by [email protected] | Feb 22, 2023 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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As dental practice owners, we can gain insight from Jobs’ approach to forming teams and steering them to success. He was a master at bringing together and managing groups that could bring his ideas to fruition. He held that the best items were produced by design experts, engineers, and marketers who worked together and had the same objectives.
We’ll examine how those of us in the dental industry can utilize Jobs’ lessons on teamwork in our practice. We’ll also go over some of the missteps to avoid, and discuss how to cultivate a constructive, considerate work environment where your team can shine.
In this episode, I discuss why single-location dental practice owners should take wisdom from a $2.413 Trillion company.
- So if you want to anticipate patient needs and deliver personalized care. . .
- If you want to be a dentist who sees things differently. . .
- If you want to create an extraordinary brand that separates you from other dental practices so that you can have the cash flow and lifestyle you’re proud of…
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Key Quotes:
- “Everything that you do should be focused on creating an exceptional experience. It’s how you differentiate. It’s how you decommoditize. It’s how you get out of some of these crummy insurance networks that are insulting you with their reimbursements.”
- “By creating products that are simple, elegant, and easy to use, Jobs was able to create technology that truly enhanced people’s lives.”
- “We really want the brand to create trust and relationships before we have a chance to interact with these patients.”
- “Our job is to hire the best team we can find and then invest in their training and development.”
- “One of the keys to Job’s success as a communicator was the ability to distill very, very complex ideas into simple concepts that anyone could understand.”
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by [email protected] | Feb 15, 2023 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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As dental practice owners, we understand that people don’t always verbalize any worries they may have regarding their treatments. But ignoring these objections can result in adverse effects for both the patient and the practice. It is therefore essential to put in place tactics to tackle patient objections before they emerge.
Not only will this raise your acceptance rate of cases, but it will also assist in strengthening trust with your patients and illustrate your dedication to their overall health.
In this episode, we will examine some of the most efficient methods for confronting patient objections and examine how you can become a more understanding and transparent dental practitioner.
Hey Doc, how good is your team at generating high-trust case acceptance?
- If you want to make case acceptance easy….
- If you want to avoid feeling pushy or manipulative…
- If you want to have patients say yes to the care you present so that you can focus on your clinical skills…
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Check out our New Case Study, “Discover How To Recession-Proof Your Dental Practice In The Next 60 Days So That You Increase Profits & Avoid Losing Key Team Members” now at: http://thenorecessiondentist.com/casestudy.
Key Quotes:
- “Make sure that you let them [patients] know the cost of waiting, which will always outweigh the cost of doing it now.”
- “What goes in here mostly is empathy. If they know that you are kind, if they know that you care, if they know that the team is built around this empathetic state, if you give them some semblance of control, then that will put them at ease.”
- “If you don’t address the time commitment, then once the treatment plan comes in and the money part comes in and they realize it’s gonna take five appointments or whatever it is, in a more complex case that may break it.”
- “We don’t want to overstate the situation, but I think sometimes we trivialize it and then we wonder why the patient doesn’t move forward with treatment.”
- “In a low-trust world, if you can kind of read their mind and have the conversation before they bring it up before they object, I think your patient experience, your positive word of mouth, your referrals, and your case acceptance will all keep trending upward in a difficult economic time.”
- “We’re not chasing dollars here, we’re just doing what’s right and we’re being masterful in our communication, coming from a place of care and compassion, but also assertiveness.”
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by [email protected] | Feb 8, 2023 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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Many people working in dental don’t have the experience of working in a healthy team dynamic—and that’s a problem. If you don’t set high standards, you may stay stuck in the status quo—which, if you’ve experienced any customer service in the past couple of weeks, you know is getting worse.
Enhancing your skills as a dental team builder has never been more important.
- Doc, if you want to enjoy being around a productive, unified team…
- If you want to put an end to team turnover and feeling short-staffed…
- If you’re ready to embrace the experience economy so you can win at a game of practice ownership, tune in now!
Rate yourself honestly on these seven habits of high-performance dental teams, and devise a plan to do better in that area. It’s time to make a change!
