Class 111 - Happy Friday!
Great job to the "ODD" Teams on your comments to last week's post. There was something unique and of value in each of the team’s comments. I encourage you to read them weekly whether you are to comment on the blog or not. Thanks to Team 13 who put together a listing of things to do 3 months before opening. I have included them in the power point.
Keep up all the positive energy that is apparent with your class...even after Part IV boards. :)
This week we discussed the difference between a vision and mission statement. We also discussed the value of writing a vision and mission statement for your business. You will find the links to this week’s power point, YouTube examples and the Franklin Covey Website under the lectures and PowerPoint section of the class web page.
This week's assignment is for you to write a vision and mission statement which will be included in your personal business plan. Your vision statement should be approx. 3/4 of a page long and your mission statement 3-4 sentences. This is not necessarily a slam dunk assignment and I would encourage you to take some extra time to really think of where you want to be in 5 years and what the mission of your business will be.
Points to remember:
The vision statement is about your values and beliefs.
The mission statement is about who you will serve, what value they will receive, and what is the ultimate result you seek.
Also remember to write this assignment in 3rd person.
After you write your two statements, share them with your team mates for feedback and critique.
Blog Comments due - November 22. - “Even” teams are to comment on this Blog. Please keep comments to 2-3 sentences per question below.
Topic to comment on is:
What resources - other than ones listed above - did you use to help you with writing your vision and mission statements?
When critiquing your team mate's statements, what advice did you give them?
What was easy and what was hard about writing this assignment?
Lastly, share your mission statement.
Have a great week. Alexis
Team 12:
ReplyDeleteWhen writing our mission statement and vision we concluded that the vision was much like writing an expanded mission statement, and that is how we approached it. For help with writing it we first created a list of the things that we found important in practice and services to our community and then condensed that into a "what does this all mean" kind of format of a couple of sentences.
I think the hardest part about writing these assignments was being able to convey what we wanted in such a limited amount of wordage. Most of the advice we had was for each of us to remember that it was supposed to be in third person.
Our mission is to empower people, through cooperative care and continuing doctor/employee education, to significantly lessen their symptoms and improve their functional capabilities in order to achieve their health goals.
Team 10:
ReplyDeleteWhen writing our mission statement we used a number of resources. Some of the most helpful were the websites of Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and Inc. magazines. They had numerous articles on successful mission statements. When we critiqued each others statements the most important thing we found was to not be vague. It is easy to get caught up in wordiness and then you end up with a statement that says absolutely nothing but would score big on Scrabble. The easiest thing about this topic was figuring out personal values. The hardest thing was creating a statement that differentiates your practice from others and gives you a unique position in the market.
My personal mission statement for my practice is:
The mission of this clinic is to:
Provide superior Chiropractic care the way it was intended: one specific, hands-on adjustment at a time.
To give every patient, no matter their circumstances, effective results so they can achieve their optimal well-being and live the life that they desire, free from dis-ease.
To live our own lives as beacons of wellness for our patients and others in the community in order to spread the benefits of the Chiropractic lifestyle.
Team 22
ReplyDeleteOkay, so we haven't come up with our official "team" mission statement yet. We are awaiting input from all members. As this week's team 22 blog representative, I will share my experience.
The resources I utilized were those provided in class as well as a text book on small business management I bought for an undergrad class I took with Ms. Vander Horn and exercises from Dr. Robert Brooks "Taking Care of People" seminar.
In crtitiquing other's statements, I felt it's helpful to keep in mind these are individual values and not to ever critique the values of another person, rather the way they are communicating the values. So I looked at things like grammer, readability, understandability, etc, etc from the outsider's perspective. That would be my advice to others as well. Make sure it is simple enough to read and understand what the actual message is your trying to get across.
The easiest thing for me was determining my values, while the most difficult part was putting my vision into a concise statement that wasn't a how to manual.
My mission statement is:
"To balance the spines of Cedar Park and increase awareness of the body's unlimited potential."
