When I Started My Business, It Was Just ME...
Gerda Muller
PRIVATE PRACTICE SUCCESS Founder & Consultant: Helping you build a Self-Running Practice, giving your more time, money and meaning.
Fast forward another 12 months and I had grown to a team of 3.
The bigger the team got, the more challenging it became, until I finally realised I needed support in how to do this thing called running a business.
Cue my first Business Coach, the fabulous Nathan McDonald.
He become my go-to person for all things business development and management.
I swear my husband was his biggest fan, as having Nathan in my life meant that I was no longer calling my husband in tears or bursts of panic or frustration - I was now calling Nathan.
Poor Nathan, I'm wouldn't be surprised if I was his most emotional client ever!
Fast forward another 4 years of intensive coaching and mentoring from Nathan and my practices were running smoothly in my absence.
I was finally ready for the next step in my personal growth journey as a business owner.
Cue the start of Private Practice Success.
These days I have my very own 'board of directors' whom is there to offer me the support, input and even accountability as and when I need it.
Some people might call them my Management Team or my Leadership Team.
We call them our 'Ops Team' - for 'Operations'.
And this photo is from when I had the privilege of attending our Quarterly Planning Day with them, with the next two days set aside for IMPLEMENTATION.
The thing is....
No matter how BIG or how SMALL your practice is, you need support.
This support might look a bit different to each of us.
It could be:
- mentoring
- coaching
- accountability
- clarity
- re-alignment
- a sounding board
- strategics
- tactics
It doesn't matter....
....and it WILL change, as YOU grow and as your practice GROWS.
Please, please do yourself a favour and get yourself your very own person or 'board of directors'.
Trust me, you WILL thank me in another 6 months
XOXO
Gerda
P.S - Join me, on Friday the 11th of September @ 11:30am (QUEENSLAND TIME) as I am running a first ever training called The Management Team Trivector (via Zoom).
In this training, I will take you through HOW I SET UP my first Management Team and how it has evolved and flourished over the years into the amazing team it is right now.
A team that allows me to live more than 6 HOURS AWAY from my brick and mortar private practices.
A team that has allowed me to build COMMERCIAL Goodwill in my practice (instead of PERSONAL Goodwill) which has doubled the value of my business.
A team that only takes up ONE hour of my time a week!
Allowing me to focus in my genius zone.
As an inclusion of this training you will also get:
- Job Description for a Principal Psychologist
- Job Description for a Clinical Team Leader
- Job Description for an Accounts Officer
- Job Description for a Client Relationships Team Leader (i.e. Practice Manager)
- Template of the Monthly Report that I receive from my Principal Psychologist each month
Just the above documents alone will already MORE THAN cover your investment for this workshop.
As my web developer is currently completely overhauling my website, I don’t have a webpage for this, so if you have any questions about it which I have not answered above, just email [email protected].
However, if you are ready to build a sellable asset that can run without you, then book your place by signing up here: https://bit.ly/MTTrivector.
I can't wait to share this training with you!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
After starting her PhD on the topic of "Psychologists as Practice Owners: Current Challenges, Coping & Success Predictors", Gerda was appalled at the lack of support for Allied Health Professionals going into Private Practice and decided to do something about it. This was the start of Private Practice Success Australia.
E: [email protected] | W: gerdamuller.com.au