Advertising feature Make your time work for you D
o you sometimes forget files, meetings, dates, keys or dead- lines? Do you need more than 24 hours
in a day just to tread water on your to-do list? Despite using top-of- the-range time-management/CRM software in your practice, do you feel you never have enough time to work on your practice, rather than merely working in your practice? If this sounds familiar, you are not
alone – accountants and dentists have far more in common than you’d think! We both make our living from easing our patients of pain – whether that is physical pain, the emotional pain of holding hang-ups over one’s smile, or the emotional pain of having to deal with a relentless tax inspector. Our diaries tend to be wall-to-wall dispensing our knowledge and skill to our clients, leaving us with little
A few simple strategies should help you – and your staff – make better use of your working day
should be bottom of your priorities. When making strategic plans
for your practice, ensure you write these down in an action plan. Set specific, measurable, accurate, realistic and time-bound targets. In other words, be ‘SMART’er with your ambitions and time. Consider delegating, passing
time to take a bird’s eye view and make our practices more profitable, or even just to enjoy life more. Here are a few strategies to help
you get more organised: Prioritise your to-do list into a
matrix – on one side, what is impor- tant and what is not important, on the other what is urgent versus non- urgent to form a grid. Important, urgent tasks must take precedence over all else, such as an emergency. Non-important, non-urgent items
on or subcontracting work which others can do to free up your time for only what you can do. If you are a principal, this includes taking lead- ership of the financial and strategic direction of the practice. Pass on operational responsibilities where appropriate to give you adequate time to develop the practice. Time is the one commodity we all
have an equal share of – it is how we spend it that defines how successful we can be.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Damian Turner CA is partner of Turner Medical LLP, a chartered accountancy firm offering specialist value- added account- ancy, taxation and financial services to the medical sector.
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