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1. Welcome to the
March Edition of
Paeds Biz
How to improve your
Paediatric Private Practice

2. An Introduction to Cathy LoveOccupational Therapist, Coach, Author and Speaker
For first time readers a quick intro, I am Cathy Love and I am the founding director of Nacre Consulting
and I work with parents and disability service providers to achieve brilliant outcomes for children with special needs. I
provide a range of services:
• Private practice coaching to business owners.
• Family Service Coaching for parents to help them manage their child’s team and services.
• Clinical supervision to individuals and allied health professional teams.
• Service delivery consultation to disability service providers.
More to be read about all that over on my website www.nacre.com.au.
Each month I write up news, useful information and pearls of wisdom for those working with children and families in
the disability sector. Given that it is a rapidly changing landscape and one that is increasingly privatised there is
typically lots of news to be shared.
Paeds Biz is a dedicated online easy to read FREE magazine for Australian allied health
professionals working with children and families.

3. This Months Topics Include:
• Productivity Hacks
• How HR compliant are you?
• Instagram - The easy way to use it for your business
• How to prevent your staff from leaving with your clients
• Why using an accounting system will make you more
profit
• Monthly Marketing Plans Made Achievable
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4. PRODUCTIVITY HACKS:
WHAT YOU COULD BE DOING BETTER
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Despite working long and mostly productive hours, my to-do list
never shortens. I continue to read, reach out to others, and
implement new productivity tricks. Here is my current best
thinking on GSD, a.k.a. ‘Getting Stuff Done.’
• Default Diary. Management Monday has made a huge difference
in my ability to work ON the business not IN it.
• ‘Time Blocking.’ I block out time in my diary to do specific tasks.
• ‘Colour Coding.’ No big surprise with the OT’ness of this.
• Productivity and time management apps.
• Accountability to others.
• Practice management software
• Notes. I dump ideas, conversations, to-dos, and so on, into an old
school notebook.
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5. HOW HR COMPLIANT ARE YOU?
We recently sent out a survey to a number of small businesses in a wide
range of industries, to ascertain how compliant they are around current
employment legislation.
The main issues centred on three key areas – hiring, performance and
culture. The main results were as follows:
1. A significant number of businesses do not review salaries annually.
2. 86% of respondents had fired someone, predominantly for non-
performance or fraud.
3. 60% did not have a Workplace Health and Safety Policy in place and
many were unaware of their legal obligations in this space.
4. 45% did not have a company policy on Sexual Harassment, Bullying
and EEO
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“The good news is that this is all easily fixed and does not
have to cost very much”
Guest Writer – Natasha Hawker

6. Read More: Useful tips
when using Instagram
for Business
INSTAGRAM - THE EASY WAY
TO USE IT FOR YOUR BUSINESS
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There is a whole world of scheduling tools for Instagram out there, just
like there is for other social media platforms, including Hootsuite,
Onlypult and Tailwind. We have stumbled across a particular program
called Later.
• How does it work? Later is a simple scheduling and managing tool
for Instagram. It lets you plan your content, grow your audience,
and share your photos and videos.
• Why we recommend Later: -
 Ease of use
 There is a “Free Plan” which allows 30
free posts each Month,
 “Search and Repost”
 Media Library” - upload, store and
manage all of you photos and videos
across any device.
Do you dream of being able to plan and schedule
your Instagram posts?
Guest Writer – Emma Samia

7. HOW TO PREVENT STAFF
FROM LEAVING WITH
YOUR CLIENTS
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There are some ways to minimise the risk of this happening, and I
wish to spare all of our readers this pain.
• Having a strong and legally correct and drawn contract of
engagement. Yes there will be an upfront cost for this, but as your
business grows, this document will be well used. Please seek legal
advice.
• Protecting your Intellectual Property. Your contracts and “Policy
and Procedure Manual” should contain information about your
Intellectual Property and its use.
• Talk to your staff. Make it clear that you are fair and
reasonable, but that there is a line that can be crossed in terms of
respectful and professional behaviour.
• Assertively manage relationships personally with all your current
and new referrers. They need to know who you are, why you do
what you do, and that you are the backbone of the business.
“It’s important to think out your position on staff
leaving with clients”

8. WHY USING AN ACCOUNTING
SYSTEM WILL MAKE YOU
MORE PROFIT
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If you’re using spreadsheets, today’s the day to switch to an
online accounting system. Sure you’ll need to spend an hour
learning what you need to do, but you’ll save countless hours in
the future.
• Accounting systems are accurate.
• Accounting systems ensure that all your income and expenses
are recorded correctly.
• Accounting systems save time.
• Accounting systems provide up-to-date information.
• Accounting systems will make you more profit.
Guest Writer – Amanda Fisher
www.amandafisher.com.au

9. It is important to know who your ideal client is. Who do you really want to
work with? .
It is hard to directly message your target market, so we need to find those
who already know them. We call this group of people your market and they
are the people your market to. When done well they will be active referrers to
your service and they will tell their colleagues.
We are in the business of building trusting relationships. Referrers will need
to get to know you, hear you, see you, read your material, meet with you and,
most importantly, hear positive stories from your clients.
The three P’s can help get your message out.
• People
• Pixel – get active on social media,
• Paper
”Allocate one hour on the first working day of the month to write your
marketing plan”.
MONTHLY MARKETING PLANS
MADE ACHEIVABLE
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Who’s up for
marketing
March ?

10. As a parent of a child with special needs there is
always a lot going on.
Parents may feel overwhelmed by child development experts, therapy, appointments and
complex systems. This leaves parents tired, overwhelmed and feeling guilty that they should
be able to do it all for their child.
Becoming Chief is book written for parents and service providers. It is written to help parents
find their way, gather their support tribe, set goals and manage their child’s team and
program. All the tough topics are covered, wonderful real life stories told and mountains of
parent wisdom shared. It is easy to read, practical and energising.
Becoming Chief is written by Cathy Love, Occupational Therapist, Coach, Speaker and
Author. She writes to her passion of helping parents feel strong, informed and organised so
that they can powerfully advocate for their child.
Her book has been reviewed by Source Kids Magazine, Amaze, USA’s Autism Parenting
Magazine and other publications.
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Book
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Available now from the Website E-book available to purchase here

11. Private Practice Coaching
How could a private practice coach help you? Need a hand with
policies and procedures? Where is your business plan up to?
Cathy Love is a specialist business coach who helps paediatric private practitioners run
powerful and profitable businesses. As a private practice pioneer in the 1990’s, Cathy
started, sustained and sold a successful Melbourne business. She understands the
lurking fear of failure, the stress of being an under-skilled manager and never having
enough time to do anything well. She gets the loneliness, the worry and the frustration of
being chronically over worked and under recognised.
Through her coaching programs, her clients gain skills and confidence to develop
business plans, policies and procedure manuals, manage and lead people, develop
innovate products, understand profit, market their services and install strong processes.
They get their management mojo kicked into gear.
Cathy passionately coaches and mentors her global clientele. The process is respectful,
practical and focused, discussions and solutions are specifically tailored to what you and
your business needs are, then and there. Her clients are left feeling energised and
significantly more confident in their ability to assertively manage their businesses. Her
knowledge of the business of allied health and the changing disability landscape is
unique and highly sought after.
Book a free 30 minute chat with Cathy today.
Cathy’s specialist private practice coaching sessions are
delivered via Skype, teleconferencing and face to face,
when logistics permit.
Book a FREE 30 minute chat with Cathy today
E: cathy@nacre.com.au | M: 0448 316 319

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