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Don’t tackle dental practice ownership on your own – take advantage of the expertise at the Dental Startup Masterclass! This two-day event in Houston, TX on March 9 and 10 will show you how to evaluate contractors, cut costs on equipment and IT, formulate budgets, come up with efficient floor plans, and much more. Receive the counsel and insight you need to make your practice thrive.
Key Quotes:
- “The big competitive advantage right now is assembling and unifying a team.”
- “Your team understands the power of team building and they help you unify the team. If you try and go this alone, this is gonna be a high-resistance upward truck for you.”
- “You can have somebody on your team that’s hyper-focused on the patient experience because quite frankly, as you go about your day, you don’t have much time for that. But as the owner, you’ll likely need to be the employee experience officer. And it’s a valuable use of your time.”
- “You can’t fake compassion and you can’t fake connection. These have to be real things that your culture is all about and you reward it when you see it.”
- “Oftentimes we get so focused on productivity that we forget creativity. Productivity is getting it done, creativity is getting it right.”
- “You should hire and fire based on values.”
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by [email protected] | Feb 1, 2023 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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Are you a dentist that’s feeling overwhelmed and overstressed? In this practice, we understand and regularly discuss the reasons why dentists experience high levels of stress. But what if there was a way to find a more productive and happier state? That’s where the concept of “flow states” comes into play. It’s a mysterious idea that is backed by science, rule books, and recipes to help you get in “the zone” more often. Let’s explore what’s behind elite dentist performance and how you can use it to increase your practice’s success.
In this episode, I discuss why dental practice owners should get in “the zone” more often.
- So if you want to find more enjoyment and productivity in your workdays…
- If you want to engineer your ideal challenge-to-skill ratio…
- If you want to utilize an anti-aging and career-extending strategy so you can feel supremely confident at work, tune in now!
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Key Quotes:
- “My challenge to you would be how do you make sure that that patient in front of you, your next patient, feels like they’re the only patient on the schedule? And that will require some help from your team to build out that philosophy and culture.”
- “A flow state is, is a very, very, very powerful phenomenon and enhances your productivity and overall well-being. And I think that dentists can benefit from this by finding more ways to spend more time in flow states.”
- “Sometimes as dentists, because we work so hard, we do this game that I call “hardaholic” that I’ve mastered. We make things hard that don’t need to be hard, we increase the toil because we have the story in our head that if there’s no pain, there’s no gain and I want gain, therefore I must induce pain.”
- “We want to take things from theory to practice to mastery. If you’re doing a very mundane thing like a crown prep that you’ve done hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times, my suggestion would be more meticulous or set an efficiency goal that encourages you to do that same quality high standard work in less time.”
- “We want to as humans make sure that our best work and our best days are always in front of us.”
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by [email protected] | Jan 25, 2023 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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As a practice owner, you should balance your professional life with your practice’s profitability. You must explore the importance of maintaining a clear vision to get the most out of your career. But in navigating the current confusing landscape, you need valuable insights on taking your practice to the next level.
Doc, are you looking for some mental models that enhance your practice profitability? I hope you know you deserve to take home money and enjoy more time outside the office.
In this episode, I discuss why you should ignore most of the advice from people who haven’t been in your shoes as a practice owner and challenge traditional thinking to get the most out of your career.
If you want to find professional activities that give you energy and compensate you well, tune in now!
Listen in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
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Key Quotes:
- “The amount of energy that it takes to be a highly productive dentist aside from the business is immense.”
- “We need systems that simplify our business and mental models that free up our minds to be creative and resourceful.”
- “Many things traditionally would’ve been done inside of the practice that now can be done outside of the practice. And some things have always been done by people outside of the practice that maybe you need to get off your plate.”
- “Never compromise on vision because if you do, you might get a short-term upgrade in pay and cash flow, but it won’t have the longevity because it’s not organic to you.”
- “The more you become of value, the more money you take in in terms of cash flow.”
- “The way that you can minimize your costs without focusing on every little fraction of a percent is to focus on optimizing investments.”
- “What we want to create is a wise flow of dollars. Not stagnation, not accumulation.”
- “Become a habit addict and take some of these menial tasks and make it like riding a bike. And then what’s the next tab and then what’s the next system? And then what’s the next protocol?”