Team 8
ReplyDeletePersonally I went online and looked at offices that I’m both familiar with as well as not familiar with. I have a pretty good idea what I want my office to look like the day open as well as 5 years down the road so I tried to find websites of offices that are on the same page of how I want my office. I think most mission statements I found were very similar and it really helped guide me to come to my concise, powerful mission statement.
When critiquing the other teammates mission statements I found that most of my groups were pretty similar. We all have close to the same idea for our office someday so our mission statements were pretty close however there were some words I found in others that I liked and also there were some words/word combinations that I found to be confusing and commented on it. I then told them to maybe look into re writing that sentence because the message they were trying to get a crossed was great however the wording was just a bit confusing.
I thought the vision statement was pretty easy because I know what I want my office to look like when I’m 5 years out so it was pretty much just putting my vision into words. I have a personal vision statement and that coincides with the office vision statement pretty well. The hard part I found was making my thoughts sound professional and powerful on paper. If I could explain in words to someone what my vision for the office is I think that would be easier than making it sound good on paper.
My Mission Statement:
The mission and purpose of our office is to educate and adjust as many families as possible back to health using principles of chiropractic. Our goal is to have everyone in our community expressing their optimal health potiential naturally without drugs or surgery. Our corrective chiropractic care releases the inborn potential found in every person, encouraging happier, healthier lives.
Team 24:
ReplyDeleteOther than the resources from class, our team utilized Stephen Robbins' Textbook "Management 9th Edition" to compose our mission statement. We also searched the internet to analyze what other chiropractors were putting on their websites and compared their vision with each of our individual mission statements. It was not only interesting to see what others were saying, but sometimes we found it comedic the quotes we found titled mission statements on different chiropractic websites.
In critiquing each other's mission statements, the most common bit of encouragement we gave each other was to be a little more specific on how we were to serve our patients. It was interesting to see how each of our missions were different even though we all share the same core values for the most part.
The easiest part in writing the mission statement was writing our individual statements that were tailored to our values. It was somewhat difficult to agree on how to word our mission statements in a manner that everyone would be in agreement and acceptance of its contents.
Mission Statement:
Our primary goal is to serve the citizens of Madison, WI, with chiropractic care to the best of our abilities. We strive to maintain a high quality chiropractic clinic that allows our patients to achieve optimum health and wellness. By instilling knowledge, trust, and confidence in our patients, we strive to inspire our patients to implement family wellness principles through chiropractic care.
Team 26:
ReplyDeleteOur group decided that a vision statement is unique and different from a mission statement. A vision statement is a clear view of where you would like to be as an organization in three years, five years or some undetermined number years in the future, but it must be clear enough that the organization can see it getting closer as time passes.
Our mission statement is geared toward explaining why we exist as a business and what core values govern how we operate. Really the vision statement supports and is part of the mission statement. These two statements should together explain the focus of our business and what we would like to be remembered for, or how we envision ourselves! The virtual strategist on youtube.com gave good advice on how to write these statements effectively. All of us as a whole had to whittle down our initial statements to come to a succinct, effective mission statement. For a few it was difficult to envision where we might be in five years and if our values will have changed.
Our mission is to provide our patients with the highest quality care and information available so that they can make informed decisions and improve their health, quality of life and functional capacity. We will do this by taking care of the team members of our organization and constantly encouraging excellence thereby building a most effective team.
Team 18
ReplyDeleteThe resources we utilized were the ones provided in class and from the NICMIC website, Starting Into Practice.
While critiquing each group member’s statements, we mainly offered advice on grammatical errors, and how to eliminate excessive verbiage. These changes helped make our statements more concise and to the point.
The easy part of this assignment was that we had a basic mission statement from previous business classes from which we built our current mission statements. The most difficult part of this assignment was writing it in third person as it felt somewhat impersonal. One person in the group felt it had less of an impact when written in third person.
Mission statement:
“To provide the community with exceptional care for all patients, young and old. The goal is to increase functionality, reduce discomfort and allow the patients to live a healthy life. To achieve this goal all patients will be treated uniquely with the many different techniques of chiropractic.”
