you having trouble finding that opportunity, to begin with?

Welcome back to part two of our four-part series as Dr. Stephen and Dr. Pete explore further into the Associate Relationships. This week is all about opportunity; how to find it, approach it, and vet it to make sure it is right for you and your potential employer. This episode will provide insight for both the Associate and the CEO alike.

Episode Highlights:

01:10 – A quick review of what was discussed in Part 1 around the five critical questions to ask yourself when looking at either hiring or becoming an Associate

03:37 – Dr. Stephen discusses how Chiro Matchmakers helps build these relationships so that they are successful and impactful.

07:38 - Chiropractic plays an important part in global health and filling this gap between finding the right Associate, focuses us back on to what it is really about. 

10:07 – Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen focus on the topic of how to find those opportunities, including resumes, job shadowing, and online spaces including social media.

14:20 – Now that you have found the opportunity, how do approach it?  Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen tackle self-awareness, confidence, and knowledge in how you present yourself. 

19:14 – The vetting process is the next step to determine if the practice is right for you as an Associate and vice versa. Dr. Stephen shares questions that you will want to ask and be prepared to answer. 

25:02 – Learn the three things that you should look for in a job opportunity. 

28:31 – Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen discuss the successes they have seen with practices that have found the right Associate-Doctor relationship.

Resources Mentioned

For more information about the Remarkable Associate Program

For more information about Coaching with The Remarkable Practice

For more information about Chiro Match Makers

Learn more about the Next Program

Schedule a Brainstorming call with Dr. Pete

Dr. Stephen’s LinkedIn

Dr. Peter’s LinkedIn

The Remarkable CEO Website

Dr. Stephen’s Book – The Remarkable Practice: The Definitive Guide to Build a Thriving Chiropractic Business

Research has shown that 67% of Associate Doctor relationships do not work out and there are about 160 employment opportunities open out there right now. 

This is the first of a four-part series, where Dr. Stephen and Dr. Pete want to bring you the foundation and the fundamentals to make the CEO and Associate relationship truly remarkable. Join them as they discuss the gaps that are currently in place, uncovering the vision you need in order to determine the practice model that is going to best work for you, and taking a look at your own behavior and beliefs, whether you are the CEO or an Associate so that you can find the right match for you.

Episode Highlights

01:51- Dr. Stephen discusses the gaps he found between the staffing issues of DCs being able to find CAs and associate Doctors. 

09:14 – Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen unpack the first question that you need to ask yourself, “What is next for you?”.  This is the key to discovering what is next in your career and what do you need to get there. 

11:42 – Dr. Stephen introduces the Next Program which is designed to help you figure out the next steps in your career.

12:33 – Dr. Stephen breaks down the options based on core values, vision, and behavior.

15:17 – Dr. Pete discusses the Venn Diagram component of hitting the bullseye on how those three things overlap to help set your goal

17:25 – Dr. Stephen shares the second question, “How do you decide?” and the importance in clarity to answer this. 

21:26 – Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen delve into the third question of “What is your vision story?’ and discuss the importance of discovering and aligning your core values to your vision.

27:26 – Dr. Stephen talks about marketing yourself either as an Associate or as a CEO. What are you bringing to the table both ways?

29:09 – Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen break down the fourth question of “What (Success). How (Model), Where (Region), Who (Mentor), and When (Timeline). 

32:29 – Dr. Stephen and Dr. Pete discuss the importance of the last question “Do you know yourself?”.  It is all about bringing all the above into alignment in order to be successful in the role and in your future.

Resources Mentioned

For more information about the Remarkable Associate Program

For more information about Coaching with The Remarkable Practice

For more information about Chiro Match Makers

Learn more about the Next Program

Schedule a Brainstorming call with Dr. Pete

Dr. Stephen’s LinkedIn

Dr. Peter’s LinkedIn

The Remarkable CEO Website

Dr. Stephen’s Book – The Remarkable Practice: The Definitive Guide to Build a Thriving Chiropractic Business

They are around when you need them and even when you don’t. They are globally fighting to ensure that the rights of Chiropractors are protected for you and your practice. 

