Learning Labs
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 concurrently for three hours.
Remodeling, Building, OR Retro-Fitting Your Office?
Description: What are the thoughts and processes of an OD who has built two offices? What are the steps and challenges of remodeling or retrofitting an office into an existing building?
Speakers: Kurt Steele OD and Pete Kehoe OD
Times Available: TBD
The New Consumer Experience
"Staying Relevant in a Changing Eye Care Economy"
Description: Our patients consume eye care and eyewear. To remain competitive and successful, it is important to understand what the consumer wants and how to meet and exceed his/her expectations.
Speakers: Mick Kling OD
Times Available: TBD
Best Practices in Frame Board Management: The Vision Source Differential
Description: Learn how to maximize the value and profitability in the financial center of your practice using Vision Source-exclusive programs and pricing. Understand how to assess current brands and strategies to make changes within your optical dispensary to achieve higher profitability.
Speakers: Brad Byergo OD and Alex Martin OD
Times Available: TBD
The Best Thing I Ever Did for My Practice
Description: Join Vision Source trusted colleagues as they share decisions and actions that made a major impact on their practice success.
Speakers: Greg Aker OD and Rosie Flores OD
Times Available: TBD
Membership Rewards: Making the Most of Your Vision Source Membership
Description: Are you new to Vision Source or just need a membership refresher? Meet the team that will help you get the most out of a Vision Source membership. We will look at practice metrics to analyze your strengths and areas to improve.
Speakers: Tracy O'Brien, Tracey Peterson and Perry Lopez, OD
Times Available: TBD
Creating a Five-Star Patient Experience
Description: It's easier and less expensive to keep a good customer than to find a new one. How are you ensuring patients are satisfied and will return every year? Learn the best practices that lead to patient loyalty and tools, such as NPS, to help measure patient satisfaction. Your NPS will drive ratings with health plans and directly impact your reimbursement.
Speakers: Katherine Sanders-Smith, Missy Tada OD
Times Available: TBD
Revenue Raising Recipes: Serve Up More Profit with Vision Source Rebates
Description: Learn how to maximize rebates, profits, best practices, and strategies to make more money. This lab includes an in-depth look at the savings recipes and the tools available through Vision Source..
Speakers: Joan Coughlin and Steve Rice, OD
Times Available: TBD
The $50,000 Connection
Description: Learn the steps to connect with local physicians, adding up to $50,000 additional practice revenue annually.
Speakers: Daphne Reznik and Troy Bedinghaus, OD
Times Available: TBD
Value Based Care Update
"Beyond MIPS - Important Incentives and Penalties"
Description: The rules for compliance with value-based care, in programs such as MIPS—as well as the incentives and penalties—continue to evolve. This update will ensure your success in meeting the current performance requirements.
Speakers: Paul Williams, OD and Dorothy Hithcmoth, OD (SNE-PTN)
Times Available: TBD
Creating Your Highly Effective Team
Description: John Maxwell Team-certified optometrists will lead interactive sessions on building and leading a high performing team.
Speakers: Dori Carlson, OD
Times Available: TBD
Are Simple Mistakes Hurting Your Hiring?
Description: Only 18 percent of people listen to voicemails from numbers they do not know. If you have been only leaving voicemails for your candidates, it’s no wonder you have not been scheduling any interviews. This and several other common mistakes can be easily changed to turn your hiring concerns around. Identify simple mistakes and ideas on what to do in today’s tight candidate market to get the right person’s attention and make a great hire for your team.
Speaker: Bobbie Bailey, Alison Thompson, Scott Lewis, OD and Amir Khoshnevis, OD
Times Available: TBD
Practice Management Pearls: Make More Money, Improve Staff Engagement
Description: Leverage the experience of a noted practice management expert who will guide you to increased revenue and increased staff engagement and show you how to utilize the tools on Insight.
Speakers: Laurie Sorrenson, OD
Times Available: TBD
When and How to Recruit a New Associate with Vision Source Next
Description: When should you consider adding an associate? Expectations of the hiring and associate doctor can be miles apart. Learn from a former practice owner, now associate, who works with younger optometrists around the country. Bridge the gap of expectations for a long-term, successful associate doctor.
Speaker: Kristin O'Brien, OD
Times Available: TBD
Creating a Staff Development and Training Program to Grow Your Practice
Description: Learn how to implement a staff development and training program that will give your practice a competitive edge. Staff training is the foundation for greater practice efficiencies, increased patient care, and greater staff contentment. There are easy steps and resources that will help you build the trained staff you are want.
Speakers: Tami Franklin, CPOT
Times Available: TBD
Real-World Benefits of a Great Practice Culture
Description: Culture can sometimes be an over-used term, but few will argue that when a team understands and lives the culture of the practice, patients, employees, and practice owners all win. Learn and share best practices with our ‘culture team.’
Speaker: Pete Mogyordy, OD and Jim Beckwith, OD
Times Available: TBD
Buying Your Next Practice: Navigating the single largest investment you’ll make in your practice
Description: Our panel discusses the items to consider and pitfalls to avoid when starting, buying or selling a practice; leasing or renewing space; relocating or adding new locations.
Speaker: Greyhawk Advisors
Times Available: Saturday | May 4th 2019 | 8AM, 9AM, 10AM, 11AM
Maximizing Managed Vision Care in Your Practice
Description: Managed vision care is a large portion of most practices’ revenue and can significantly impact your average revenue per patient. Learn and share best practices on ways to deliver great care to your patients and more profits to your practice.
Speaker: Jessica Stoffel, CPO, MBA and Jeff Krohn, OD
Times Available: TBD
Billing and Coding for Specialty Services
Description: Specialty contact lenses and services allow you to maximize profitability by providing unique and needed care to your patients. Learn and share how to set your practice apart while maximizing your profitability.
Speaker: Chris Wolfe, OD
Times Available: TBD
Your Roadmap to Success: How to Attain Financial Independence by Increasing the Value of Your Office
Description: Learn how to create a strategic growth plan to maximize the value of your practice by increasing productivity and accountability from your team and developing an exit strategy that allows you to gain financial independence aligned with your personal and business goals.
Speaker: Ali Oromchian and Aaron Werner, OD
Times Available: TBD
Profitability with Essilor® Bundling and Understanding Lens Options
Description: Incorporate Vision Source programs and lenses.
Speaker: Jon Herring, ABOM
Times Available: TBD
Engineering a Practice Expansion
Description: In addition to adding more locations, you can become more profitable by combining two locations into one bigger practice. Sometimes it’s more profitable to add one, or more, doctors to your existing location, rather than opening a new office.
Speaker: Ryan Powell, OD and Brandon Hunter, OD
Times Available: TBD
How to Maximize Your Equipment Purchases
Description: What is your capture rate on your Optos®? What are you charging for the Optomap? This session will help answer questions around equipment vendors.
Speakers John McCall, OD
Times Available: TBD
Work with Meaning
Description: We all put our teams in circumstances that challenge them in their workday. Unfortunately, it is not always in a positive direction. This presentation looks at the ways we may be demotivating our teams and contrasts the things we can do to make work more meaningful. If you understand the why, you can overcome any ‘how.’
Speaker: Ted McElroy, OD
Times Available: TBD
Problem Solving in the Practice
Description: Our most efficient practitioners understand the importance of having a plan to overcome the daily challenges of operating a practice. This session is focused on sharing ideas and implementing strategy to improve communication and collaboration between doctors and staff.
Speaker: Jennifer Planitz, OD
Times Available: TBD