Welcome to the March Edition of Paeds Biz

Welcome to the March Edition of

Paeds BizHow to improve your

Paediatric Private Practice

An Introduction to Cathy LoveOccupational Therapist, Coach, Author and Speaker

For first time readers a quick intro, I am Cathy Love and I am the founding director of Nacre Consulting

and I work with parents and disability service providers to achieve brilliant outcomes for children with special needs. I

provide a range of services:

• Private practice coaching to business owners.

• Family Service Coaching for parents to help them manage their child’s team and services.

• Clinical supervision to individuals and allied health professional teams.

• Service delivery consultation to disability service providers.

More to be read about all that over on my website www.nacre.com.au.

Each month I write up news, useful information and pearls of wisdom for those working with children and families in

the disability sector. Given that it is a rapidly changing landscape and one that is increasingly privatised there is

typically lots of news to be shared.

Paeds Biz is a dedicated online easy to read FREE magazine for Australian allied health

professionals working with children and families.

This Months Topics Include:

• Productivity Hacks

• How HR compliant are you?

• Instagram - The easy way to use it for your business

• How to prevent your staff from leaving with your clients

• Why using an accounting system will make you more

profit

• Monthly Marketing Plans Made Achievable

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PRODUCTIVITY HACKS:WHAT YOU COULD BE DOING BETTER

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Despite working long and mostly productive hours, my to-do list

never shortens. I continue to read, reach out to others, and

implement new productivity tricks. Here is my current best

thinking on GSD, a.k.a. ‘Getting Stuff Done.’

• Default Diary. Management Monday has made a huge difference in my ability to work ON the business not IN it.

• ‘Time Blocking.’ I block out time in my diary to do specific tasks.

• ‘Colour Coding.’ No big surprise with the OT’ness of this.

• Productivity and time management apps.

• Accountability to others.

• Practice management software

• Notes. I dump ideas, conversations, to-dos, and so on, into an old

school notebook.

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HOW HR COMPLIANT ARE YOU?

We recently sent out a survey to a number of small businesses in a wide

range of industries, to ascertain how compliant they are around current

employment legislation.

The main issues centred on three key areas – hiring, performance and

culture. The main results were as follows:

1. A significant number of businesses do not review salaries annually.

2. 86% of respondents had fired someone, predominantly for non-

performance or fraud.

3. 60% did not have a Workplace Health and Safety Policy in place and

many were unaware of their legal obligations in this space.

4. 45% did not have a company policy on Sexual Harassment, Bullying

and EEO

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“The good news is that this is all easily fixed and does not

have to cost very much”

Guest Writer – Natasha Hawker

Read More: Useful tips when using Instagram

for Business

INSTAGRAM - THE EASY WAY TO USE IT FOR YOUR BUSINESS

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There is a whole world of scheduling tools for Instagram out there, just like there is for other social media platforms, including Hootsuite, Onlypult and Tailwind. We have stumbled across a particular program called Later.

• How does it work? Later is a simple scheduling and managing tool

for Instagram. It lets you plan your content, grow your audience,

and share your photos and videos.

• Why we recommend Later: - Ease of use There is a “Free Plan” which allows 30

free posts each Month, “Search and Repost” Media Library” - upload, store and

manage all of you photos and videos across any device.

Do you dream of being able to plan and schedule

your Instagram posts?

Guest Writer – Emma Samia

HOW TO PREVENT STAFF FROM LEAVING WITH YOUR CLIENTS

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There are some ways to minimise the risk of this happening, and I wish to spare all of our readers this pain.

• Having a strong and legally correct and drawn contract of

engagement. Yes there will be an upfront cost for this, but as your

business grows, this document will be well used. Please seek legal

advice.

• Protecting your Intellectual Property. Your contracts and “Policy

and Procedure Manual” should contain information about your

Intellectual Property and its use.

• Talk to your staff. Make it clear that you are fair and

reasonable, but that there is a line that can be crossed in terms of

respectful and professional behaviour.

• Assertively manage relationships personally with all your current

and new referrers. They need to know who you are, why you do

what you do, and that you are the backbone of the business.

“It’s important to think out your position on staff

leaving with clients”

WHY USING AN ACCOUNTING SYSTEM WILL MAKE YOU MORE PROFIT

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If you’re using spreadsheets, today’s the day to switch to an

online accounting system. Sure you’ll need to spend an hour

learning what you need to do, but you’ll save countless hours in

the future.

• Accounting systems are accurate.

• Accounting systems ensure that all your income and expenses

are recorded correctly.

• Accounting systems save time.

• Accounting systems provide up-to-date information.

• Accounting systems will make you more profit.

Guest Writer – Amanda Fisher www.amandafisher.com.au

It is important to know who your ideal client is. Who do you really want to

work with? .

It is hard to directly message your target market, so we need to find those

who already know them. We call this group of people your market and they

are the people your market to. When done well they will be active referrers to

your service and they will tell their colleagues.

We are in the business of building trusting relationships. Referrers will need

to get to know you, hear you, see you, read your material, meet with you and,

most importantly, hear positive stories from your clients.

The three P’s can help get your message out.

• People

• Pixel – get active on social media,

• Paper

”Allocate one hour on the first working day of the month to write your

marketing plan”.

MONTHLY MARKETING PLANS MADE ACHEIVABLE

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Who’s up for

marketing March ?

As a parent of a child with special needs there is

always a lot going on.

Parents may feel overwhelmed by child development experts, therapy, appointments and

complex systems. This leaves parents tired, overwhelmed and feeling guilty that they should

be able to do it all for their child.

Becoming Chief is book written for parents and service providers. It is written to help parents

find their way, gather their support tribe, set goals and manage their child’s team and

program. All the tough topics are covered, wonderful real life stories told and mountains of

parent wisdom shared. It is easy to read, practical and energising.

Becoming Chief is written by Cathy Love, Occupational Therapist, Coach, Speaker and

Author. She writes to her passion of helping parents feel strong, informed and organised so

that they can powerfully advocate for their child.

Her book has been reviewed by Source Kids Magazine, Amaze, USA’s Autism Parenting

Magazine and other publications.

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Available now from the Website E-book available to purchase here

Private Practice CoachingHow could a private practice coach help you? Need a hand with

policies and procedures? Where is your business plan up to?

Cathy Love is a specialist business coach who helps paediatric private practitioners run

powerful and profitable businesses. As a private practice pioneer in the 1990’s, Cathy

started, sustained and sold a successful Melbourne business. She understands the

lurking fear of failure, the stress of being an under-skilled manager and never having

enough time to do anything well. She gets the loneliness, the worry and the frustration of

being chronically over worked and under recognised.

Through her coaching programs, her clients gain skills and confidence to develop

business plans, policies and procedure manuals, manage and lead people, develop

innovate products, understand profit, market their services and install strong processes.

They get their management mojo kicked into gear.

Cathy passionately coaches and mentors her global clientele. The process is respectful,

practical and focused, discussions and solutions are specifically tailored to what you and

your business needs are, then and there. Her clients are left feeling energised and

significantly more confident in their ability to assertively manage their businesses. Her

knowledge of the business of allied health and the changing disability landscape is

unique and highly sought after.

Book a free 30 minute chat with Cathy today.

Cathy’s specialist private practice coaching sessions are

delivered via Skype, teleconferencing and face to face,

when logistics permit.

Book a FREE 30 minute chat with Cathy today

E: cathy@nacre.com.au | M: 0448 316 319

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