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by [email protected] | Jan 18, 2023 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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The misconception that influence is something you either possess or lack can lead to feelings of being overlooked and denied. However, influence is a skill that can be developed and used in combination with your clinical expertise to drive successful case acceptance and patient referrals.
Today, let’s talk about overcoming the challenges of failed case acceptance, lack of patient referrals, and negative reviews by embracing the power of influence.
Dentists: do you ever feel like your patients are ignoring you?
- If you want to become the most referable dentist around…
- If you want to start bigger cases…
- If you want to know who your patients want to give their business to so that you can make it easy for them to say YES!
Tune in now!
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Key Quotes:
- “I feel like our industry needs a more robust discussion about people’s problems. That’s the heart of what’s going on now because people are getting more and more complex, and I think there needs to be a place for meaningful discussion to solve these.”
- “Influence is really a skill. And if you can appreciate that, it’s a skill of being able to cause change, then you can develop it as a skill and use it synergistically with the clinical skills that you have developed and are continuing to develop.”
- “It’s a great dichotomy of leadership and influences that you increase your power by reducing it.”
- “The better that we are at creating a great experience in delivering clinical excellence, the more we receive as a team.”
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by [email protected] | Jan 11, 2023 | Prescriptions for your Practice, Uncategorized
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Having a successful dental practice is more than just having a great team. It is also about having the appropriate leadership and management strategies in place. Unfortunately, many dental practices suffer from low morale, high turnover rates, and decreased profits because of ineffective management.
Leadership and management are two different things – and when dental practice owners rely too heavily on traditional management techniques, it leads to low morale, productivity, and loyalty. As a result, it can take away from the practice’s overall success and the dental practice owner’s paycheck.
In this episode, I discuss catastrophic management mistakes dentists make.
- So if you want to prevent team turnover and poor morale…
- If you want to find more fulfillment AND profits in your dental practice…
- If you want to understand why the way we work isn’t working so you can surround yourself with the best team imaginable…
Tune in now!
Listen in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
Check out our New Case Study, “Discover How To Recession-Proof Your Dental Practice In The Next 60 Days So That You Increase Profits & Avoid Losing Key Team Members” now at: http://thenorecessiondentist.com/casestudy.
Key Quotes:
- “Human beings are meant to strive. We’re not supposed to be in a tensionless state, and I hate that achievement-oriented people are considered radicals.”
- “I think there are certainly better ways to go about goal achievement than using resolutions. Nonetheless, I think every year should, you should have a determination that this year is going to be your best and you’ll learn skills and mindsets that allow next year to be your best.”
- “Let’s appreciate that at the heart of this great resignation, we can blame it on a generation of people that don’t wanna work. I don’t think that’s true. I think it’s more about there being a lot of workplaces that suck.”
- “Leaders create more leaders. Managers are about authority.”
- “A leader allows the vision and the values to be the boss and to guide the behavioral standard. A manager will believe that if everyone colors inside their lines and follows the script, then we’ll be just fine.”
- “In the real world, not everything goes as planned even when we are trained properly when prepared properly, and we have the best of intentions.”
- “You as a leader still have to get what you need. We have to make sure that we are creating an environment that brings out the best in us, so we can’t just sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice.”
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by [email protected] | Jan 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
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Are you tired of struggling to grow your dental practice in a challenging economy? Do you want to finally find the path to profits and understand what’s been holding you back from achieving your goals? It’s time to take control and elevate your practice owner’s confidence in 2023. In this episode, learn how to enjoy BIG practice growth and overcome any obstacle that stands in your way.
Dental practice owners: Do you want to take your “impossible” and make it easy?
- If you want to enjoy BIG practice growth in a challenging economy…
- If you want to find the path that brings you the most profits and competitive advantages…
- If you want to understand what keeps you from getting what you want year after year so you can elevate your practice owner confidence in 2023…
Tune in now!
It’s time to set your sights high and take your dental practice to the next level. Success is just around the corner!
Listen in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
Check out our New Case Study, “Discover How To Recession-Proof Your Dental Practice In The Next 60 Days So That You Increase Profits & Avoid Losing Key Team Members” now at: http://thenorecessiondentist.com/casestudy.