Team 28
ReplyDeleteAlong with the resources provided to us through the course, our team reviewed several private chiropractic practice websites and analzyed their vision and mission statements for differences, similarities, and things that we would like to incorporate in our own statement.
Our group has not been able to fully get in touch with each other so we have not seen every other member's work. But what has been exchanged seemed to be thoughtful statements. I think the vision statements were the hardest to write for us because it made us sit down and think, maybe for the first time, where we want to be in 5 years professionally. So some of the vision statements were a bit generic because I think for some of us, it is still a bit difficult to plan that far ahead. And of course, spelling is always important, but we agreed that we would definitely have it reviewed by an established mentor/chiropractor for revisions.
For both statements, it was hard to be concise and specific to our practice instead of just saying the same thing that every other chiro says. It was easy to find other chiropractic office's mission statements which definitely proved to us the importance of displaying this to our future patients on our websites.
Mission Statement:
"To provide the best and most complete HEALTH care available to the citizens of this and surrounding communities. To strive to not only make patients feel better, but FUNCTION better through a combination of Chiropractic adjustments, active conditioning routines, and nutritional counseling."
Team 30
ReplyDeleteIn addition to the listed resources, we discussed the matter with family/friends who own private businesses, as well as taking some information from entrepreneur.com.
Understanding that there are many different forms of chiropractic available to treat a wide variety of patient populations, we decided it was best to keep the mission statement somewhat vague, while still explaining what we have to offer. Group members helped to narrow the scope of what was discussed in the statement, while not using excessive medical language.
One of the most difficult things about writing a mission statement is narrowing down what is to be included. The statement is understandably supposed to be concise, but there is an urge to try and give too much information about what a chiropractic office is capable of providing. However, it was easy to come up with options of positive influences an office could provide.
Mission Statement:
"To increase the availability of quality health care by providing an affordable and knowledgeable location for the surrounding area in which patients will be diagnosed and properly treated with the most up-to-date evidence based chiropractic care available, or referred to the proper specialist if necessary."
TEAM 16
ReplyDeleteWe used Stephen Covey’s website to help with suggestions in writing a mission statement. We started off by writing a list of ideas as a group to help brainstorm. Dr. Covey suggests that you look up quotes and jot down ideas to assist in writing mission statements that are meaningful to you. We also looked at other chiropractic websites. Some of the websites include:
http://www.broadwaychiropractor.com/missionstatement.php http://www.azchirocare.com/about/missionStatement.html
http://www.bradleychiro.com
We agreed that it was nice to have the mission and vision statements on the home page. Not all the websites did this, but some offered links off the homepage showing where the vision or mission statement was located. The easiest part of writing the mission statement was suggesting ideas; however, the hardest part is linking these thoughts together into a 3-4 sentence paragraph. Every person has their own unique niche or vision as to how they would see their practice in 5 years. Some of us are not even sure where we will be in a year. Our advice to each other is to keep the mission statement as a reflection of you and the business…in other words believe what you write and others will see this.
Mission Statement:
Our mission is to provide our patients with the highest quality of chiropractic care and personal attention, while empowering them to take an active role in owning and managing their own health care. We want to help as many people maintain their health naturally, while keeping the patients best interest in mind. We will continue to educate ourselves in order to give our patients the best care possible. Our goal is to provide our patients with a higher quality of life through total wellness.
This assignment was somewhat of a difficult undertaking, mainly because a vision and/or mission is something that is very difficult to put into words. When you get a vision for what you would like to achieve in the future it can be very extensive, and it can be a challenge to take this larger-than-life idea and narrow it down into a concrete statement. As someone stated above, this should be a living document- as our vision grows and develops these statements should continue to evolve and change.
ReplyDeleteAside from the materials provided for class, we looked through the websites of many chiropractors (most of which do not bother with putting a vision/mission statement on their website), and the websites of various fortune 500 companies. We assumed that for these major corporations to exist and to be successful, they must have a very solid vision/mission, and are effective at relaying this vision to their customers. (plus they probably have very high-paid marketing gurus helping them with their corporate image)
Our mission is to serve the people of the surrounding area with exceptional chiropractic care, helping them to function at their highest potential. We will strive to become a premier provider of health and wellness-related services within our community, and provide unmatched quality and patient care.
