by [email protected] | Mar 29, 2023 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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Dental practice owners, we have all encountered the struggles and doubts caused by the pandemic. With no guaranteed return to pre-pandemic conditions, it is essential that we modify and develop new ways of managing our practices.
Let us explore PERMA and Flourishing that may transform your dental practice and keep you ahead of the competition. PERMA model concentrates on five essential elements that lead to a person’s well-being.
In this episode, I discuss why the way we work is such a train wreck.
- So if you want to understand the PERMA method to higher productivity…
- If you want to feel less tired and worried about your dental practice…
- If you know why your employees need a best friend at work so that you can put an end to team turnover…
Tune in now!
By implementing these elements into your practice, you can craft a positive workplace, enhance the patient experience, increase employee engagement, and develop resilience during tough times.
Listen in and find solutions to common practice issues at Prescriptions for Your Practice.
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Key Quotes:
- “A people-first flourishing practice that aims to bring out the best in the owner, the best in the team, the best in patients, and the best in the community can win in this new economy.”
- “If the team is not feeling great, it’s going to permeate into the patient experience.”
- “When you hire somebody, their number one job is to be a supportive teammate.”
- “The biggest problem in the workplace is meaningless work. People are no longer willing to trade their time for your dollars.”
- “Anchor your team’s work to meaning.”
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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] | Oct 26, 2022 | Prescriptions for your Practice, Uncategorized
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Is it time to raise your fees?
The biggest problem I see in the marketplace is the increasing cost of doing business. Dental practice owners must have the courage to set their fees high enough that they don’t have to work harder or take a pay cut in this volatile economy. It’s part of the game of doing business.
But how do you know when it’s time to raise your fees?
Doc, if you want to:
- Retain your top team members,
- Understand the different dental patient value systems, and
- Keep up with inflation so you can succeed in a volatile economy, then
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:
- “The underlying problem is that the owner’s confidence and self-esteem play a major role in setting the fees.”
- “We don’t let our personal insecurities keep our practice from growing.”
- “Nurture that savvy business owner, CEO, and entrepreneur who makes intellectual decisions that are best for long-term practice.”
- “There’s a value in a relationship that exceeds and is more important to them [patient] than your fees.”
- “The trust and rapport you’ve built up, that emotional equity has a real value, and it’s worth more to most of your patients than worrying about and getting all frantic about a fee bump.”
- “You’ll need to continue investing in your technology, training, and team to provide a premium patient experience.”
- “Be courageous, be bold, raise your fees, and pay yourself what you’re really worth, which is probably more than what you’re paying yourself right now.”
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by [email protected] | Jul 27, 2022 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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“People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it and what you do simply proves what you believe.” – Simon Sinek
What’s your purpose as a dental practice owner? Why are you doing what you’re doing? But while you seek out your purpose, why not create a “Why Stack” that you can use to leverage on yourself and keep you going in good times and in bad? I want you to have a thriving practice with plenty of cash flow and high profits. But most importantly, I also want you to enjoy it because that enjoyment part is a requirement.
In this episode, I discuss how to avoid the two BIG cash flow killers.
So if you want to understand how dentists stay motivated in challenging times and finally answer the question “what’s in this for me?” so you can consistently increase your income and net worth, 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. Check my Instagram (@dr.maloley) and TikTok (@dr.maloley) for your daily dose of thought-provoking content so that you can be a better practice owner. 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:
- “I think the important underlying conversation to succeeding beyond standard norms over the long term is how do we get enhanced results while reducing stress? Because if we don’t reduce that stress, then bad things happen.”
- “The problem is that there are all these books, hundreds of books talking about finding your purpose, right? And I feel like purposes are now positioned as this big elusive thing.”
- “If you’re gonna be good at leading a team and your team is gonna be good at leading patients to do the right thing for their health, then you’re gonna need more than extrinsic motivating factors.”
- “I think there’s a greed slash ego slash selfishness issue in modern society. But the thing I will say is I do not think that’s a problem with most dentists.”
- “Generally speaking, we are happier when we’re spending money on experiences and less happy when we’re spending on tangible items. But that’s not exactly true either, right?”
- “If you’re a solo practitioner, you get to decide and choose a path of being not on demand, but in demand.
- The more valuable we are, the more income we have.”
- “A little frustration is actually a good thing because you’re uncomfortable and you’re gonna find a resolution.”
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by [email protected] | Jun 29, 2022 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.” – Viktor Frankl
What drives your confidence? What enhances your leadership skills and ability to build your team and culture? In what ways are you giving purpose in your life and career to achieve happiness?
In this episode, I expose what’s attacking your happiness. So if you want to,
- understand today’s most important currency,
- acknowledge there’s an addiction chess match going on in your home and practice, and
- leverage dopamine to get everything you want so you can engineer indefinite motivation and growth, tune in now!
I want you to master this motivation molecule so you suffer less and win more regardless of the challenges and the economy.
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. Check my Instagram (@dr.maloley) and TikTok (@dr.maloley) for your daily dose of thought-provoking content so that you can be a better practice owner. 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:
- “In this age of hyper abundance, over-indulgence, pleasure, and addiction, confidence will come from understanding in managing your dopamine.”
- “We live in an era of consumption and compulsion, and we have to embrace that. All of us are pleasure addicted.”
- “If we don’t understand addiction, and we don’t understand where it comes from, if we don’t understand how to leverage that as a force for good and avoid it as a force of evil, then we lose this chess match of addiction.”
- “We are our addictions. Our patterns of thought, our patterns of behavior, and what we typically call personality is simply an addiction.”
- “Pleasure inevitably leads to pain. And so we have to be okay with lows after our wins. It’s just part of the process.”
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