Identity Crisis?
September 7th, 2009 by angiemeyerdc | Filed under Chiropractic Coaching, Chiropractic Wellness Practice, communication, Leadership.
We hear again and again that our profession has an identity crisis, but from our perspective, we have a communication crisis!
What chiropractors know (no matter if they practice in a pain-based model or a wellness-based model) is that we help people have better lives! We’ve surveyed hundreds and hundreds of chiropractors around the world, and no matter how they practice, they all recognize that we can not only help people with their pain and symptoms, but also with improved function and a better quality of life!
Our problem as a profession is that the message that we’ve communicated and marketed to the public isn’t unified or clear. Not like the tequila marketing sign above. The public thinks that we help with neck and back pain and we know we help people get healthy and stay healthy to essentially have a better life!
As a profession, what we’ve been doing for communicating the chiropractic message isn’t working. Otherwise, at this 114th birthday of chiropractic, we’d be seeing more than 8-10% of the population. If people understood what we do, because our communication and marketing was working, we’d be a lot further along right now.
If you are interested in finding out more about how to communicate in a true wellness model, in a care vs. scare approach, we encourage you to check out our LAASR program and seek out the support of a coach. Lecturing and telling people until you’re blue in the face isn’t working. We need to figure out what people really want and then show them how to get it. Let’s find a better way and start to move our profession into the position of leadership in the wellness revolution we deserve.
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