bonus-calculator.xls This is a simple but effective little spreadsheet for you to download and play with. In the practice who use it, profits are calculated monthly and then distributed to all salaried staff in the same proportion that their individual salary bears to the overall payroll cost. This means that everybody is getting the same
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David Horobin at Chapel Road Orthodontics in Bexleyheath has created a job advert as part of his web site.   Click here    David writes: it’s fed by an entry in the Blog and can also be indicated from a job advert in the local press    Dental Design did the design and I modify
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John Street Dental Practice 67 John Street · Workington · Cumbria CA14 3BT · T: 01900 65217 · F: 01900 871005 An excellent opportunity has arisen for two, motivated, enthusiastic and dedicated individuals to join this long established and highly regarded private dental practice in Workington. We are a fully private practice that seeks to
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Working with the team at Circle Orthodontics in a modern church hall/conference facility outside St Albans. Last day before the Easter break and a mammoth drive home tonight. I’ll tell you more about today next week. Interesting business model – 11 practices forming a producer group – about which I have written before but this is
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Whether we like it or not – the media have their teeth into this now. Heather has left court with £24 million. Britney isn’t in prison or care at the moment. Amy is out of rehab. Al Fayed has had his day in court. So there’s not much scandal about and hacks are bored. So
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I picked up a brochure in their store yesterday – and on first read it looks like a great deal for the patient and for the dentist. Am I missing something? They refer to an online site but I cannot find it – suggest you pop into Tesco on the way home. Their Premium Cover
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My amazing week finishes on the main platform at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre, where I conduct the morning session at Dentistry Live! – a “warm up” for Jennifer de St Georges in the afternoon. We enjoyed ourselves hugely yesterday, with an audience of 200 – and I’m delighted to say that, not only was the
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Many questions about my last post – most of which revolve around “how do we pass the patients on to the associate when the principal has been looking after them for so long?” Here is a letter that we drafted with one of our clients: Dear Patient Important information about your next visit to XYZ Dental 
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There are two styles of dentist: Attack – reliably productive, predictably good at communication, encouragingly enthusiastic, popular with patients and team, £1000+ a day producers; Defence – reliably plodding, predictably introvert, worryingly demotivated, £700-£1000 a day producers. I’ve noticed that, no matter how many training courses you send the defence to – Breathe, Ashley Latter,
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Checked out of Thorpe Park at 6.00am this morning, so that I could drive down to Derbyshire and avoid the rush-hour traffic around Sheffield. Breakfast at the Dakota. My check out in Leeds is handled by the same girl that has worked there for years – always smiling,  always cheerful, always helpful. It’s not usual to
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