Learning Labs are practice management, peer-driven groups. These are meant to be discussion-based and are not for continuing education credit. Learning labs are 50 minutes long and run throughout the meeting. Pre-Registration is required.
Adding Clinical Research to Your Practice
Description: Clinical research is exciting and rewarding both professionally and financially. Learn more about conducting clinical research and how to fit it into your practice.
Focus on Contact Lens Best Practices
Description: Learn how Vision Source's Focus on Contact Lens can add profitability and proficiency to the practice, its almost like having an extra staff member in the practice!
MAX: Maximizing Optical Profitability
Description: Sometimes the biggest challenges are having third party collections be 100% accurate. Finding those missing co-pays and overages can be a huge profit piece to the practice. MAX continues to be the quick and easy piece to staff being extremely efficient, especially new optical staff.
Frame Dream Best Practices
Description: Learn best practices to drive sales and profit in your practice with the Frame Dream program.
Preparing to Sell - Practice Transition 101
Description: Thinking of selling your practice within the next 5 years? Learn what to do to maximize buyer interest and increase the value of your practice.
Ortho-K Best Practices
Description: Ortho-K is part of managing myopia for many practices. Learn some of the best practices for Ortho-K that you can implement in your practice.
Myopoia Management - Using Atropine
Description: Best practices when using Atropine to manage myopia.
Myopia Management - Soft MF Contact Lenses
Description: Best practices when using Dual Focus (ie MiSight) or multifocal soft contact lenses to manage myopia.
Myopia Management - Starting your Myopia Clinic
Description: Where do you start in adding myopia management to your practice? Join us as we discuss how to start a myopia clinic in your practice.
Myopia Management Protocol Case Studies - 1hr CE
Description: An update of current literature on myopia control allows for a practical understanding of treatment approaches. Information provided in this course will be a clinically practical guide that focuses on content of evidence based ocular care.
Creating your Dry Eye Protocol
Description: Curate a custom dry eye approach that works for your practice and allows you to add services and technology at your own pace.
Marketing your Dry Eye Practice
Description: The untapped patient population in need of dry eye management is great. Marketing dry eye management for your practice is a necessary piece to practice management to connect with that patient popullation in need of care for dry eyes.
Adding Non-covered Dry Eye Services
Description: Sharing practice pearls for success in implementing non-covered dry eye services such as iLux, TearCare, IPL, etc - Where and how do you start?
Creating a Dry Eye Boutique
Description: Have you ever thought of adding a boutique to your practice? Maybe for frames but how about a dry eye boutique. Many patients look for those specialty clinics that offer specialized treatment like no other practices. Learn how you can start not only dry eye management in your practice but taking that care to the next level with a boutique.
AMD - Starting your AMD Clinic
Description: Managing AMD is a growing need and your AMD Clinic within your pracitce can be a large profit center as well.
Frame Profitability with Managed Vision Care
Description: What is your frame profitability and mix strategy? Join us as we dive into all-things frames and MVC to make sure you are maximizing this important area in your practice.
Lens Profitability with Managed Vision Care
Description: What is your lens profitability strategy? Join us as we dive into all-things lenses and MVC to make sure you are maximizing this important area in your practice.
Managed Vision Care Update
Description: Are you MAXimizing Managed Vision Care in your practice or just getting by day to day? Join us as we discuss news + happenings in the MVC world along with some great pratice tips and insight from one of our top Admins!
EyeMed Updates + SightProtect
Description: Join the EyeMed team as they lead discussions on what is new and coming with EyeMed. This is your opportunity to ask questions and learn more about what EyeMed can offer your Vision Source practice! Also joining the conversation will be representatives from SightProtect, Essilor's new safety eyewear program!
Frame Portfolio - Optimizing Frame Brand Offerings
Description: The brands you choose to offer in your optical create an engagign experience for patient. Learn why building a strong frame portfolio will increase patient engagement and drive sales.
Optical Merchandising that Drive Sales
Description: Merchandising in the optical can truly drive increased sales. Have you wondered how to sell higher end frames, or maybe increasing the second pair sales. Join us to talk about how proper merchandising can drive greater sales for your practice.
Brand Managers: Improving Patient Experience and Drive Sales
Description: Brand management of your optical helps to add value to the time your Optician(s) spends working with each patient, no patient encounter is the same and creating a memorable experience for each patient is what sets you apart. Patients will keep coming back due to their experience.
