Dr Rick Goodman
B.S., D.C. Csp
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Dr Rick Goodman Motivational Keynote Speaker on Leadership Healthcare and Customer Service Expert
Dr Rick Goodman Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Leadership, Team Building, Customer Service, Healthcare
- Best Sellers
- The Solutions Oriented Leader,Living A Championship Life "A Game plan for Success"
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Consultant, Coach
- Affiliation
- National Speakers Association, Florida Speakers Association, International Federation for Professional Speakers
The Speaker
Dr. Rick Goodman, CSP, is renowned as one of the most sought-after leadership and engagement experts in the world today. His keynote presentations and breakout sessions have produced transformational results leading to engaged employees, increased productivity and, most importantly, HIGHER PROFITS.
Dr. Rick has the distinction of delivering over 1,000 presentations in all 50 states and 16 countries. He earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation which is the speaker profession’s international measure of speaking experience and skill. Fewer than one percent of all professional speakers worldwide hold this designation.
The Author
In addition to his 30-year speaking career, Dr. Rick is the author of three books: “Living a Championship Life – A Game Plan for Success,” a book combining his success philosophy with stories compiled during his tenure as one of the team physicians for the Super Bowl champio St. Louis Rams and the St. Louis Ambush professional indoor soccer team; “My Team Sucked: Ten Rules That Turned Them Into Rock Stars A Small Book with Big Solutions” on leadership, engagement and business growth; and his latest book “The Solutions-Oriented Leader: Your Comprehensive Guide to Achieve World-Class Results
Dr. Rick’s writing style integrates real-life stories with innovative and engaging solutions to real-world challenges. His articles are a favorite with national publications and corporate/ association newsletters. His books, CDs, DVDs, online learning and virtual presentations are all designed for achievers who want to grow and implement a system that fosters great leadership!
The Entrepreneur
Dr. Rick is a successful entrepreneur who walks his talk and shares his winning philosophy with his audiences. 1988, he created and sold one of the largest medical practices in Missouri. That same year, Dr. Rick founded a new enterprise that is still active today. His goal is to introduce his leadership and team building formulas and systems into 10,000 businesses worldwide.
In March 2000, Dr. Rick became Vice President of Neurology Associates Group, and, in just three years, grew the franchise from two facilities to 13, with more than 100 employees and revenues in the millions. Then, in 2002, Dr. Rick also founded Advantage Continuing Education Seminars (ACES), which has become one of the fastest-growing continuing education companies in its field, providing programs in seven distinct categories, including legal, accounting, human resources, medical, construction, sales and marketing, and customer service.
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10 Steps for Taking Advantage of Technology to Grow Your Practice
It is more important than ever before that our businesses embrace technology if we want to grow during this down economic time. Many business owners and corporations look for that one key idea or system that's going to take their business to the next level. However, it's been my experience that it is never one system, idea, or technique that does the does the trick it's generally a combination of multiple ideas. In our business we use a combination of social networking, marketing and expert positioning to grow our business.
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Check Back Your Key to Delegation Success!
In order to grow your business, you're going to have to trust that your staff members are capable of getting the job's done that you assign to them. That means you're going to have to do something that may be uncomfortable for some of you and easy for others.
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How to Create a Successful Team
The quality of your office is going to be determined by the quality of the team that assists you in providing health care to your patients. There are a number of things that you can do in order to build and strengthen your health care team. People do business with people who they like, who are like them. It is important that we understand this concept and even more important than ever before, that there is a positive chemistry among your staff members. The more your staff members enjoy working with each other, the better care and empathy your patients will receive.
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Patient Communication That Works and Builds Your Practice
Have you ever had a patient that sits through a whole report of findings and looks at you with the deer in the headlights look? It's obvious that they don't really understand the treatment program that has been implemented and your communication is off target.
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The Keys to Creating a More Productive Practice
It was once said, that “Quality is never an accident: it is the result of higher intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alte atives”.
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Striving for Excellence: “What We Do and the People We Touch”
As healthcare providers few people understand what we do and the people whose lives we touch including ourselves. If we are striving for excellence as providers our own personal issues become less important and something magical suddenly happens. We find out that we have the ability to change someone’s life and touch them if for only a brief period of time. This is what separates us from all humanity.
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You Can Only Be Replaced If You Let It Happen!
It was 1994 when the papers were delivered to my apartment; I had just joined the ranks of 50% of the population when my wife filed for divorce. As a single father my biggest fear was that someone would come in to my ex-wife's life and that person would eventually replace me as the figurehead and father in the life of my two young children who were five and one at the time.
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You Have the Ability to Choose
I recently received an e-mail from a friend of mine regarding choices specifically a person's ability to choose their own attitude of mind and how one can look at any situation either positively or negatively and its direct effect on the outcome of that particular situation. Even though we may not believe it we all have the ability to choose and make decisions, even though we may not like the choices presented.
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When You Fall off the Horse Don’t Lose Your Blackberry: Five Steps for Excelling in Tough Times
It was a beautiful day in Costa Rica, the sun was shining and I was on the back of a beautiful horse named Diablo. I had been horseback riding numerous times before with no problems, so I wasn’t prepared for what would happen next. As Diablo and I hit full stride galloping across an open pasture between two majestic mountain peaks, Diablo stepped into a hole and I suddenly found myself tumbling to the ground along with the horse. Wincing in pain, my shoulder separated and rib cracked I looked at Diablo. He was lying on the ground bleeding from the nose.
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The Telephone: Your First Impression for Success
People form opinions and make judgments about us in the first 60 seconds of a meeting or when speaking with us on the phone. Statistics indicate that 87% of people's opinions are formed based on the tone of our voice while only 13% is based on the actual words we use. The 500 most frequent use words in the English language have 14,000 meanings depending on how they are used. So what does this all mean to your office and the success that you're going to have with your clients? Everything!
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Quality Staff Equals Productive Practice!
It's been my experience and the experience of thousands of doctors around the world who understand that a high quality staff can affect the ultimate outcome of their patients response to treatment. I have found that many times the patients will share their experiences with the staff when they feel uncomfortable sharing them with the doctor. One of the most common questions I get from physicians is; How do we find quality staff members, who will care about our patients?
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When Social Media Collides!
If you’re like me and millions of people around the world who are using social media you probably discover that your world has just gotten much smaller. Just the other day I was writing an article on my favorite site jobing.com. The article that I wrote was titled “When You Fall off the Horse Don’t Lose Your Blackberry".
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Dr Rick Goodman
Leaders motivate and inspire-they relentlessly create the vision and said strategies for ACTION. Their ultimate gift is not to have followers, but to develop many other leaders.
-Dr. Rick Goodman
Contacting Dr Rick Goodman
Dr. Rick Goodman is a professional speaker and President of S.T.A.Consulting Inc. he works with organizations that want to Develop Great Leaders "Through Excellence in Communication and Team Work". For more information on Rick’s Speaking programs, Consulting Programs and Training programs contact (888) 267-6098 or Rick@rickgoodman.com (www.rickgoodman.com)
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Dr. Rick Goodman is an author, consultant, and professional speaker who works with organizations and leaders that want great results. For more information on Rick’s keynote speaking programs, audio programs and training programs go to www.RickGoodman.com or call 888-267-6098