Weaving An Organisational Structure Into Your Practice

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A 3-Step Guide

Growing your practice can be a huge undertaking, even more so if you’re doing it alone. There’s a lot to keep track of.

For a growing small practice, a formal structure can provide a framework which is important to sustain business growth whilst allowing your staff to maximise their contribution for continued success.

Read it, post it or tweak it to fit your need, we have designed this 3-step guide to help you create an organisational structure in your Podiatry practice.

  1. Let the task identify its owner. In other words, don’t stress yourself by doing all the tasks at once. In one of our previous webinars, ‘Let’s Talk About Systems’, we highlighted the importance of functionality in the business. Identify and list all the tasks in your practice. Then group all similar tasks together. This way it will become more evident which task group belongs to each of the 3 functional areas as shown below:

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  1. Assign each of your people to the three functional areas. For a small practice, you might see yourself handling at least two areas. As the practice grows, you will need to allocate your people specific roles so they can dedicate their attention to specific areas in your practice. When you are creating your organisational structure, use your functionality chart as a guide.

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To help you outline accountabilities and develop a structure in your practice, you can download the 3 Functional Areas chart from the Document Library in the website.

  1. Document and communicate the organisational structure to your people. Everything that is not on paper is just a whim. Let your people know their responsibilities and set clear expectations. This allows them to deliver what you expect of them in their work performance, without you constantly monitoring their progress.

The organisational structure is strengthened when we utilise our people and their contributions in shaping our business direction. This will maximise the chances of sustaining your business growth in the future.

Still not sure where and how to begin?

Just ask Really. So many times we’ve proven that even the strangest questions can shed light on a problem.

In business, there are no stupid questions. So if there’s anything you need to know further, log into the PodiatryHive Forum or email assist@hivepractice.com and send us your questions.

Until next time,

Greg Gunther