Meet Bharon Hoag, the Director of the Chiropractic Defense Council. You may have heard Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen talk about the CDC on previous podcast episodes but for those of you that haven’t or you are still not sure who they are, then this episode is for you. Listen as Dr. Stephen and Dr. Hoag delve into what the CDC is, what is their mission, and what they are working on right now and in the future.

Episode Highlights

02:20 – Bharon shares how he got involved in the chiropractic world and starting OneChiropractic

07:00 – Bharon started to really build the idea that Dr. Franson had shared with him to create the CDC and two weeks from launch working on the mandate from California re: Covid restrictions

09:21 – Dr. Stephen explains where the idea of the CDC stemmed from and its ability to assist chiropractors globally. 

12:23 – Bharon discusses the mission of the CDC and some of the issues that they are currently dealing with in order to create expectations worldwide

16:07 – Dr. Stephen and Bharon discuss how the money raised is used, the fee to become part of this beneficial organization, and why it’s cost effective.

21:10 – A look at what the CDC is planning and preparing for in 2022

Resources Mentioned

Please visit the Chiropractic Defense Council for more information

Schedule a Brainstorming call with Dr. Pete

Dr. Stephen’s LinkedIn

Dr. Peter’s LinkedIn

The Remarkable CEO Website

Dr. Stephen’s Book – The Remarkable Practice: The Definitive Guide to Build a Thriving Chiropractic Business

About Our Guest:

Bharon is currently serving the profession as the Executive Director of OneChiropractic. 

OneChiropractic is a non-profit advocacy organization focused on attracting like-minded chiropractors to move in a unified effort to educate the world on the power of the chiropractic adjustment. He has been a leader in the business aspect of healthcare for almost two decades. He has worked in the chiropractic profession for eighteen years and taught for sixteen, developing his unique “non-doctor” approach through ownership and management of numerous clinics. He also served as the Executive Director of The Ohio State Chiropractic Association (OSCA) for six years. This experience enabled him to facilitate a new model of State Association management. Hoag’s new venture with the creation of OneChiropractic has ignited his passion and purpose. The mission of this organization is to harness the power of the chiropractic patient, drive for chiropractic parity in healthcare and to ensure the individual chiropractor has the tools to succeed. Achieving these goals will make Chiropractic the #1 healthcare choice in the world.

What is your definition of Wellness? We all think of it as part of the human lifestyle, a goal that involves active pursuit to achieve and maintain. 

In this episode, Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen want to challenge you to look at wellness not as a human lifestyle but from the human life cycle perspective. Wellness begins at conception, with the innate intelligence to adapt to its environment.  We are the experts and we have to go beyond just bringing people into chiropractic care but to help our patients return to that state of wellness and healing.

Episode Highlights

03:01 - Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen introduce the concept that wellness actually begins at conception and that wellness should begin with the end in mind. 
08:11 - Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen challenge us to look at the old paradigm of chiropractic care, challenge our current beliefs and move forward into the next era of chiropractic care 

10:05 - Dr. Stephen explores the definition of wellness and how it impacts both our initial intensive care and our maintenance care plans. 

15:18 - Dr. Pete discusses the conversations that we need to have with our patients in order to bring them into the total wellness plan and how chiropractic care fits into it. He also introduces the Wellness Club.

19:19 - Dr. Stephen shares his story of discovering and understanding the wellness paradigm

23:56 - Dr. Pete delves into chiropractic journey and his own awakening into long term wellness planning

28:17 - Dr. Stephen brings the conversation back full circle to discuss the lifecycle of wellness and bringing patients to understand that the initial adjustment is just the first step back into wellness. 

Resources Mentioned

Schedule a Brainstorming call with Dr. Pete

Dr. Stephen’s LinkedIn

Dr. Peter’s LinkedIn

The Remarkable CEO Website

Dr. Stephen’s Book – The Remarkable Practice: The Definitive Guide to Build a Thriving Chiropractic Business

How do we guide our tribes; our team, our patients, and our community, to navigate the way the world has become over these last couple of years?

We have all been faced with objections, concerns, and pushback, both inside and outside of our practices. As we face this heaviness and negativity of what is continuing to happen in the world, we have to educate them to say yes to the strategies that we employ and teach in order to enable them to be their healthiest selves.

Episode Highlights

03:20 - Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen open up the topic of dealing with the challenges and deficiencies we are dealing with within our practices during this pandemic.

