Rather inconsiderate, if I may say so, to issue the press release on the Friday morning that I’m frantically attempting to complete my task list before departing for a Northumberland coastal cottage, having committed to one lady and two excited hunting dogs that I’ll be off the grid for a week. Now, the biggest sacrifice
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I’m looking for 5 new clients from March 2017 Here’s a shopping list of the outcomes I can deliver for you: if you are building a micro-corporate, I can help with acquisitions and with the integration of new practices into your group or I can help you to locate, open and grow a cold squat
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The word “business manager” is important here. I don’t consider it part of my scope of practice to comment on the performance of a clinic manager – that would be the person responsible for issues like compliance, governance, supplies, rota and team well-being. To a large extent the role of clinic manager is an echo
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I want to tell you about a young lady who approached me at The BDIA. I was immediately fascinated by her story. She is English based (and speaking) and was unable to get a place in a UK dental school – so she went to Hungary under her own steam, learned the language whilst there
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Chatting to a Principal last night about her 3-year business strategy (a former client), she asked me “Chris are you just dealing with micro-corporates now then?” Note to self : get your marketing message clear. I’m still dealing with practices of all shapes and sizes, from single-handed to multi-location, NHS, mixed and private. It got
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Don’t shoot the messenger but someone famously said that if a committee were convened to design a horse, it would end up a camel – totally functional but ugly as hell. One of the biggest challenges facing any organisation that is growing rapidly is to avoid that trap and the more obvious consequences including (as
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Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. HORACE MANN, Thought It’s always a risk to accept the challenge of predicting possible futures. The last time I gave a
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On Monday 10th October Chris Barrow and Colin Campbell have been invited to speak to a group of new graduates at a charity event in London. It’s going to be a ‘no holds barred’ event where Barrow and Campbell discuss what they think will happen in dentistry in the next five – ten years
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What you will learn from the best sales trainers, people like my friend Ashley Latter, is that empathetic listening makes all the difference in relationships with business partners, team members, freelancers, suppliers and patients. Add to that your family, friends and neighbours and it becomes a huge part of “who” you are – rather more
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A dental business is now offering £5.75 per UDA to associates, as quoted by Kevin Lewis in his excellent presentation on matters dento-legal at last Friday’s Stars of Dentistry conference. Now I can see why the “apprentice dentist” concept (mentored in an independent private practice with a salary of £32,000) is attractive and generates 60-100 enquiries
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