The Operating Leverage Concept: Why It's VERY Relevant to Physicians & How to Get it to Work in Your Favor

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the context of business, operating leverage dictates the health and value of a company. As physicians, we can use this concept to evaluate what we get out of our jobs, and make sure it’s giving us more than it takes from us. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If our jobs deplete us so much that we end up running on empty, it’s time to dig into the operating leverage of daily work, and consider some micro-negotiations that can make it better. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How do we calculate our own operating leverage? If our job is taking more than it’s giving us, what changes can we make? In this episode, I talk about how we can get the operating leverage equation to work in our favor. </span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><strong>Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode </strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>- The ideal work environment for physicians </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What factors make a job somewhere we can actually thrive, not just break even in terms of our energy?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>- Signs that our jobs are draining our energy in an unhealthy way</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How can we accurately pinpoint those bane-of-existence tasks that deplete our energy? </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>- How to change your mindset about a draining task </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If a task at work is depleting more energy than we’d like and we can’t opt out of it, how do we shift our mindset?</span></p>