If you were being completely honest with yourself about your dental practice, you would likely rate your office as being a good office who delivers great care to patients. There is an imbalance in that statement in that you want to be a great office delivering great care to your patients. Here are some suggestions …
Have you ever thought that your day could have been easier and run more smoothly? A good day doesn’t just happen, it isn’t because all of your happy and relaxed patients come in one day and all of your anxious and grumpy patients come in another. Planning your schedule takes a calculated effort, offices who …
Over the last sixteen months, you have probably heard from your patients over and over that they were so happy to have an excuse to leave their homes even if it was for a dental appointment. Patient’s personal schedules are starting fill again with social commitments, working for home is morphing into a different model, …
Now that we are starting to hit some sweet spots on the numbers of vaccines being given there is certainly a sense of freedom and a relaxation of some of the protocols that have been put in place in our society. Does this mean that some of the protocols will be relaxed in dental offices …
How do you even know if the systems in your office are working or not? Of course, you are getting through each day with the systems you have in place, so they are working right? Is your office running like a 2021 Ferrari roaring through each day or do you feel that you are always …
Do you wonder why some of your days flow better than other days? It could have been because all of your “nice” patients were in and the delivery of care was easy. It could have been that you slept well the night before and you were in a good mood. Although more likely, it was …
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Operating rooms and surgeons are famous for their protocols and checklists to ensure that no detail is every overlooked. In the dental industry we can apply some of these same principles to ensure that our days run as we intend them to. We all know that repetition of the same action in the same order …
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When looking at our practices we very often get caught up in the little details and forget sometimes to take an overall inventory of how we are doing with the Five Pillars of our Practice Foundation. Taking an inventory of these five systems may provide you with a different view of where you need to …
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It doesn’t matter if you call it feedback, constructive criticism or being honest, the delivery verbiage can make a difference to how it is accepted and then applied to the specific task. There are many schools of thought on methods and verbiage for delivering feedback (my favorite word for it.) Having systems in place to …
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When we don’t see the desired or expected results, we very often make excuses. We learned this behavior as a fallback from a very young age when we couldn’t hand in our homework because the dog ate it! In your office now you may hear the same type of excuses over and over again. When …
3 Excuses that Will Halt Your Practice’s Success (& how to respond)! Read More »
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