Build an Invested Team

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Optometric Management, by Rebecca L. Johnson

  • Start with Vision: A good leader has a clear vision and the ability to communicate it to others in a way that they want to be a part of it.
  • Provide Job Descriptions: Most employees want to do a good job. Most often employees perform below our expectations because we have not properly communicated our expectations. Job description
  • Continue to Communicate: Role clarity is the first step in moving your team toward the same goal. In employee reviews and meetings, continue to emphasize the objectives of each employee and how his or her goals contribute to achieving the over-arching vision of the business to keep everyone on track.
  • Achieve Your Goals: Imaging setting a straight path to a destination, but every time you take 50 steps straight, you take one step to the right. Even though you are moving toward the destination, you will miss the mark. It is impossible for an organization to be successful when there isn’t clear alignment between its objectives and what employees spend time doing.

Digital Lens Technology Benefits Island Countries

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Eye Mobile, Antigua, owned by Mr. Byron Andrews, offers high quality designer brand frames, lenses, contact lenses, and the leading technology in vision correction at competitive prices. Adding the Q-2100 in 2010 and the nanoCLEAR AR, Byron and his staff are thrilled to provide just-in-time delivery of eyeglass lenses to locals and tourists alike.

Central Optical Limited, Jamaica, owned by Dr. and Mr. Riley-Ricketts, is a high traffic location, booked months in advanced. Adding the Q-2100 with nanoCLEAR AR unit to their lab and they are very successful with onsite lens production.

Optica Select, in the Antilles, owned by Dr. Fredrich Davelaar, is an ophthalmology clinic with dispensary in the city of Curacao.  Purchasing a Q-2100 with CFL molds for their lab, they are a staunch supporter of the progressive designs and its benefit to their patients. They expect to add the nanoCLEAR AR unit to their practice in the coming months.

Other Q-2100 system users may be found on the islands of Puerto Rico, Guam, Saipan, and Barbados.

ultraSUN IIMany of Optical Dynamics lens products are well suited for warm tropical locations. The ultraSUN sunglass photochromic handles warm temperatures extremely well and is ideal for patients who spend a lot of time outdoors in sunny climates.  With our nanoCLEAR AR product, because of the way its processed, it is essentially impossible to induce craze in the AR stack. As a result, nanoCLEAR AR is damaged far less in boiling water and salt water tests than vacuum lenses, for a durable AR coating in coastal locations.

Be Sure to Capitalize on all the nanoCLEAR AR System Capabilities

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As a nanoCLEAR AR system owner, you have the ability to produce AR progressive lenses in office in under 90-minutes! Let your patients know that you have invested in the latest technology to offer the ultimate in customer service.  In addition to nanoCLEAR AR, you have the ability to offer nanoXT hardcoat, nanoGUARD extra tough hardcoat and nanoCHROME/FLASH sunglass mirrors. Be sure to capitalize on all the specialized products you deliver.

Use this handy chart to remind staff and lab managers of the nanoCLEAR AR  system capabilities.

S. African Distributor Celebrates More than 20 Years with Company

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VME LogoVision Machinery and Equipment (Pty) Ltd (VME) was established in 1995, and includes the distribution of the Q-2100 Digital Lens Systems from Optical Dynamics. Twenty-two years later, with offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, VME remains an active distributor of Optical Dynamics in Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands. VME imports, warehouses and distributes the Q2100 Lens System and the nanoCLEAR Anti Reflective Coating machine as well as providing a full range of spare parts and back up service.

In addition to systems placed throughout the continent including Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria, VME uses the the technology in their own chain of optical locations throughout S. Africa.

We look forward to many more years of successful partnership with Vision Machinery and Equipment.

Strategies for New Hires

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EyeCare Business

INFORMAL onboarding consists of employees learning about their new jobs without an organizational plan or written process. It may include job shadowing and knowledge exchange with key employees, mentoring and coaching with managers, and on-the-job training with existing employees.

Hello and welcomeFORMAL onboarding includes a sequence of procedures that take a new employee through the process of learning job tasks and office social norms. Activities can include: Web-based video orientations, e-tutorials, interval training planned so learning occurs at specifically planned junctures, team roundtables, and, finally, field experiences and product training with key vendors.

The most successful onboarding programs have one individual overseeing how the employee navigates the process, and all current employees are included in some of the activities. According to the SHRM, there are four elements that indicate a successful onboarding.

SELF CONFIDENCE in job performance, which effects organizational commitment.

ROLE CLARITY, making sure your new hire understands their role and expectations.

SOCIAL INTEGRATION, when an employee begins to establish healthy working relationships with existing employees.

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE KNOWLEDGE, an understanding of your practice’s culture and how they fit into it. This is key to a new hire’s ability to support your principles, values, and mission.