In order to run a successful practice, you must make sure that you have effective time management skills.  Maintaining a practice entails juggling various parts such as; scheduling and taking care of patients, bookkeeping/record keeping and financial outlooks, claims submission and review, patients account updates and marketing.  To ensure that all areas are being covered adequately, time management is the key!  Every provider should make sure to implement some type of scheduling system for the practice that outlines when each activity is to be completed and how much time will be spent doing so.  Some industries like financial services, are known to use color coded systems that allows for them to quickly see how much time is being spent on each activity and which areas may need more attention.  They can also use this system to prioritize their activities too.  All in all, each part is essential to the overall success of the practice.  Allowing the time, aka planning, to chart your time management so that you know everything is being taken care of and perhaps recognizing when you may need to hire someone or ask for help, can be what ensures that the practice continues to grow, reaching the next level desired.  Time management is applicable to everyone in the practice, regardless of the size.  Yet, when all employees see how impertative this piece is to even the owner/CEO, they will surely adopt these techniques and apply it to their own duties.  The practice as a whole needs good time management, along with each inidividual employee-all together the practice can flourish in ways that you may not thought were even possible!