05:00 - Dr. Stephen explores what we already understand about physiology and co-existing with viruses. 

07:45 - Dr. Stephen shares that in order to change the health trajectory of our patient is a two-part process.

10:35 - Dr. Pete discusses building good habits and tactical implementation. 

15:26 - Dr. Stephen delves into finding the similarities in philosophical beliefs and working to reshape their paradigm from outside to inside out. 

21:25 - Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen challenge you to determine how you are going to build these needed conversations for your teams and your patients. 

Resources Mentioned

Schedule a Brainstorming call with Dr. Pete

Dr. Stephen’s LinkedIn

Dr. Peter’s LinkedIn

The Remarkable CEO Website

Dr. Stephen’s Book – The Remarkable Practice: The Definitive Guide to Build a Thriving Chiropractic Business

A Remarkable Interview with Dr. Erik Kowalke and Dr. Stephen Franson. 

Listen in on a conversation between two of Chiropractic’s best business minds (Dr. Erik Kowalke and Dr. Stephen Franson) as they share insights, secrets, and lessons learned while building 6 multi-million-dollar businesses between them. 

This episode will save you time, money (and pain) building yours. 

Episode Highlights

02:40 - Dr. Erik shares his story of switching careers as an engineer to that of becoming a chiropractor and how SKED was formed to take his practice to the next level. 

07:37 - Dr. Erik and Dr. Stephen discuss the top three main problems that SKED provides, starting with convenience for your patients.

09:23 - Listen as they move the conversation on to solving the communication problem, especially through the evolution of communication as technologies change.

12:34 - Dr. Erik introduces the third main problem which is changing processes to increase conversion of new patients.

17:04 - Dr. Stephen and Dr. Erik discuss the impact that vision, and lack of, has had on their businesses. 

22:43 - Discover what it takes to become an effective and sustainable CEO leader. The Doctors share their lessons learned. 

30:08 - Dr. Erik and Dr. Stephen dive into how critically important systems are in supporting and in many ways, shaping your vision.

35:07 - Your team shapes your business and if you are not building the right team, you are not building your business. Listen as Dr. Stephen and Dr. Erik discuss building the success of your team. 

40:37 - Dr. Erik shares his experience of training his team and the effectiveness of bringing in somebody to do the training even when you know it. 

43:09 - The CEO’s job is to collect and direct energy to the team. Dr. Stephen and Dr. Erik discuss taking the “energy” temperature of the team and of the patients.

Resources Mentioned

For more information on SKED

Schedule a Brainstorming call with Dr. Pete

Dr. Stephen’s LinkedIn

Dr. Peter’s LinkedIn

The Remarkable CEO Website

Dr. Stephen’s Book – The Remarkable Practice: The Definitive Guide to Build a Thriving Chiropractic Business

Welcome to 2022, it’s time to elevate your expectations! In the spirit of creating a theme for the year, in this episode, we are excited to release the theme for 2022. While 2020 was the year of the Pivot and 2021 was the year for agility, 2022 is the year of Resilience. We want to recognize you for being resilient leaders and invite you to embrace the resilience that will be required in 2022. It’s important now that you appreciate what you have been through because you are stronger and more productive as a team and business and positioned perfectly to make 2022 your most remarkable year yet! 

 

Episode Highlights

0:53 – Dr. Stephen introduces the topic of setting the theme so that you can define the actions for the new year. 

5:25 – Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen discuss how that theme came to be and describe the definition and how it relates to what we are currently going through with the chiropractic field. 

11:06 – Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen recognize the resilience that has already been displayed by the leaders, CEOs, and teams and how the past couple of years has already made them seasoned professionals when it comes to resiliency. 

20:14 – Dr. Stephen shares how resiliency encompasses the leaders and even though covid has changed how we do business; it does not change the message we had before. 

22:04 – Dr. Pete discusses the importance of resilience in your practice for attraction and retention.

Resources Mentioned

Schedule a Brainstorming call with Dr. Pete

Dr. Stephen’s LinkedIn

Dr. Peter’s LinkedIn

The Remarkable CEO Website

Dr. Stephen’s Book – The Remarkable Practice: The Definitive Guide to Build a Thriving Chiropractic Business

Episode Highlights

08:16 – Dr. Stephen leads the conversation with the APPEAR Process and the importance of reviewing the past year in order to make progress in the next. 