Key Quotes:
- “When you think of the challenge, think of a high-growth opportunity and lean into it.”
- “Mastery takes time — there’s a maturation process.”
- “Confidence comes from a commitment to mastery. Commitment is 100% word. If you’re 98% committed, you ain’t committed.”
- “Mastery is a pursuit of practice until it becomes automatic. And once it becomes ritualized and automatic, your mind and body connect and allow you to focus on the bigger picture.”
- “Each of us is a one-of-a-kind phenomenon, and your path will be unique. So be courageous and defiant of the right way.”
- “If you’re always on a mastery path and you’re always learning, the learning creates the skills, the skills create the value, the value creates income, and you can continue to compound this as time goes on.”
- “If you know where you are and where you want to go, the first pathway may not work. The second one may not work, but you try multiple pathways until you get to where you need to go.”
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by [email protected] | Dec 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
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“We are what we repeatedly do… therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit.” — Will Durant
Habits are a powerful influence that affects our actions and outcomes. If you’re passionate about habits, you understand how important it is to form positive habits that lead to success. However, even if you are not habit-obsessed, developing a habit-based leadership philosophy can have a significant impact on you, your team, and patient care. Focusing on the habits that need to be stopped, sustained, and started can result in improved results in many aspects of life, like profitability, productivity, and patient care. Welcome to the world of habit-based leadership – let’s explore the potential it holds!
In this episode, I discuss the minuscule habits that lead to a massive impact.
- So if you want to build the two critical habits that enhance your team’s morale and productivity…
- If you want to capitalize on habits that create. an unfair advantage for your dental practice…
- If you want to grow your leadership skills and confidence so you can make 2023 your most profitable, enjoyable year yet…
Tune in now!
Listen in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
Check out our New Case Study, “Discover How To Recession-Proof Your Dental Practice In The Next 60 Days So That You Increase Profits & Avoid Losing Key Team Members” now at: http://thenorecessiondentist.com/casestudy.
Key Quotes:
- “Working harder isn’t working.”
- “There’s a time and a place to make sure that we’re working very smart as well.”
- “Leadership and practice potential is a reflection of your habits.”
- “The payoff of new habit installation is always delayed.”
- “The thing that you are most committed to, the thing that I’m most committed to is our identity, and confidence elevates that identity.”
- “Make sure that you’re working on productive habits and building your confidence simultaneously because they’ll start to synergize.”
- “An innovation habit and a communication habit turn your team’s frustration into the raw material for growth and reduced stress.”
- “Make sure that you’re upgrading your habits, and that makes you more clear, energetic, and courageous because that makes you a more influential role model. And then that allows you to wield the tools of influence to impact these people in a hugely positive way.”
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by [email protected] | Dec 21, 2022 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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Are you a dental practice owner looking to get ahead of the game and increase your revenue? Look no further! We will explore ways to upgrade your revenue attraction strategies and help you achieve financial growth in today’s dental podcast.
Dental practice owners: Let’s discuss how to upgrade your revenue attraction strategies!
- If you want to avoid playing blindfolded archery in 2023…
- If you want to accelerate your treatment conversion…
- If you want to find a Collections Ninja that you can execute into a forecast for financial growth, tune in now!
With the new year just right around the corner, don’t miss out on the opportunity to lead the way and avoid shooting aimlessly in 2023.
Listen in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
Check out our New Case Study, “Discover How To Recession-Proof Your Dental Practice In The Next 60 Days So That You Increase Profits & Avoid Losing Key Team Members” now at: http://thenorecessiondentist.com/casestudy.
Key Quotes:
- “We want to drive down costs and enhance the quality of the patients that come in.”
- “We want to have fruits of the labor, but we always want to enjoy the fruits of the labor and ideally enjoy the labor.”
- “If we’re going to attract more revenue next year, the real obstacle is internal resistance to conversion.”
- “Delegate all that you can.”
- “Growth is no longer nice to have. It is essential to keep up with the increasing cost of doing business.”
- “You should be treating yourself like your most important employee all the time.”
- “There’s a time and a place to sacrifice, but most of your practices are well beyond that point where you should be taking the leftovers.“
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