Preparing Your Team for Your Absence: Lessons from CEO Jeff Salter's 9500-Mile Bike Ride

[3792] Preparing Your Team for Your Absence: Lessons from CEO Jeff Salter's 9500-Mile Bike Ride
Learn from their successes and mistakes to better prepare your team for any length of time away.

Presentation Info:

• TAHC&H Event 54th Annual Meeting | Rich-Media Presentation Capture | Online On-Demand Access
• Presentation Date | August 31, 2023

Program Description: Does your business feel like it has you in shackles? Can't get away for a weekend? How about 4 months out of the office? During this session you will hear from Jeff Salter, CEO and Ian Klaes, VP of Caring Senior Service on how a 53 location system was able to thrive while the founder went on a 4 month, 9500 mile bike ride around the country. While Ian called it Jeff's "Vacation", Jeff was riding 8-10 hours every day while camping out most nights on the road to raise funds and awareness to the needs of seniors. Hear from both Jeff and Ian on their experiences, including Jeff's rigorous daily routine and Ian's challenges of managing the business in Jeff's absence. Learn from their successes and mistakes to better prepare your team for any length of time away.

HCSSA Topic(s) Addressed:

• §558.259[d][4]agency responsibilities
• §558.260[a][2]development and interpretation of agency policies
• §558.260[a][3]basic principles of management in a licensed health-related setting

Education-Training Credits:

• TX HCSSA Administrator/Alternate Continuing Education
• 1.0 Clock Hr(s)

TAHC&H Faculty/Presenter(s): Jeff Salter, CEO, Caring Senior Services

About the Presenter(s): Jeff Salter began his career in senior care in 1991 working for a home health care agency in Odessa, TX. He started his own company 4 months later serving seniors that needed additional non-medical care to remain at home. Jeff expanded the business to include other locations in Texas - Midland, McAllen, Corpus Christi, San Antonio and Austin. After operating for 12 years he began offering franchises in 2003, and today Caring Senior Services is in 20 states with over 50 locations. Jeff’s company continues to add locations through addition of franchises and corporate locations, and his existing offices benefit from focused efforts in marketing and sales. Caring Senior Service was named one of the top 500 franchises in the United States, by the Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500 as well as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States as named by Inc. Magazine.

[3792] Preparing Your Team for Your Absence: Lessons from CEO Jeff Salter's 9500-Mile Bike Ride