The Fastest Way to Get More Time Back in Your Clinic | GYC Podcast 368

Well, it's just you and I today, and we're gonna tackle a problem that we hear so often, and that I specifically heard as recent as last week when we had a new member join us in the business academy.

And he was saying, "You know what? I just don't have much time, much time to implement, much time to learn."

Mm.

But I actually had spoken to him a year earlier and he said, "You know, our business is growing, and maybe we'll need you at some point." And it's gotten to the point where he's like, "I just don't have time to think, time to scratch myself" kind of thing.

And my wife, who's practice manager and operations manager, is just feeling totally burnt out.

They've got a very small team.

It's just them plus one other.

No problem really getting clients come through the door, but they're at this point where it's like there's just no time to work on the things they need to do to grow the team-

Mm

... to secure up some of those marketing streams of new clients, um, to get on top of their finances.

And I thought it'd be really cool to go through your experience, my experience, and also how we might navigate coaching someone like this-

Yeah

... because it's such a common narrative.

So someone like this comes to you.

Yes.

Uh, you have your first meeting.

Walk me through what you would go through to understand the situation and then sort of navigate defining some respite for this clinic owner.

Yes.

It is so common, and we hear it so often from the people that we coach, even halfway through coaching or whatever the timeframe is, where people just feel overwhelmed and just feel like they've got to stop doing some things.

But what I would usually say to them is, "What's gonna change?" Like, what, how are we gonna solve this without coaching?

Yes.

If it hasn't changed here, what's going to change? And really being really practical and saying, "Let's pull up the calendar.

Are we putting out spot fires constantly? Like, what is it that's making us feel like we don't have time? Because I guarantee that if something else urgent came up, you would find the time to fit it in.

So why is it that we can't find the time for coaching, for working on the business, for recruiting, whatever that might be." And so when we pull up the calendar, often retrospectively it looks like there is time in the diary, and that's where-

Yeah