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 throughout the meeting. Pre-Registration is required.
Thursday, April 20
Fixing your Staff (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Understand pearls to retain good talent along with tips that motivate staff to create a great team approach. It is equally important to understand as a leader how to take leadership for the benefit of the entire team and when it is time to end a relationship.
Chaos to Culture (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Stressed Out? Burnt Out? How to bring wellness into the work environment starting with yourself and spreading it to your team.
Capture Rate - Full Office Engagement (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Covering ideas and ways that each department in the practice plays a role in capture rate and patients purchasing from the practice/increasing sales.
Preparing to Sell (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Thinking of selling your practice within the next 5 years? Learn what to do to find buyers, maximize profit and have an efficient transition.
Convincing Mom re Myopia Mgnt (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Learn the skills and tools to present solutions for kids' eyewear, which will increase capture rate and improve patient satisfaction!
5 Tips for Hiring Staff Revealed! (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: One of the biggest challenges OD owners have always had is hiring good people. Drs Eric Hammond and Laurie Sorrenson discuss how to overcome this challenge and hire the RIGHT team members QUICKLY. We will also discuss how important onboarding a new employee is and how to do it successfully.
Managing Glaucoma Uncertainty (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Documentation, follow up and treatment in the case that is not so clear cut
Eulerity: Best Practices from Super Users (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Optimize your digital marketing strategy. Eulerity is a digital marketing platform designed to optimize and simplify your practice's marketing efforts. It offers a ton of exclusive features and benefits, and we want to make sure you are taking advantage of all of them. We will provide best practices and recommendations for how to optimize your digital marketing strategy and your Eulerity subscription.
KPIs - Clinical (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Measuring KPIs for clinical aspects of a practice are just as important as measuring any other area of the practice. How are you engaging your team to measure the clinical metrics of your practice for greater success?
Optical Assortment Tool - Data Driven Optical Profitability (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Managing the optical based on clear data is the key to profitability. Vision Source has resources for you to have a strategic approach to managing your optical. We will discuss the strategic approach to success and also the tools available to help you manage the optical faster.
Creating & Working the Perfect Schedule (4:30 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Control your scheudle, don't let it control you! An efficient schedule provides for higher profits and improved efficiency. Learn best practices to manage your scheudle and take advantage of online booking.
Managing Change in a Changing Environment (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Change is the name of the game in our profession. Managing change can be your greatest asset to having a cohesive practice. We will discuss managing change in this changing environment and how you can do that successfully.
Advanced Staff Professional Development: Creating opportunities for your team (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: What is your strategy for continued training and professional development for your team? Learn what opportunities are available and best practies in staff professional development
VS MAX Tool: Tips & Tricks (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Implementation of MAX to help the practice with efficiencies and profitability can be a hurdle in many practices. MAX is a great Vision Source resource to strategically managing the optical. Join this discussion to learn from your colleagues some of the best practices, tips and tricks to the greatest success with MAX.
Concussion 101: Dx and Managing Concussions (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Optometrists are uniquely positioned to diagnose and help treat traumatic brain injuries, including concussions. Learn what you need to know to diagnose and manage concussions in your practice
All about Frame Dream… (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Frame Dream provides the how/why, and what's in it for me to implement your best approach for Frame Strategy - which level is best for me? How do I best maximize efficiencies and profitability?
Leveraging Business Technology to Improve Office Efficiencies (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Creating the practice of the future relies on technology leveraged to optimize your office operations and reduce costs. With rising costs, offices need to be more innovative and creative in their approach to streamlining their office operations. Learn how to leverage tools of the future including Virtual Assistants, Artificial Intelligence and technology platforms to change the way your practice operates
Setting Professional Fees Appropriatly (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Are your fees set appropriatly? In a wold of managed care it is important to make sure you are compensated appropriatly for your services. Learn best practices on setting your professional service fees.
"No Pressure" Laser Workshop: Advancements & Options in Glaucoma Care (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Experience SLT laser first hand, optometric scope of practice is expanding across the country as is the role of the optometrist as the primary eyecare provider. Get hands on experience with SLT in this limited size workshop.
