by [email protected] | Aug 2, 2023 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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Ask yourself: How can I infuse high-agency thinking into my daily interactions with my team and patients? The answer lies in your hands.
Embracing a high-agency mindset not only benefits you as a dental practice owner but also positively impacts your team and patients. As you lead with confidence and encourage ownership among your team members, you’ll witness enhanced team morale and performance, fostering a proactive and solution-oriented practice. By adopting this proactive approach, you can lead your practice with adaptability, innovation, and resilience, even in changing times.
In this episode, I discuss why you must avoid the blame culture in our industry.
- So if you want to enjoy Have-it-All Prosperity…
- If you are ready to abandon any reliance on external validation…
- If you want to utilize the 12 tools of a High Agency Dental Practice Owner so you can have your best year every year…
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Key Quotes:
- “High agency is the belief that dental practice owners have the power to act and affect change in their circumstances, irrespective of external conditions. It’s a proactive mindset revolving around resilience and personal responsibility.”
- “Lack of agency can lead to stagnation in personal growth, external blame culture, and over-reliance on external validation. These hinder practice owner confidence and growth potential.”
- “High agency dentists display an internal locus of control, seeing themselves as active shapers of their destiny, not passive recipients of fate. They exhibit visionary thinking, perseverance, empathy, and leadership.”
- “Dentists can cultivate high agency by enhancing self-awareness, setting clear goals, fostering a growth mindset, taking responsibility for actions, being proactive, and learning from failures.”
- “As high agency leads to more opportunities, it becomes essential to set boundaries and prioritize commitments aligned with one’s goals. Saying no to distractions is crucial for continued growth.”
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by [email protected] | May 3, 2023 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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Are you tired of feeling stuck on the never-ending treadmill of chasing extrinsic rewards like money and fame? Do you feel like no matter how much success you achieve, satisfaction and joy continue to elude you? As a dental practice owner, it’s easy to fall into the trap of being motivated solely by external factors, but this approach is ultimately unsustainable and can lead to poor mental health and burnout.
Let’s dive deeper into the world of intrinsic motivators and how they can transform your dental practice and your life. As a leader, it’s your job to model the way and align your actions with your core beliefs and values, providing you with a sense of purpose and fulfillment.
In this episode, I discuss why chasing money will undermine your practice.
- So if you want to create an unfair dental practice advantage…
- If you want to discover the keys to sustained high motivation and high productivity…
- If you want to understand why curiosity leads to profitability so that you can get control of your career and life…
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Key Quotes:
- “Extrinsic motivators, think of this as the carrot and stick approach, they work until they don’t.”
- “You’re already enough. You’ve already proved yourself. You’re already a person of value. So just work to serve people.”
- “When people organize their behavior in terms of intrinsic strivings, relative to the extrinsic strivings, they seem more content.”
- “When we’re generating autonomy effectively, we’re doing what we’re doing because of interest and enjoyment and because it aligns with our core beliefs and values.”
- “Through that journey, that mastery path towards personal growth and excellence, guess what happens? You become more valuable. And then guess what happens? You get paid more.”
- “Intrinsically motivated people, dentists, in this case, tend to set goals that are challenging but achievable, which helps build confidence and self-efficacy.”
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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…
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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] | 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!
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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] | Nov 30, 2022 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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In order to succeed in dental practice, it is important to think big. By this, we mean having a clear and defined vision for your practice and then working hard to make that vision a reality.
Doc, are you stuck in mental loops of lack and limitation?
In this episode, I discuss the importance of BIG thinking!
So if you want to understand what keeps things difficult for today’s dental practice owners…
If you want to acknowledge that your “shoulds” are a red flag…
If you want to expand your vision and win no matter what, so you can live into your possibility and potential…
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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 everybody wakes up every day with the same mission, that’s when you do great things.”
- “Your future is going to be better than whatever is happening right now. And to pull that off, we can’t focus on the rearview mirror. We have to spend more time in our imagination than in our memory.”
- “As a leader, it’s our duty to have a big enough vision so that all the people that we lead can have their vision fit within our vision.”
- “Thinking big is just as easy as thinking small, but there’s a much bigger grander payoff there. And thinking big keeps you growing and makes your journey more fulfilling.”
- “You don’t have to have it all figured out. You just have to take the first steps toward your dream and have the willingness to do whatever it takes and be resourceful along the journey.”
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