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Spyglass Spotlight: Building Your Dream Team

Spyglass Spotlight #1 - Building your dream team

Welcome to the first of twelve issues as part of Spyglass Spotlight 2023, where we dive deep into personnel and the various facets therein that separate successful practices from those that spend their time putting out fires.

Spyglass Spotlight #2 - Approaching recruitment with a championship mindset

In part 1 we laid out expectations around communication in both directions and building training programs to establish trust among your teams. Here, we discuss how to add to your team like only the best talent scouts can.

Spyglass Spotlight #3 | The Interview: techniques, top tips, and thought process

Welcome to part 3 of our 12 part series on how to build your ideal team.

Spyglass Spotlight #4 | Creating an effective and repeatable onboarding process

Issue 1 of Spyglass Spotlight on Staffing set the stage for Building Your Dream Team; issue 2 discussed how to approach recruiting with a championship mindset; issue 3 dove deep into the interview process itself. In this article, our goal is to explore the onboarding process for any new associate you bring onto your team.

Spyglass Spotlight #5 | Training Plan and Retention

Training a new employee and developing a comprehensive training plan go hand-in-hand. Developing new skills or new practices come with time and ensuring that resources are readily available to staff.

Spyglass Spotlight #6 | Using the 30-60-90 method to ensure new hire success

Let's talk through how you fully leverage the first 90 days of your new hire's employment as an opportunity and open the door to future success for your practice.

Spyglass Spotlight #7 | How retention, motivation, and business agility lead to a winning team

Throughout Spyglass Spotlight, we’ve been using sports metaphors to help illustrate team building and development. Let’s take that a step further and think of individual members of your eyecare team as (hopefully) elite athletes.

Hiring an associate OD - why, when, and how

Many eye care practices reach a point where the schedule is so packed that coming up for air to work on the business is impossible because all your energy is spent working in the practice. This has become something of a trope in eye care conversations everywhere, but how do you address that problem?

Reframing your dispensary, a guide to optical merchandising

Frame board management can be difficult, time consuming, frustrating and even counterproductive. But it doesn't have to be, read on to learn how to make your life easier and your practice more profitable.

Reframing your dispensary Part 4 | Anchoring, variety and matching product to need

By educating thoroughly, honestly, and confidently you establish yourself as an expert who is concerned with the quality of the eyewear with which your patients leave.

Reframing your dispensary Part 3 | learning from retail and merchandising to your audience

Opticians Create Value. Pause. One more time: Opticians. Create. Value.

Reframing your dispensary part 2 | Learning from retail and merchandising to your audience

How you present your products, how your patients and customers see what your office carries has a tremendous amount of influence on whether or not your patients become your customers.

How much does Anagram cost?

Looking to find out more about our prices and products? Read on as we layout what our products are, how they work, and how they benefit your practice.

Seven success strategies for your eye care practice

Growing into and maintaining a successful optometric practice is much more complex than simply finding and taking care of patients.

Expand your specialties by meeting patients where they are

For many optometric practice owners, designing a marketing strategy is the most daunting part. While ODs have every intention of expanding their patient reach, it's challenging to know where and how and when to begin.

How OD driven optical pricing boosted revenue by 30%

It has become more apparent by the day that private eye care practitioners can no longer rely on “if you build it, they will come” as a growth strategy. Even less reliable is the adage, “if they come, they will purchase”.

Top 9 Tips for getting stuff done even when you don’t feel like it

Feeling unmotivated? Overwhelmed by that never-ending list of stuff to do and no time in which to do it?

Connecting contact lens evaluation fees and your standard of care

Whether you’re in a sublease or independent private practice, the thinking that goes behind your professional fees should be taken seriously and re-evaluated from time to time.

Eye care providers: take these action steps to reduce COGS, boost profits, and win!

These simple strategies are purpose built to improve the financial outcomes for your independent eye care practice