Dipping your Toes into Aesthetics (4:20 - 5:10 pm)
Description: Aesthetics can be a natural progression when delivering advanced dry eye care treatments. Learn the best first steps to take in paving the way for this expansion and how to prepare your patients for the transition.
Friday, April 21
Why you need an Office Manager+B22 (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Office Managers play a critical role in working with practice owners to lead successful teams and increase revenue, and building positive culture. Learn how to add a manager to your practice's leadership team and what roles/responibilities could be delegated to them.
Increase CL Profits, Drive CL Sales, and Increase Staff Efficiency. (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: A silent revenue stream for your practice is E-commerce passive revenue. Many practices have not tapped the potential in this revenue stream. In addition to the revenue stream, E-commerce provides a huge efficiency component for staff. Join to discuss how you can improve and capitalize on having a strong E-commerce process in the practice.
Preparing to Buy / Next Fund (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Looking to buy your first or 50th practice? Learn what matters in when evaluating an opportunity and what all goes into purcasing a practice. We will also discuss the VS Next Fund and how it can help
Atropine -Myopia tips and tricks for myopia management (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Discuss best practices in using Atropine for the management of myopia
Give People What They Want: Better Teams & Better Patient Experience (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Personality profiles help us better understand ourselves and those we interact with, teammates and patients alike. We can use this knowledge to reduce conflict, improve relationships and enhance the customer experience.
Handling Tough converastions with Patients & Staff (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Tough conversations are not enjoyable nor unavoidable. Learn strategies to better handle these conversations and even turn negatives into positives where possible.
Efficient Glaucoma Conversations (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Learn to describe the condition concisely and have discussions about diagnosis, management, and treatment options tailored to the patient in your chair.
Glaucoma management: When to opt for laser and conventional surgical intervention (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Discuss when laser and conventional surgical management may be better option for patients with glaucoma.
KPIs - Optical (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Learn how to not just track your optical KPI's but strategically manage them to increase sales and profits.
KPIs - Contact Lenses (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Measuring and implementing a strategic practice system is important to having a successful contact lens practice. Understanding where your practice is by tracking KPIs and metrics is where is starts.
Managed Vision Care Updates (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Managed vision care is an important tool to bring patients to your practice. Learn profitable and compliant strategies to maximize your opportunities when working with managed vision care plans.
Scribes: Increased Efficiency & Profitability (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Scribes can increase profit by enhancing patient experience and improving efficiency. Join the discussion on the use of scribes, and how to implement them within your practice.
Staff Onboarding - Getting the perfect start for the new employee (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Getting staff started in the right direction for your team is extremely important, Staff onboarding is the foundation to having a great team. This discussion will present ideas on how you can have a successful staff onboarding process that is easily repeated when you have additional hires.
Online frame shopping - build excitement before the exam (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Are you leveraging technology to allow patients to "PreView" frames before their visit? Learn why engaging patients ahead of time drives excitement and additional optical sales.
Functional Vision Assessment & Treatment for Primary Care Clinic (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Assessing and managing functional visual skills is essential for optimal care in the primary care clinic. Learn the fundamentals of evaluating, diagnosing, and treating visual deficiencies that can impact quality of life and be addressed by trained optometrists.
Selling Kids Packages in Your Practice (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Learn the skills and tools to present solutions for kids' eyewear, which will increase capture rate and improve patient satisfaction!
Bringing on an Associate: Hiring and Contracts (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description:
Lean Practice Management (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: An optometry practice as a business model can be broken down into two components serving patients and subsequent income generation. Tips on increasing key metrics and overlooked areas that lead to reduced cash flow will be analyzed, in order to help the practice owner develop a methodology of creating a lean practice.
