Putting Performance Into Practice - Introduction

For the past several months I’ve shared a detailed look at “Game Changers”. I’ve written about several national and global trends that are and will be impacting health related practices including physical therapy and personal training. I’ve shared what I see in my “crystal ball” as to what those trends suggest for us; and I’ve written about what actions leading practices are taking in response and preparation. The key messages have been:

1. The health environment is changing rapidly – more need, competition, and risk with less reimbursement and flexibility.
2. There will be winners and losers from a provider perspective – with change comes threat and opportunity.
3. Today’s strategic and operational decisions will determine who wins and who loses tomorrow – most practices are not designed to thrive in a changing environment.
4. Leading practices are reinventing themselves to be lean and prosperous.

With these understandings in mind, I’ll begin a new series of articles that will focus on the philosophical framework of the successful management of a growing practice or professional career.

When performance matters, things are not left to chance. This is true for winning athletes, high achieving professionals and successful organizations. Integrity, congruency, and consistency become critically important – it is what enables long term purpose to be efficiently transformed into effective day-to-day decisions and actions in an increasingly challenging environment.

We will shift our focus in the upcoming posts from responding to changes in the external environment to managing change in the internal environment that we shape. While we cannot control what happens to us, we can control how we chose to respond to what happens to us.

Our potential choices and control are largely influenced by how we approach the task of leadership and management. We will explore a comprehensive management framework for replicating a sustainable high performance organization. The model has implications for owners, managers, professionals, coaches and teams that performance in business, sport, and in life...

All The Best!

Bob

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