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Are you aware of your legal obligations as an employer?

An employee lodges a complaint with Fair Work Australia claiming she was expected to attend meetings outside of work hours and was not paid for these. You claim her attendance was optional and that’s why she wasn’t paid. Would you know how to manage this situation?...

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When my clinic flooded and what I did about it

  It was January 2016 and my wife, and I were on holiday in Florence when we received an email from one of my staff. He had come back for his first day of work after the Christmas and New Year break to discover that a water pipe had burst and flooded the entire...

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4 tips to help protect your practice online

    With so many competing issues to consider in business, it’s tempting to dismiss the threat of cyber security. After all, surely those with malicious intent would rather target big businesses, not physiotherapists? Unfortunately, that’s not always the...

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A recruitment tale

Got an interesting story for you today, based around recruitment and my interactions with a recruitment agency.   After much searching for my “unicorn” physio ( a female musc and womens health physio who lives within 20 mins of my clinic) I decided to try...

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10 reasons why you need to develop your people

  I can’t think of a profession where it is more important to develop your team than the private practice physiotherapy industry. I will give you my 10 reasons why:   1. Let’s consider the model of our industry. Our Australian health system is hurtling...

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The future of Physiotherapy in private practice

I wanted to write a post about the things that excite me about the future of the private practice physio profession in Australia, both now and over the next few years.   Multiple contributing factors are coming together to help us build an era of prosperity for our...

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Physio business coaches – am I really any different?

So how am I different from all of the other Physio business coaches?   Early in my business career I was coached by some of Australia’s best and most prominent physio business coaches.   Most of the physio business coaches in Australia focus on 2 things –...

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