Do you know each of your team member's daily responsibilities?  Do each of your team members know what they are responsible for daily?  Does your team manage itself—not requiring you to make their daily decisions for them?  If your answers are all "yes"—great—if not, this pearl may help.

Whether you realize it or not, "automatic practice management" is what most practices desire.  It means that a practice can run itself, without the doctor having to make every decision throughout the day.  It is based on the principle that there are levels of decision making, starting from the doctor who makes major decisions, to the Team Coordinators who make decisions the doctor need not make, to the rest of the team who make decisions in their positions that the doctor nor the Team Coordinators need to make.

There are many doctors that are not willing to give up decision making, thinking that they will loose control of their practice.  But even those doctors can feel safe delegating decisions if they have the right Team Coordinators and set up their automatic management system.

On the other hand, there are doctors who don't want to make any management decisions and are willing to dump it into anybody else's lap.  This is not good either—there is a level of management (decision-making) that the doctor must accept—or lose control of his/her practice.

Attached is a PDF listing the minimal decision-making that the doctor must do to manage the practice, along with the decision-making responsibilities of the Team Coordinators and the decision-making responsibilities in all team member positions.

Also, the “Organization & Hiring Management Kit” can help you to create a self-managing by selecting the ideal team .