Welcome to the Shared Practices podcast, our segment of Coach's Corner with my favorite co-host,

Caitlin, how are you doing today?

I'm doing really well. How are you? It's good to be here.

Doing so good. I'm excited because your internet is like rock solid. And when we were doing

stuff before, we had to like shut your camera off and all of that.

And now we're on video and you're here. You're with us. My next step is creating a podcast studio just

like yours. But I feel like Coach's Corner would need to come out a little bit more frequently

for me to be able to justify that setup, you know? This only took me eight years to build a podcast studio like this with actual wall art and all

of that. So, you know, no pressure.

Right.

I'm really excited for the topic today because one of the hardest things as a practice owner

is to create a sense that everyone knows their job, knows how to manage themselves, and is actually getting it

done. That is like one of the secrets of practice ownership that it's like, okay, if I could just

get everyone to do their freaking job, life would be so much better. And the answer to that is often

not what people think. Like the default is micromanage. Just get in there,

put your thumb on everyone, keep them accountable in an aggressive micromanagey kind of way.

And if you do that, like it might work, but it might burn people out. But today we're going to

talk about a theme that we've already been talking about here on the podcast recently, which is

checklists, which are essential to helping everyone feel comfortable with their job, staying on task,

using their time wisely, getting in and out of the office. And tell me, you know, why do people

not like checklist? Like, why is this a problem for people? Well, you just touched on it, I think,

which is, I think it's associated sometimes with

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