Hosting A Profitable Frame Event
Description: Frame events create excitement to buy. Hosting a succussful event takes planning but the planning pays great dividents in sales. Join us to discuss how to host a profitable event.
KPI Metrics: Professional Services
Description: Understanding your Key Performance Indicators is important to understanding your business and makeing data driven decisions. This session addresses KPI's for Professional Services.
KPI Metrics: Optical
Description: Understanding your Key Performance Indicators is important to understanding your business and makeing data driven decisions. This session addresses the KPI's related to the optical.
KPI Metrics: Contact Lens
Description: Understanding your Key Performance Indicators is important to understanding your business and makeing data driven decisions. This session addresses the KPI's related to contact lenses.
Improve Retinal Screening Capture Rate
Description: Retinal screening increase efficiency, patient experience and profits. Discuss key strategies to improve your retinal screening capture rate
Make your Team Conversations Count
Description: Want to maximize the performance and motivation of your staff? In this interactive discussion, learn techniques to increase your influence and impact in conversations with your staff, colleagues and patients through the research-based Five Coaching Conversations model. Facilitated by Morgan Massie, author of the best-selling book The Five Coaching Conversations.
Implementing Change Successfully
Description: Change is a constant in practice. Learn best practices to make those changes easier and more successful to implement
Incorporating New Presbyopia Treatments in your practice
Description: Are you meeting the expectations of your presbyopic patients? Learn how new treatments help meet presbyopic demands and build patient trust
Staff Hiring for Success
Description: Join us to discuss how to hire staff that will be more efficient, deliver a greater patient experience and look at their employment with you as a career and not just a job. This will drive staff retention.
Staff Orientation and Onboarding Best Practices
Description: The first days of a new staff persons career at your practice are some of the most important days. Making certain you have a successful orientation and onboarding process is critical to staff retention. Join us to discuss staff orientation and onboarding techniques.
Staff: Developing and Retaining Top Talent
Description: Developing staff is a missing link as our practices are so busy taking care of patients. However you must find time to develop both new staff as well as more tenured staff. Join us to discuss how this will not only deliver greater patient care, but create a culture of the top employees staying in your practice.
Profitable CL Strategies
Description: Do you have a streamlined contact lens strategy to maximize efficiency and profit?
Staff: Upgrading Pts to Newer Contact Lens Technology
Description: How are you communicating the benefits of new contact lens technology to your patients, improving their vision and comfort.
Staff: CL Ordering Efficiencies and Improving Capture Rate
Description: Having a good CL strategy in your practice is vitaly important. Join us in a discussion on successful contact lens strategy. This will include capture rate, daily disposable fitting, and vendor strategies.
Staff: Varilux & Transitions - Why Brands Matter
Description: Brands drive patient's perception of the value and quality of care they receive in your practice. We discuss why brands matter and how you can leverage them to meet patient expectations.
Online Scheduling - Connecting with Patinets On Their Terms
Description: How easily are patinets able to scheudle appointments with you? If you don't have online scueduling, you may be missing opportunities!
Online Frame Shopping - Build Excitement Before the Exam
Description: Everyone wants their purchases to be "seem-less" like amazon! How do you use technology to allow a patient to "PreView" frames? Join us to discuss the options for a 'seem-less" patient experience.
Staff: Practice Marketing - Using Vision Source Resources to Market Your Practice
Description: Marketing is key to creating and maintaining connections with patients. Learn about the practice marketing tools, technology, and resources that are available to help you elevate your brand and connect with patients.
Staff: Eyewear: Troubleshooting and resolving common patient complaints
Description: Join us to discuss how to troubleshoot a prescription and turn a patient into one of your strongest advocates. Lower your redo rate and turn them into patients for life!
Team Ideas for A Great Workplace
Description: Join us to learn ideas to build a great culture with some fun in the office while learning how to organize your team to work together to meet the needs of their customers. Team building increases motivation, boosts cooperation and increases morale to drive VS programs and practice protocols.
Answer your team's #1 Question: why does this all matter?
Description: Every team members is secretly asking “Why does this all matter?” If your team knows their “why”, they can overcome any “how”. Learn tangible ways to transform some of the most mundane tasks into tasks having meaning.