Accountability Coaching

You Know What to Do. So Why Aren’t You Doing It?

You buy a $50 gym membership.

You know what every piece of equipment does.

You know which exercises to do, how to do them and how often. You know what supplements to take.

You know how much water to drink, how much protein to eat and which foods you should probably stop pretending are “just a little treat.”

But somehow, those extra pounds are still hanging around.

Then you hire a trainer.

Now somebody expects you to show up. Somebody asks whether you did what you said you would do.

You’re not paying for access to the equipment.

You’re paying for “get me through this.”

It’s the same with your practice.

You may know exactly what needs attention. But then a therapist quits, a parent complains, the schedule springs a leak and the important project gets pushed to next week. Then next month. Then apparently never.

Accountability Coaching helps you decide what matters most, keep taking action and stay with it until the darn thing is done and working in your practice.

DIY Doesn’t Always Mean Doing It Alone

Some owners can make a plan, block the time and get it done while fires are popping up all around them. More power to them.

But if issues involving your staff, families and practice knock your priorities off course, you may need someone helping you stay focused.

Sometimes the best of us need our hands held through something. That doesn’t mean you’re incapable. It means you’re running a pediatric private practice, which is not exactly known for uninterrupted workdays.

You’ll have one person who knows what you’re working toward, checks your progress and helps keep the day-to-day from eating your plan alive.

Discover What’s Really Going On in Your Practice

You may be absolutely sure you know what the problem is in your practice—and how to fix it. But there’s usually something else underneath it that you can’t see yet.

That’s where we come in. Your business analyst, assisted by a custom software program, analyzes the situation and reveals what’s really going on in your practice right before your eyes. That’s what your accountability consulting will address. That might include:

Writing or updating your business plan
Strengthening revenue-producing activities
Deciding when and whom to hire
Working through salary versus independent contractor decisions
Training a marketing manager
Developing clinical or administrative leaders
Writing policies, procedures or checklists
Restoring systems that have slipped
Getting a previously completed management program fully back in place
Moving responsibilities off your plate and back where they belong

The focus is your practice, your priorities and the result you need to produce.

When a System Falls Out, Guess Who Picks It Back Up?

Usually, you. A manager leaves. A strong team member resigns. A system starts wobbling.

You step in temporarily. Then six months go by and you’re still doing work somebody else used to.

Accountability Coaching helps you restore those systems, put responsibilities back where they belong and keep “I’ll just handle it for now” from becoming your permanent job description.

You Get a Team—and One Person Who Knows What You Said You’d Do

You’ll have a team of specialists with expertise in different areas of pediatric private practice.

You’ll also have one dedicated accountability partner who meets with you regularly, knows what you’re working on and keeps track of the commitments you’ve made.

You won’t be passed around or forced to start from scratch every week.

You get one consistent person helping you follow through, with a larger team of experts behind them when needed.

Who Accountability Coaching Is For

Accountability Coaching may be right for you if you:

Know what needs to happen but struggle to make it happen consistently
Keep putting an important project behind the latest emergency
Start strong but lose momentum when the week gets busy
Need help breaking a big goal into manageable steps
Have a plan that has been sitting unfinished for far too long
Need to strengthen or restore a practice system
Have completed a management program but let parts of it slip
Want someone checking whether you did what you said you would do

In other words, this is where good intentions become real progress in your practice.

What You Walk Away With

Depending on the focus of your work, you may walk away with:

A business plan that maps out a clear direction for where the practice is going
Stronger revenue-producing activities that increase practice income
Better control over your finances—and fewer unpleasant surprises
A clear hiring and staffing strategy so you know how and when to hire
Written policies, procedures and checklists that make expectations clear and work more consistent
A tiered bonus structure that motivates each department and rewards real results
Stronger communication skills that help you lead more clearly and confidently
Specific management SOPs that help the area being addressed run more smoothly
An exit strategy that prepares the practice—and you—for what comes next

The exact outcome depends on the issue you bring to the table.
But the point is always the same: stop circling it and start completing it.

How Accountability Coaching Works

Accountability Coaching is available in two ways: you can purchase it as a stand-alone service, or it may already be included as part of one of our programs or programettes.

When purchased on its own, Accountability Coaching is sold in five-hour packages and delivered one-on-one over Zoom.

Your coach works with you to:

Identify what needs attention
Uncover what’s really causing the problem
Map out the exact steps needed to handle it
Keep the work moving until the issue is resolved or well under control

Use It to Get an Existing Program Back on Track

Accountability Coaching can also help when you’ve completed a management program but parts of it were never fully implemented—or have slowly fallen out of use.

Your coach helps you get those systems back in place, working properly and staying that way.

When Coaching Is Included in a Program

Our programs and programettes include a set number of Accountability Coaching hours in the price.

If more time is needed to complete the work, additional coaching can be purchased in five-hour packages. Your schedule and total number of hours will depend on the program, project or issue being addressed.