by Karah Karah | Dec 20, 2015 | Legendary Leadership
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Quotes & Notes:
- Team management and hiring are in general very stressful for dentists. You always hear “oh if it weren’t for the employees…” I feel that the problem is that we don’t create systems to make it successful. People don’t fail, systems fail.
- Creating an amazing culture is critical, and it is actually a system.
- If you want people to rally around a cause you have to give them a cause worthy of rallying around.
Hiring is a group sport in my practice, I look for chemistry. It’s important that we all like each other.
- Starbucks is a great place for an interview because you want to make this interview as natural as possible.
- One of the things that we do is in the end we always ask the same question, “If you were hired, who else in this room would you want to see hired as well?” This is how the leaders stand out.
- We try to invite about ten people at a time (to the interview process). Six or seven people come in and that creates a good room dynamic.
- When you are very clear on what you want, you sort of already know who the right person is. And yes, you make mistakes but it is a lot like dating.
I don’t make decisions in hiring, the team does. People support what they help create.
- As long as there are people sharing, everyone who wants to be successful has to be like a sponge and to really take on all of those great ideas.
If you would like to learn more from Dr. Gina Dorfman you can go to her website yapicentral.com or email her at [email protected]. You can also find her in dental town.
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by Karah Karah | Nov 20, 2015 | Legendary Leadership
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Quotes & Notes:
- I just have a philosophy that I think that when people feel like, “wow it’s already next year,” that they are not being present in their life and they are not moving forward in all of the areas of their life.
Leadership is believing in people more than they believe in themselves.
- Whenever we want to communicate something that has some emotion tied to it, we really want to make sure we are doing that in person because our tonality and physiology speak volumes.
Qualities of a great leader: beliefs, optimism, courage, preparation, teamwork, communication, willingness to make decisions, and doing the right thing.
- We do want to empower our team members to make great decisions because when people feel autonomous and they feel like they are empowered, they can do amazing things.
- You need to know how each team member needs to feel appreciated and what they need and what their next level looks like for their career.
- The six areas of life mastery are your emotional life, your physical body, your financial mastery, your purpose/career, your spirituality/contribution, and your relationships.
- It’s about making micro-changes and you continue to make more and more micro changes and overtime it will make a difference.
- Get into the habit of writing down three things that you are grateful for every single day. But they really have to be different things because if you just think about the same three things then you are just stuck in those same three things. If you really force yourself to think about what you are grateful for then it makes your brain open up for “what else can I be grateful for?”
If you would like to learn more from Kim McGuire you can go to her website, www.fortunemgmt.com, or email her at [email protected] and also be sure to check out her podcast, the Fortune Management Practice Mastery Podcast which releases every couple of weeks.
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by Karah Karah | Oct 25, 2015 | Legendary Leadership
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Quotes & Notes:
- “If everything seems under control, you are just not going fast enough,” Mario Andretti.
- I don’t know if coming from Russia you really want something of your own, but I really wanted to run a business and dentistry seemed like a good fit.
It doesn’t matter how many hours we spend on each activity, it’s not how much time you spend with your kids versus our work, it is how present you are whenever you do the thing you do.
- When I graduated from school I realized I really did not have enough clinical skills, and eventually, I found Dentaltown and I learned how to do dentistry on Dentaltown.
- People around you will either bring you up or bring you down. If you want to be successful you have to surround yourself with successful people.
- I’ve had many failures, I’ve had many punches and what do you do? You roll with the punches, you live with that.
- A happy person is able to accomplish more and become more successful.
- We (women in the profession) have to get rid of that guilt. Our kids need successful mothers. It’s ok to let your kids be a little bit more independent of you.
- What we have done [with YAPI] is solve problems that just about every office struggles with. We build the software around what we thought was the best way.
If you would like to learn more from Dr. Gina Dorfman or YAPI, you can find her at Dentaltown, email her at [email protected], or visit her website yapicentral.com.
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by Karah Karah | Mar 1, 2014 | Bold Biographies, Legendary Leadership
Quotes and notes:
- If our practices do better we can really focus on helping others.
- Identify what your patients need and give it to them better than anyone else can.
- If it has been done before, it is possible.
- If you have a vision and you actually get there the same way you thought you would . . . it wasn’t big enough. – Richard Branson
- I would hire a farm kid over anybody if I had the choice.
- You are never going to regret working hard for what you get.
- I fell in love with marketing when I opened the satellite practice.
- Joe Polish was a great mentor of mine: http://ilovemarketing.com/
- Kids are a great motivator.
- I made a commitment to doing dentistry part-time and working on the business full-time.
- We’ve morphed throughout time to be manager-free.
- If you have a problem bring me 3 solutions, one of which is free.
- A lot of times we stop just short of success.
- My faith keeps me from being afraid of a lot.
- Have a lot of faith in yourself…Take positive steps everyday.
- Keep really focused on the most important things. Engage your team to help you do that.
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Dr. Mohan’s Practice: Plaza Dental Group
Dr. Mohan a faculty member of Six Month Smiles and OsteoReady.
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by Karah Karah | Jan 26, 2014 | Legendary Leadership, Magnificent Marketing
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Notes & Quotes:
- In this day and age, we can’t afford to not network . . . it’s critical for the advancement of our careers
Coffee, lunch, coffee came from the way I structured my days.- We don’t understand the real value of human connections.
- My definition of networking is really creating mutually beneficial, long-term relationships without a predetermined outcome in mind.
- Connections + community + belonging = networking
- It feels good to help people solve the problems that they are facing.
- There’s a sense of gratitude and meaning in those connections.
- Your success depends on building these relationships.
- Meaningful connections means really understanding what drives and motivates another person.
- This is not about transactional relationships.
- Be the best version of yourself wherever you are.
- Always say yes! . . . go in with a “yes” attitude.
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by Karah Karah | Oct 29, 2013 | Legendary Leadership
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Quotes & Notes:
- “It’s about lifting other people up.”
- “You’re obligated to do everything you can to learn what it means to become a leader.”
- “Assume the accountability of the success and particularly the failures of that organization.”
- “…this is a lifelong process that never ends.”
- “Every interaction with a human being is an opportunity for leadership and growth.”
- “How good are they at being a leader and handling the gray areas?”
- “Real leaders understand the emotional intelligence side…”
- “People want to be part of the solution.”
- “Confidence is the core of a natural charisma.”
- “The less confidence you have, the faster you give up trying.”
- Confidence killers: Low self-image; fear; worrying about other people’s opinion of you
- “Fear is a necessary requirement of courage.”
- “The uncertainty of the future never goes away.”
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