Old and New Ways to Use Positiion Descriptions and Why It Matters

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Issue: July/August 2021

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Position descriptions (PDs) are one of those accountability documents that too often lay dormant on the shelf. You may ask yourself why you need to bother with writing it down. You already know what each job involves, right? But that has become an antiquated way of thinking. Here’s a new way to think about position descriptions and how each one can be helpful.

About the Authors

Corinne Z. Wohl, MHSA, COE

(609-410- 2932; czwohl@gmail.com), is president of C. Wohl & Associates, Inc., a practice management consulting firm. Her latest book, co-authored with John Pinto, is UP: Taking Ophthalmic Administrators and Their Management Teams to the Next Level of Skill, Performance, and Career Satisfaction, and is available from the author.

John Pinto

(pintoinc@aol.com; 619-223-2233) is president of J. Pinto & Associates, Inc., an ophthalmic practice management consulting firm in San Diego. His latest books, Simple: The Inner Game of Ophthalmic Practice Success and the sixth edition of John Pinto’s Little Green Book of Ophthalmology are available from the author.