When hiring for different roles in your optical practice you're going to be looking for different qualities, skills, and experiences for each position. What you're looking for in an optician is going to be different from what you're looking for in an office manager, naturally.

That's why we thought it would be helpful to lay out for you the skills and characteristics that we think make someone a good candidate for each of these different roles. Is there a skill or quality that you look for that we missed? Let us know in the comments.

In most independent eyecare practices, your staff members are required to wear many hats. Someone in your practice, likely the OD or office manager, wears the hat of human resources manager.

The HR Manager is in charge of hiring, interviewing, monitoring time off, and overall staff productivity management, but it's likely whoever is in charge isn't necessarily an "expert" in the area. That's why we thought it would be great for someone in your practice to have access to a library of different online resources where they can go to get help and find answers to some of your eyecare practice's biggest HR needs.

We know how important it is to hire the right people in your optometric practice. This becomes even more important when you're looking to hire on another OD in your office.

While every role on your team is valuable and important, bringing on a new OD requires more specific questions in order to find the right cultural and technical fit for your office.

We've spent some time on the blog in the past talking about interview questions to ask when hiring for different positions in your practice, and today we want to share some of the important questions to ask when bringing a new OD into the picture. 

What are some of the reasons an eyecare practice would purchase new practice management and EHR software? It could be that they have decided to modernize their paper practice, a desire to be more mobile, or to streamline their daily processes.

Ultimately the hope is that new software will help make your practice more efficient, allowing you to save time, see more patients each day, and increase your revenue. Today, we want to share with you 10 ways that the best software systems in the market will help save your eyecare practice time. Saving a couple of minutes on each patient can add up to a lot of time saved in the long run!

It's getting more and more important in your small business to monitor the performance of all aspects of your business so you can make better business decisions moving forward. You can't improve what you don't measure, and having the right systems and tools installed in your practice will make it easier for you to monitor the things most important to your bottom line.