Private Practice Success Newsletter
May 2007, by Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC (Master Certified Coach)
www.privatepracticesuccess.com
Taking Steps Toward Leadership
For the past several months in this newsletter, I have been trying to heighten your awareness about the need to take leadership of your practice, to stay ahead of the market downturn. Leadership means different things at different times, but within a sole proprietorship, leadership means taking steps to enhance these three areas: profitability, autonomy, and fulfillment. Here are some shifts that the business owners I coach encounter as they develop their leadership capacity. These shifts are from curriculum written by CoachU and published in the CoachU handbook by Wiley. (CoachU is a large coach training organization where I am currently on faculty.) See if you have made, or need to make any of the following shifts, in one or more of these three areas to help you take the next steps of leadership in your practice. Profit:
"Profit [for a business] is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life." Jim Collins
Taking leadership for profitability means making these shifts: From.................................To
Getting by financially..........High profitability
Ups and downs..................Consistency
Filling the practice..............Having a full, sustained practice
Going in circles..................Growing along a path
Putting wants first...............Putting integrity first, needs second, wants third
Barely having enough..........Maintaining a reserve Autonomy:
"Take each new opportunity as it arises. A large area of thought goes to self-determination and self-will." Michael Nesmith
Taking leadership for autonomy means making these shifts: From.................................To
Being competent................Being a master in field
Reacting............................Calming down, responding
Clueless.............................Focused and plans
Coulds, woulds, shoulds......Creates what's possible
Hoping...............................Abandons hope, initiates desires
Caretakes others.................Treats others like adults Fulfillment:
"Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment." Robert Collier
Taking leadership for fulfillment means making these shifts: From.................................To
Weak personal life..............Satisfying balance
Getting ego from job...........Getting sense of self from service
Hard on self........................Laughs about self, enjoys humanness.
Present not good enough.....Grateful, accepting of what is
Confused and stuck............Willing to take a risk
Adrenaline, highs, lows.......Grounded In future newsletters, I will explore how you can specifically make these types of shifts. For now, think about these distinctions, and see what you can change in your daily actions, monthly goals, and year-long vision to help you achieve leadership in this regard.
Upcoming Teleclasses
Next Strong Start Teleclass begins May 8, 2007!
Back by popular demand, we are offering another Strong Start Teleclass to begin in a few weeks, on May 8, 2007 at 3:00 PM EST. We still have one or two spaces left. Here are some comments from the Strong Start Teleclass participants of the class that is just ending: "I got very clear from this 4-month process that I need to head in a very different direction. I don't think I would have realized this on my own." "I filled my practice during our class from 8 clients to 25 clients." "I loved knowing I was not alone, and that my challenges were shared by others across the country. The concrete information and strategies, showed me exactly what to do next." The Strong Start is our motivational teleclass for therapists, coaches, and healing professionals at any stage of practice building. We meet by "bridgeline" — an easy to access conference line, that you dial just like a long-distance phone number at the given time, to be connected to everyone on the call. The Strong Start Teleclass Program is a twelve-hour, four-month-long progressive practice-building program that follows the first several months outlined in Lynn's best-selling workbook text: 12 Months to Your Ideal Private Practice: A Workbook to help therapists and healing professionals take the right steps to build their ideal private practices. It is led by Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC and cost is only 40 per hour ($475 for twelve 1-hour sessions.) To register and see the dates, policies and other information go to: website Lynn's Upcoming Presentations
June 1, 2007: Philadelphia, PA
"The Evolving Private Practice"
Hyatt at Penns Landing sponsored by the Marworth Treatment Center
Contact: David Reynolds: dwreynolds@geisinger.edu July 18, 2007: Ann Arbor, MI
"Marketing With Integrity"
Ann Arbor Consultation Services
Contact: Terry Dunivin: terrydunivin@aol.com July 19, 2007: Ann Arbor, MI
"Becoming a Coach"
Ann Arbor Consultation Services
Contact: Terry Dunivin: terrydunivin@aol.com September 2007: Australia!
Workshops in Sydney, Melbourne, & Brisbane
"Success in Private Practice: How to love what you do and be highly profitable too!"
For information and dates, go to: http://kassanevents.com.au/training1.html October 12, 2007: Toronto, ON
"Private Practice Success"
Leading Edge Seminars
Contact: info@leadingedgeseminars.org October 13, 2007: Toronto, ON
"Integrating Coaching Into Your Practice"
Leading Edge Seminars
Contact: info@leadingedgeseminars.org
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Books by Lynn Grodzki, published by WW Norton. To order, click on each book.
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The Business and Practice of Coaching
By Lynn Grodzki and Wendy Allen (2005)
Reviewed by author Richard Leider as "Nothing less than a radical rethinking of the essentials of building a coaching practice. A must read for all coaches, master and novice alike."
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Building Your Ideal Private Practice
By Lynn Grodzki (2000)
The best-selling guide to what you need to do and who you need to be in order to have a highly profitable, personally satisfying private practice. Often called the "private practice bible" this book has become a resource for tens of thousands of your colleagues.
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The New Private Practice:Therapist-Coaches Share Stories, Strategies and Advice
Edited by Lynn Grodzki (2002)
A groundbreaking look at the profession of coaching through the eyes of 16 successful therapist-coaches who tell you how to become a coach, what to charge, and show you how they coach their clients.
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12 Months to Your Ideal Private Practice: A Workbook
By Lynn Grodzki (2003)
This planned, motivational workbook will help you build the practice you desire. The workbook incorporates fresh ideas, new exercises, further skill sets and much more to give you a direct experience of being carefully coached by Lynn, month-by-month, for a full year.
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See the website for additional articles, information about individual coaching, and upcoming classes.
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