Entries by Troy Parsons

Business Intelligence Scoreboard

Having the support of a great Accountant in your business can be a huge weight off any business owners shoulders but leaning on them too much, could cause even greater stress. Boosting your knowledge on the important numbers – the key metrics in your business, will help keep you in control and hopefully, profitable. It’s […]

Culture vs Strategy – What’s The Relationship?

You have heard us talk about it before, but without a good, strong culture the smallest of errors within your business are magnified. A strong culture allows us to stabilise and elevate – and not deviate from our strategy goals. We’re all guilty of it in business and Podiatry business owners are no different – […]

Cultural Planning For Your Business

I used to think team culture – particularly in business, just happened. That if you had a good group of people, good culture would follow naturally. After 20+ years in business I now know this isn’t true, and I am surprised how many businesses do not develop a cultural plan alongside their strategic and marketing plans. […]

Management Decisions Activities Results

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. –Ralph Waldo Emerson. Now, this may be the case, but you really want the universe to know what actions you need taken first. The decisions you make in your practice define the activities that are undertaken, which then drive the results – good, […]

Team Analysis Matrix – Get It, Want It, Capacity To Do It

Research is consistently suggesting people must see and understand the bigger picture to appreciate and find meaning in their work  So how can you assess if your team are engaged with your bigger picture vision AND how do you assess whether your team are a fit for your practice … AND what you need to […]

Shared Leadership – Involving Your Team In The Decision Making Process

Business isn’t necessarily complicated, but as business owners we often complicate it with our leadership style. Shared Leadership is described as a leadership style that broadly distributes leadership responsibility, such that people within a team and organisation lead each other. In a Podiatry practice that can look similar to the Leadership Team Troy Parsons put […]

Your Business Frame – Content vs Context

CONTENT vs CONTEXT …  We all do lots of ‘stuff’ in the day to day running of our healthcare practices. At The Hive, we call this CONTENT. We treat patients, we get administration tasks done, we keep accounts, we manage our employees and we market our services. However, it’s essential to be able to keep […]