by [email protected] | Jun 15, 2022 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say” — Bryant H. McGill
Doc, do you need to get better at Dentistry’s most profitable skill? If you want to…
- earn patient trust and rapport,
- know the key to effective interpersonal communication, and
- understanding your patients so you can improve referral and case acceptance rates,
then tune in now!
We want your dental practice to be full of raving fans, full of people going out in the community and talking about how awesome you are and how great of an experience you create.
Listen in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
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Key Quotes:
- “Sales is getting more difficult. People are more skeptical. People are tired of being lied to by the media and just assume that no one is to be just trusted at this point in time.”
- “If you are not seeking to understand, there’s a myriad of things that could be getting in the way.”
- “We have to make sure that we don’t need to pitch the service. We have to make sure that we’re solving problems for the patient.”
- “Most people don’t spend time to really understand what makes this individual and what makes them unique.”
- “Active listening from a healthcare provider is rare.”
- “Deep listening means not just listening to the words. It means listening to their emotion.”
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by [email protected] | May 25, 2022 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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“I don’t know what a business is. All a company is is a bunch of people together to create a product or service. There’s no such thing as a business, just pursuit of a goal — a group of people pursuing a goal.” — Elon Musk
How do you approach your business, and how do you solve your business problems? The problem with the dental practice today is that most dentists, hopefully not you, are running businesses via assumption and conventional thinking. The usual way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy with an analogy. We are doing this because it’s like something else did or what other people are doing.
In this episode, I will discuss Profiting from First Principles like Elon Musk. So if you want to conduct a “Knowing What I Now Know Analysis” on your practice, build a career that you enjoy, and benefit from non-conventional, fundamental truth thinking to gain an unfair advantage, tune in now!
Listen in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with your dentist friends. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates for The Relentless Dentist! And, finally, please take a minute to leave us an honest review and rating on iTunes. They really help us out when it comes to the show’s ranking, and I make it a point to read every single one of the reviews we get.
Key Quotes:
- “You’re smart enough to know, and as a D1 and D2, some of the things that you’re learning, you’re not going to do after you get your dental license.”
- “The possibility is that when you use first principle thinking, you ensure that you’re building a practice that best fits you. And it brings unique value to your community.”
- “Traditional thinking starts with limitations, and then you’re iterating and improving that existing path.”
- “If you just ask a typical dentist, what’s the purpose of your practice? They might say to fix teeth, to give patients back their confidence, smile, to restore oral health, something like that, right? But if you don’t have a customer, a client, a patient, the chair call, whatever you want, you don’t really have a business.”
- “All businesses are a reflection of their owner.”
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by [email protected] | Oct 20, 2021 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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What are we doing to ensure that we’re not presenting treatment in a skeptical environment and inadvertently generating negative marketing for ourselves and our businesses?
Research shows that 55% of all communication is in the body language, 38% is in the tone of voice, and 7% is in the actual words spoken — all of which make up the overall impression we give out to our patients.
The way your patients perceive your practice impacts every decision and action they take. This perception has a rippling effect on your confidence, staff, potential customers, and business security.
In today’s episode, I’ll share with you two contrasting personal stories on what enthusing client is and what it’s not. Then, I have some tips that you can train your team on to ensure you’re generating high-trust case acceptance in your practice. I’ll also talk about the importance of picking up non-verbal and social cues to reciprocate appropriate responses.
Tune in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
Key Quotes:
- “If we don’t do our practice in a trusting environment, it can generate buyer’s remorse and resentment if something goes wrong.”
- “Too often, we hang too much on what our patients are telling us, and sometimes they are not candid.”
- “We have to make sure that we’re picking up on the tone of voice and body language before we’re really satisfied that this person is scheduled for the next phase of treatment.”
- “If we don’t read their body language, we can inadvertently scare and confuse the patient.”
- “The possibility is that we appreciate that body language doesn’t lie.”
- “The goal that we must establish and the intent that we should have is that every patient all day long is seen, heard, and felt like we’ve let them know that they matter to us.”
- “You should look for a long-term relationship because it pays dividends again and again and again.”
- “Your team is your eyes, ears, and spokespeople, so they must be good as you are, if not better.”
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by [email protected] | Aug 25, 2021 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” — Albert Einstein
Money is necessary to put up and run a practice — we can’t argue with that. But, it is not the be-all and end-all. The money supports our basic needs, goals, and security, but it cannot create a purpose in and of itself — and that’s what I want to talk about today.
In this episode, I will share with you things that are not necessarily money-centered but can provide a significant impact on your business and even drive profits. These key indicators that aren’t focused on a dollar figure but are profit-magnets will keep you, and your staff performs at their best.
Tune in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
Key Quotes:
- “If we treat money as a math game, we lose track of what really drives profits.”
- “If a business is human-centered, you can have all of the profits that you want. But if a business is profit-centered, then you’ll end up invariably taking advantage of people.”
- “Trust, enthusiasm, and value are all emotional events. And employees’ morale and motivation drive productivity. Your energy and focus and stack of skills drive business growth.”
- “A bad day for you can turn into a rut, and a rut can turn into a pit.”
- “You can’t expect your team to be enthusiastic about their job if you’re checked out. The tone is set at the top.”
- “You should be mindful about what you’re putting into your eyes and your ears.”
- “The key components of a strong culture are safety, hope, optimism, resiliency, and efficacy.”
- “What keeps you enthusiastic will keep you productive.”
- “Referrals are the most viable thing in your business.”
- “Case acceptance starts at the moment somebody hears about you.”
- “A strong referral system can double or triple your marketing return on investment.”
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by [email protected] | Feb 26, 2020 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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We often complete trainings on and talk about things we only use and do on occasion, but we tend to put important things that we use all the time—like communication—on the back burner. In this episode, Dr. Chris Bowman joins me to break down the importance of communicating more effectively. We discuss the obligation we have to our patients and how communication will help us fulfill what is ethical and incredibly beneficial to them and our practices.
Listen in as Chris shares where most dentists miss out on having maximum satisfaction from their practice, as well as how to make better decisions and present options to patients in a consistent and practical manner. You’ll learn the issues with confidence that affect our ability to do these things, how we tend to make judgments that are off, and what makes patients more likely to follow our advice.
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Key Quotes:
- “The biggest difference between the dentists who do well and the dentists who don’t is those who just get into it and do it.”
- “Telling someone something they don’t want to hear takes courage.”
- “There are certain skills that will get replaced by machines, but things like communication and connection—that human need will never be replaced.”
- “We have an obligation to let patients know what we can do for them, as well as the things that are or are not moving in the direction they want it to go.”
- “Patients are more likely to follow our advice when they know we ethically have their back.”
- “Everyone wants the problems that they know they have to go away. So if we get really good at explaining the problems and conditions and how those things are not going the way that they want, then we can get really effective at gaining acceptance for our treatment recommendations.”
- “It becomes more about presenting and selling a problem rather than presenting and selling a solution.”
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