Building Your Leadership Team
You Can’t Be the Only Person Leading the Practice Forever
When you’re the only person actually leading the practice, every important question, decision and problem eventually comes back to you.
Everyone needs direction. Everyone needs an answer.
It’s exhausting, overwhelming and not sustainable.
The answer isn’t to work harder. It’s to build more leadership around you.
Why Letting Go Feels So Hard
Building leadership requires something many practice owners struggle with: trusting someone else to handle things properly. You may worry they won’t do it as well as you would. Or you look at the time it’ll take to teach them and think, “Heck, I could’ve done it myself by now.”
In the beginning, that may be true. Developing leaders takes time.
But if you keep doing everything because it’s faster today, you’ll still be doing everything a year from now and five years from now—if you haven’t burnt out by then.
Building Your Leadership Team shows you how to identify qualified staff and gradually develop their leadership skills and responsibilities—so your trust is based on what they’ve proven they can handle, not blind faith.
Who Building Your Leadership Team Is For
This program is for pediatric private practice owners who:
- Feel like everything still comes back to them
- Know they need leaders but aren’t sure who—or when
- Have great employees but don’t know who can actually lead
- Are uncertain if they should promote an existing candidate or hire someone new
- Want more capable people carrying real responsibility
- Want to step back without the wheels coming off
- May eventually sell and want a team that can keep things running without them
You don’t have to build a full leadership team all at once.
You need to know who’s ready, what leadership your practice actually needs and how to set people up to succeed.
What We Work On
Together, we help you:
- Figure out where you need leadership
- Identify people with real leadership potential
- Decide when to promote from within vs. when to hire
- Bring new leaders into their roles gradually
- Train and compensate them appropriately
- Build more layers of responsibility so everything doesn’t land on you
Don’t Hand Someone a Title and Hope for the Best
A great clinician isn’t automatically a great leader.
A great front office person isn’t automatically a great leader.
And even someone with real leadership potential can flop if you throw them into the deep end with a new title and say, “Okay, go manage people.”
That’s why the gradual, step-by-step approach matters.
They get a real chance to succeed.
And you’re a whole lot less likely to turn one of your best employees into a miserable manager who now wants to quit.
Stop Being the Only One Pushing the Practice Forward
When you’re the only person reinforcing expectations, talking about goals and trying to move the practice forward, every message comes from the same mouth: yours.
A leadership team changes that.
Now you’ve got other people helping communicate the same goals, reinforce the same standards and keep everyone moving in the same direction.
It’s no longer just you saying, “Here’s where we’re going.”
It starts becoming the way the practice operates.
And hallelujah, you’re not the only one pushing the boulder uphill anymore.
What You Walk Away With
Your takeaway from Building Your Leadership Team includes:
- A clear leadership structure
- A proven way to spot future leaders
- Certainty about whether to promote from within or hire
- More people carrying real responsibility
- A practical approach to developing effective leadership
- Less of the whole darn practice sitting on your shoulders
In plain English: you stop being the only person keeping the place together.
How Building Your Leadership Team Works
Building Your Leadership Team is one of our programettes—a smaller, highly focused and affordable coaching program you can dig into without taking on a substantial investment of time or money.
The program is delivered through 10 hours of one-on-one accountability coaching with the practice owner on Zoom.
The schedule is flexible and based on your practice’s needs. If you don’t finish within the initial 10 hours, coaching continues in additional five-hour packages until you do.
Learn from a Practice Owner Who’s Been in Your Shoes
Building Your Leadership Team is delivered by Diane Crecelius, PT, and Founder of ABC Pediatric Therapy.
Diane built a thriving practice from scratch and grew it to more than 3,000 visits a week and over 200 staff members. She ultimately sold the company for maximum value, leaving her and her family set for life.
You don’t build something like that by doing everything yourself.
Diane knows how to find good people, develop leaders and build layers of responsibility so the whole practice isn’t sitting on one person.
In addition to her business achievements, Diane is known for her role as Peds-A-Palooza® Community & Conferences Co-Creator.
Building Your Leadership Team: The Ultimate Outcome
A strong leadership team gives you something every overwhelmed practice owner desperately needs: other capable people helping lead.
More people carrying responsibility.
More people reinforcing expectations.
More people helping move the practice toward the same goals.
Eventually, that means more freedom for you to step back from the day-to-day without worrying that the whole place is going to implode.
If you eventually want to sell, that matters too. A practice with a strong leadership team that can keep running without you is a much stronger, higher-valued business than one where you are the business.
You Don’t Have to Carry the Whole Thing Alone
We know you built this practice to help kiddos and their families, not to be buried by it.
Building Your Leadership Team helps you develop the people who can help carry the practice with you—and keep it moving forward.
Let’s talk! Find out more about Building Your Leadership Team.