by [email protected] | Feb 3, 2021 | Legendary Leadership
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Del Denney is a keynote speaker, performance coach, and leadership consultant. Having consulted for the top personal development training organizations in the U.S., Del has addressed thousands of people in toxin seminars. He joins the show today to help distill the complex topic of leadership down to a simple framework that you can apply in your practice immediately.
Listen in as Del shares how he developed his growth mindset and ended up being an expert and leader in the personal development field. You’ll learn why people lack clarity in purpose and vision, as well as how that applies to dentistry, so you can better find clarity and purpose in your career. Del also walks through the value of having frameworks to follow and provides one that will help you increase your influence with your staff and your patients.
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Key Quotes:
- “My father was in prison, I was doing crazy stuff, and long story short, I realized that the path I was on would lead to the same place he was at. It was Christmas night, and I realized that if I want all of this to change, I have to change. That’s when my personal growth journey started.”
- “It doesn’t have to be this fluffy thing—follow step 1, step 2, step 3. People overcomplicate things. Just find the framework and go with it.”
- “The question is: Who do you want to serve? And how do you serve well? That helps to guide you into your purpose.”
- “When we get distracted, that’s when unhappiness comes. When we get clear on our vision and keep it in the forefront of our mind, we’ll be much happier.”
- “The fact is, we’re all leaders, and I hope that people realize that. Leadership is influence.”
- “The foundation of leadership is developing relationships with your staff and patients.”
- “A great leader is a servant leader. Your job is to listen to your staff. This is a chance to observe your staff so that you can serve your staff.”
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by [email protected] | Feb 12, 2020 | Hints for Happiness
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If you’re at a point with your practice where you feel like you are bored, burnt out, and broken, it’s probably not your circumstances, community, or team. What it probably means is that you are lacking purpose, or you’ve lost your purpose somehow. In this episode, I’ll be talking about the importance of having and maintaining a strong sense of purpose and fighting to keep pursuing it.
Listen in as I present to you Dentistry’s Chasm of Meaning. This is an illustration that I’ll walk you through in order to understand why and where purpose gets lost in the process of working through our dentistry careers. I will discuss everything from avoiding the games that cannot be won to creating a prosperous practice where you can serve people at a higher level.
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Key Quotes:
- “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
- “I believe we are trying to find external solutions to internal problems, which never leads to a happy ending.”
- “If we try to be everything to everyone, we are nothing to no one.”
- “Our default is more is better and dentistry is success.”
- “Burnout is giving more than you’ve got for too long.”
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by Karah Karah | Oct 24, 2018 | Legendary Leadership
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One of the biggest things to work on in life is making sure to not take your work issues home and not take your home issues to work. This week I’ll share about how I made a shift in my life and mindset where I don’t put work first and I’m not afraid to take days off. This doesn’t mean work isn’t important, it’s all about making sure to fit in the most important things and be intentional about your scheduling.
By fine-tuning your priorities and sticking to your non-negotiables, you will be able to fit in the most important things in your life and practice. I’ll share a list of the most important things to make sure you fit into your schedule and make a priority – everything else should come after these. From taking care of yourself and developing your skills to spending time with family and truly feeding into your team, it’s so crucial to make sure you are being intentional and scheduling in what matters the most so that the little things don’t steal your days.
Key Quotes:
- “The practice shouldn’t run you. There are times it demands more of you but you should be able to harvest cash flow and time.”
- “If you don’t rise as a leader, the practice will suffer. It’s all about how you show up. If you’re dragging your feet and having a case of the Mondays, you can guarantee your team will too.”
- “There’s always some undone thing that I kinda want to work on but I need that time [lunch time] to make sure that my afternoon is productive.”
- “To take days or half-days to really work on your business is something you really need to do on a continual basis.”
- “Make sure you’re developing the legacy you want.”
- “It’s almost a badge of honor to talk about how busy you are but everyone has the same amount of time and it’s about priorities.”
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by Karah Karah | Oct 17, 2018 | Prescriptions for your Practice
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This episode is all about understanding your fears and finding effective ways to lead and grow your practice. The pain of fear can be so crippling but it doesn’t have to hold you back if you don’t let it. We’ll go over the common fears people have when it comes to their practice and challenge you to not let that fear get in your way by choosing courage over comfort.
First you’ll learn about the different hats that dentists, especially leaders, should be wearing and how to develop your leadership skills to bring out the best in your team. The next step is finding where fear is holding you back so you’ll learn about some common ways that fear keeps you from growing and how to push past those issues.
Key Quotes:
- “There are several hats that dentists have to wear and I think the leader themselves should wear a few different hats.”
- “The common theme I see in the purpose of all people is that they should be growing and expanding and they should be serving.”
- “The way that we’re going to grow now is to grow the people. Grow their confidence and grow their capabilities.”
- “If you’re not intentional about growth, increasing the skillsets of people that are there and increasing your own skillsets, it’s an easy way to have your practice inadvertently plateau.”
- “In a practice you actually have to encourage people to make mistakes.”
- “Capability comes after courage. After some reps you’re developing some confidence.”
- “You can’t be the leader who criticizes them for making mistakes because they will stop making the effort.”
- “Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s doing something that you fear. The fears never really go away.”
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