"No Pressure" Laser Workshop: Advancements & Options in Glaucoma Care (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Experience SLT laser first hand, optometric scope of practice is expanding across the country as is the role of the optometrist as the primary eyecare provider. Get hands on experience with SLT in this limited size workshop
Dipping your Toes into Aesthetics (10:30 - 11:15 am)
Description: Aesthetics can be a natural progression when delivering advanced dry eye care treatments. Learn the best first steps to take in paving the way for this expansion and how to prepare your patients for the transition.
Saturday, April 22
Fixing your Staff (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Understand pearls to retain good talent along with tips that motivate staff to create a great team approach. It is equally important to understand as a leader how to take leadership for the benefit of the entire team and when it is time to end a relationship.
Chaos to Culture (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Stressed Out? Burnt Out? How to bring wellness into the work environment starting with yourself and spreading it to your team
Capture Rate - Full Office Engagement (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Covering ideas and ways that each department in the practice plays a role in capture rate and patients purchasing from the practice/increasing sales
Preparing to Sell (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Thinking of selling your practice within the next 5 years? Learn what to do to find buyers, maximize profit and have an efficient transition.
Convincing Mom re Myopia Mgnt (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Learn the skills and tools to present solutions for kids' eyewear, which will increase capture rate and improve patient satisfaction!
5 Tips for Hiring Staff Revealed! (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: One of the biggest challenges OD owners have always had is hiring good people. Drs Eric Hammond and Laurie Sorrenson discuss how to overcome this challenge and hire the RIGHT team members QUICKLY. We will also discuss how important onboarding a new employee is and how to do it successfully.
Managing Glaucoma Uncertainty (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Documentation, follow up and treatment in the case that is not so clear cut
Eulerity: Best Practices from Super Users (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Optimize your digital marketing strategy. Eulerity is a digital marketing platform designed to optimize and simplify your practice's marketing efforts. It offers a ton of exclusive features and benefits, and we want to make sure you are taking advantage of all of them. We will provide best practices and recommendations for how to optimize your digital marketing strategy and your Eulerity subscription.
KPIs - Clinical (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Measuring KPIs for clinical aspects of a practice are just as important as measuring any other area of the practice. How are you engaging your team to measure the clinical metrics of your practice for greater success?
Optical Assortment Tool - Data Driven Optical Profitability (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Managing the optical based on clear data is the key to profitabilty. Vision Source has resources for you to have a strategic approach to managing your optical. We will discuss the strategic approach to success and also the tools available to help you manage the optical faster.
Creating & Working the Perfect Schedule (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Control your scheudle, don't let it control you! An efficient schedule provides for higher profits and improved efficiency. Learn best practices to manage your scheudle and take advantage of online booking.
Managing Change in a Changing Environment (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Change is the name of the game in our profession. Managing change can be your greatest asset to having a cohesive practice. We will discuss managing change in this changing environment and how you can do that successfully.
Advanced Staff Professional Development: Creating opportunities for your team (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: What is your strategy for continued training and professional development for your team? Learn what opportunities are available and best practies in staff professional development
VS MAX Tool: Tips & Tricks (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Implementation of MAX to help the practice with efficiencies and profitabiltiy can be a hurdle in many practices. MAX is a great Vision Source resource to strategically managing the optical. Join this discussion to learn from your colleagues some of the best practices, tips and tricks to the greatest success with MAX.
Living Trusts: Protecting what you've built (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Learn about and have your questions anwered regarding living trusts, what they are and how they help protect what you've built.
Concussion 101: Dx and Managing Concussions (2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Optometrists are uniquely positioned to diagnose and help treat traumatic brain injuries, including concussions. Learn what you need to know to diagnose and manage concussions in your practice
All about Frame Dream...(2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Frame Dream provides the how/why, and what's in it for me to implement your best approach for Frame Strategy - which level is best for me? How do I best maximize efficiencies and profitability?
Leveraging Business Technology to Improve Office Efficiencies 2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Creating the practice of the future relies on technology leveraged to optimize your office operations and reduce costs. With rising costs, offices need to be more innovative and creative in their approach to streamlining their office operations. Learn how to leverage tools of the future including Virtual Assistants, Artificial Intelligence and technology platforms to change the way your practice operates
Setting Professional Fees Appropriatly 2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Are your fees set appropriatly? In a wold of managed care it is important to make sure you are compensated appropriatly for your services. Learn best practices on setting your professional service fees.