Team 2
ReplyDeleteWe reviewed resources from class, interviewed family who own their own clinics, and multiple websites of entrepreneurs to review mission statements. We learned something from each whether it was a positive idea to consider for our own mission or an idea we were not so fond of and wanted to steer away from.
Although we haven't had complete team communication, it seemed that everyone had similar ideas for a mission statement. The biggest obstacle was wordiness. Personally, I was drawn to the concise and to the point missions we researched. I kept reminding myself to portray values and what our clinic has to offer patients when I felt I was dragging sentences on and on.
MISSION:
Our goal is for each and every patient of our clinic to experience complete and individualized healthcare. We achieve this through offering the highest standard of specific chiropractic care with exercise and nutritional guidance.
Team 14:
ReplyDeleteResources used in writing our mission statements include:
www.visiteuropeanspas.com/glossary/
www.ric.org/conditions/arthritis/whatis/index.aspx
Also we visited multiple chiropractors sites to get a feel for what we felt was most in congruency with our thoughts.
Another exercise we felt helpful was choosing certain words we felt were powerful and explanatory for our chiropractic practice and tried to use those in a way that flowed together nicely.
In critiquing the team's mission statements I advised them to take a second look at certain terminology that I felt may not be well understood to patients/potential patients. It's good to have a concise and simple mission statement that doesn't include to many Chiropractic terms that aren't well understood by the average person. Once you get them to be patients, then you may elaborate on your own personal statement. There are many terms that are more easily understood and can be used instead that are still in conjunction with philosophy, science and art of Chiropractic.
Mission statement:
The mission of our clinic is to help patients of all ages achieve their optimal level of health and wellness. Our goal is to provide the highest standard of health care based on the unique needs of each individual patient and their families through Chiropractic care and educational experiences.
Team 4 (Mary, Beau, Megan, Tara, Sarah)
ReplyDeleteWriting your mission and vision statement seems like a simple enough task since it's based on your personal goals, values and beliefs; but unless you're a seasoned writer, trying to articulate your thought and ideas on paper is more difficult than you might expect! I used a "trick" I learned from a seminar I attended in 5(ish) tri to create my mission and vision statement.
Since both the mission and vision statements are based on your personal beliefs here is a great way to turn your ideas into adjectives...
-Divide a piece of blank paper into 6 sections. At the top of each section you write these themes:
Section 1. Favorite movie
" 2. Favorite person
" 3. Favorite animal/pet
" 4. Favorite place
" 5. Favorite nonfiction book
" 6. Favorite fiction book
-Next step- think of your very favorite of each and write it down below that section.
-Now, under each "favorite thing" you wrote down now write at least 3 words that describe your fav person, place, book, animal etc.
When you're done you'll have a list of descriptive words you value most. Now the rest is easy... just sprinkle in those adjectives between a few chiropractic nouns and you've got a great vision/mission statement.
After reading my team members mission/vision statements the advise I would give is keep it succinct and to the point. If someone loses interest before they read the end of your mission statement, it's a good sign that they will lose interest when you're treating them too.
As I mentioned before, the most difficult part about writing these two things is getting putting your pen to paper and Turing your thoughts and ideas into words.
My Mission: To provide exceptional care to help maintain your well-being.
For this assignment we started off by looking at a number of different chiropractic websites and comparing their mission statements to see some of the similarities and differences. We then used a number of different business websites to get a better definition and more examples of a mission and vision statement.
ReplyDeleteThe critiques we had were mostly grammatical corrections, or rewording the phrases to make them sound or read easier.
The easiest part of this assignment was the research and picking out where we wanted to be in five years. The hardest part was making the vision and mission statements short enough and specific enough to describe our goals.
Mission Statement: “To provide quality health care based on the most current research available and our clinical expertise which will allow us to better serve our patients so that they may improve their overall quality of life whether they are at home, work, or in play.”