09:21 – Dr. Stephen discusses his first big take-away from that past year which starts with agility.

12:14 – Dr. Pete shares his take-away of strength and the purpose of being tested. 

15:50 – Dr. Pete moves into unity, his second biggest take-away for the year, that we are all stronger together.

17:58 – Dr. Franson discusses how unity has been so impactful this past year especially with the work of the Chiropractic Defence Council.

22:32 – Dr. Pete moves into his third take-away which is wisdom and the difference between knowledge and understanding. 

28:03 – Dr. Stephen delves into determining where your focus has been for the past year and where you should be investing your mindshare for 2022. 

Chiropractic, Chiropractor, Health Care Business, Business Coach, Life Coach, Entrepreneur, Health Expert, Business Expert, Leadership, Living In Alignment, Business Building, Unity, Wisdom, Strength, Focus, MindsetResources Mentioned

Schedule a Brainstorming call with Dr. Pete

Dr. Stephen’s LinkedIn

Dr. Peter’s LinkedIn

The Remarkable CEO Website

Dr. Stephen’s Book – The Remarkable Practice: The Definitive Guide to Build a Thriving Chiropractic Business

What are the three to five big changes that you are committed to making so that you'll go and grow from now to the next?

In part one of this series, Dr. Stephen discussed the importance of assessing your last 12 months based on your vision and goals that you have set for your success.  Now that you have done that, it is time to take the next steps of planning and preparing for the new year coming up. 

 

Episode Highlights

04:49 - Revisit your vision. Is it clear in your mind and are you still able to communicate it to your team?How many of them came true?

06:52 - Translate your story into objective measurables for the upcoming year. Identify the milestones that you want to reach each quarter.

07:24 - Ensure you have your metrics set on how you are going to measure each goal.  If you didn’t meet last year’s goal, evaluate your loss and learn from it and establish what you need to do next year to attain it. 

10:41 - Utilize your accountability chart effectively and assign goals to those whose area of responsibility it will be to monitor and measure that goal.

13:23 - Create a three-year vision for your business and break that down into annual and quarterly milestones.

15:00 - Identify the gaps that are keeping you from moving forward; money, space, personnel.

18:08 - Wherever you see underperformance, use the accountability grid each year with the accountability chart to really audit your business and audit your team.

Resources Mentioned

Download the Vision Mapping PDF

Schedule a Brainstorming call with Dr. Pete

Dr. Stephen’s LinkedIn

Dr. Peter’s LinkedIn

The Remarkable CEO Website

Dr. Stephen’s Book – The Remarkable Practice: The Definitive Guide to Build a Thriving Chiropractic Business

2021 is coming to its close and what better time is there to take a look back and assess the last year and determine what you want to achieve in 2022.  

In this two-part series, Dr. Stephen takes us through the first valuable exercise that will help you get on your way to the successful practice you want as well as the freedom you deserve. From setting your vision, communicating to your team, and evaluating your goals, Dr. Stephen takes us through the tools we need to make sure 2022 is a year of success. 

Episode Highlights

05:13 - Learn the process of Vision Casting and how it provides you with a clear goal for the future.

06:12 - The power of visual inspiration in order to focus and provide clarity

07:31 - From drawing inspiration to creating a story that is shared amongst your team in order to build that vision

09:05 - Make your vision quantifiable.  You need to have Key Performance Indicators defined and measurable in order to monitor your progress and level of success.

11:04 - Reverse engineer your Big Hairy Audacious Goals (B-HAGs) in order to create smaller ones to evaluate on a quarterly basis.

13:34 - The seven primary roles and the 5 primary functions of the remarkable practice are used to create your accountability chart. 

16:42 - Building that bridge between last year’s evaluation to this year’s.

Resources Mentioned

Download the Vision Mapping PDF

Schedule a Brainstorming call with Dr. Pete

Dr. Stephen’s LinkedIn

Dr. Peter’s LinkedIn

The Remarkable CEO Website

Dr. Stephen’s Book – The Remarkable Practice: The Definitive Guide to Build a Thriving Chiropractic Business