"No Pressure" Laser Workshop: Advancements & Options in Glaucoma Care 2:30 - 3:15 pm)
Description: Experience SLT laser first hand, optometric scope of practice is expanding across the country as is the role of the optometrist as the primary eyecare provider. Get hands on experience with SLT in this limited size workshop
Why you need an Office Manager+B22 (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Office Managers play a critical role in working with practice owners to lead successful teams and increase revenue, and building positive culture. Learn how to add a manager to your practice's leadership team and what roles/responibilities could be delegated to them.
Increase CL Profits, Drive CL Sales, and Increase Staff Efficiency. (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: A silent revenue stream for your practice is E-commerce passive revenue. Many practices have not tapped the potential in this revenue stream. In addition to the revenue stream, E-commerce provides a huge efficiency component for staff. Join to discuss how you can improve and capitalize on having a strong E-commerce process in the practice.
Preparing to Buy / Next Fund (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Looking to buy your first or 50th practice? Learn what matters in when evaluating an opportunity and what all goes into purcasing a practice. We will also discuss the VS Next Fund and how it can help
Atropine -Myopia tips and tricks for myopia management (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Discuss best practices in using Atropine for the management of myopia
Give People What They Want: Better Teams & Better Patient Experience (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Personality profiles help us better understand ourselves and those we interact with, teammates and patients alike. We can use this knowledge to reduce conflict, improve relationships and enhance the customer experience.
Handling Tough converastions with Patients & Staff (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Tough conversations are not enjoyable nor unavoidable. Learn strategies to better handle these conversations and even turn negatives into positives where possible.
Efficient Glaucoma Conversations (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: How to describe the condition concisely and convey the importance for returning for follow up among other conversations.
Glaucoma management: When to opt for laser and conventional surgical intervention (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Discuss when laser and conventional surgical management may be better option for patients with glaucoma.
KPIs - Optical (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Learn how to not just track your optical KPI's but strategically manage them to increase sales and profits.
KPIs - Contact Lenses (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Measuring and implementing a strategic practice system is important to having a successful contact lens practice. Understanding where your practice is by tracking KPIs and metrics is where is starts.
Managed Vision Care Updates (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Managed vision care is an important tool to bring patients to your practice. Learn profitable and compliant strategies to maximize your opportunities when working with managed vision care plans.
Scribes: Increased Efficiency & Profitability (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Scribes can increase profit by enhancing patient experience and improving efficiency. Join the discussion on the use of scribes, and how to implement them within your practice.
Staff Onboarding - Getting the perfect start for the new employee (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Getting staff started in the right direction for your team is extremely important, Staff onboarding is the foundation to having a great team. This discussion will present ideas on how you can have a successful staff onboarding process that is easily repeated when you have additional hires.
Online frame shopping - build excitement before the exam (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Are you leveraging technology to allow patients to "PreView" frames before their visit? Learn why engaging patients ahead of time drives excitement and additional optical sales.
Functional Vision Assessment & Treatment for Primary Care Clinic (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Assessing and managing functional visual skills is essential for optimal care in the primary care clinic. Learn the fundamentals of evaluating, diagnosing, and treating visual deficiencies that can impact quality of life and be addressed by trained optometrists.
Living Trusts: Protecting what you've built (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Learn about and have your questions anwered regarding living trusts, what they are and how they help protect what you've built.
Selling Kids Packages in Your Practice (3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Learn the skills and tools to present solutions for kids' eyewear, which will increase capture rate and improve patient satisfaction!
"No Pressure" Laser Workshop: Advancements & Options in Glaucoma Care 3:30 - 4:15 pm)
Description: Experience SLT laser first hand, optometric scope of practice is expanding across the country as is the role of the optometrist as the primary eyecare provider. Get hands on experience with SLT in this limited size workshop