Onion skins Stop comparing your inside to other people’s outside. It seems a common attribute of female Principals that you want to look at everyone else around you, imagine their success and compare that with your perceived “failure”. So another round of self-doubt begins. I was taught many years ago by a wonderful personal coach
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The Quest   Recognise that the reason you are doing this is that you are alive when you are on a quest. It’s the way you are wired – it’s in your DNA – and it’s incurable. There is a problem with “quest” people. As soon as they have completed the latest challenge, they get
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The X-Woman I’ve come to the conclusion that you don’t do this because you are committed to owning a business – you do it because you are a mutant, whose X ability is ownership – and you cannot help yourself. You are required to have super-powers – to be indestructible. To be Titanium. I’m reminded of my
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Over the next few weeks we will be publishing a series of excerpts from a manuscript that Chris Barrow is currently developing into an ebook which focuses on women dental practice owners. Read the first installment below:   Part 1 Introduction It was the week before Christmas 2013. The end of a 5th consecutive year
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Over 40 delegates joined us on Monday evening for the latest of our Cfast Business of Dentistry webinars – this time on the subject of how to successfully convert enquiries into prospects, prospects into patients and patients into ambassadors. I’m sharing with you here the mind-map that formed the bedrock of the conversation. Enjoy and
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There appear to be three camps when it comes to sharing financial performance data with your team: 80% – tell them nothing – it isn’t any of their business and if they find out how much we are making it will be all over the village, then they will ask for more pay. 15% –
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“Good morning – I wonder if you could tell me the price of a dental implant?” Last Friday and Saturday, practice managers and owners of our Top 20 Club were able to enjoy a detailed conversation with our friend Tracy Stuart of NBS Training. We wanted them to have “the Tracy experience” for themselves –
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Due to circumstances beyond their control, Bridge2Aid needs to raise £50,000 before the end of March 2014 to ensure the charity can continue its vital work.   Why do they need such urgent help?   In the past few months, two things have happened resulting in a significant financial challenge.   Firstly, Bridge2Aid (B2A) was
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Today was the start of the first T20 meeting of 2014 for practice managers, followed by the practice owners leadership day tomorrow. We are proud to be working with video marketing guru, Jem Patel and his team from JSP Media Group, who will be capturing the highlights of the sessions on video. Jem has many
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A beauty of travelling for living is that life does provide the most entertaining material for blog posts. We were chatting to the team at ApexHub about this blog and decided that we might experiment with using Friday as a chance for me to reflect upon the week just gone – and decide which particular
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