Here’s a list of reasons why you could give up, throw the towel in, sell up and go: The threat of litigation; The burden of compliance; The meddling of Government; The squeeze by insurance companies: The scarcity of good clinicians and team members; The irritation and dilution of competition; The behaviours of your most troublesome
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Heading up to The Lake District this morning for a full day of coaching with Neil Cooper and the team from Crossbank Dental Care – friends and clients since the practice opened. What a great way to end the working week before taking a 4-day rest from the travel. I’ll never regret my decision to
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My quarterly workshops begin with a round-robin of updates from the delegates on their wins (and their challenges) from the last 90 days. This is always an opportunity to take an overview from my sample of independent practice owners and feel their collective pulse – thus allowing me to spot any trends emerging in the
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Problem 1 – same stuff – different day I have a sense that there are dental teams out there who are waiting for some direction; for the leader to tell them: where we are heading and what’s in it for them? You cannot expect any team to keep their levels of enthusiasm and energy high
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Friday morning and a day in The Bunker on video calls with coaching clients – a monthly catch up between workshops that gives them a chance to ask me questions and me a chance to feel the pulse of my client base and, thus, the larger dental community. This week we also hosted a group
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I recently polled the members of my private Facebook group – The Extreme Business Forum – asking them for three favourite subjects that they would like me to cover in a series of one-hour tutorials I’m putting together. The clear winner was a request for any information on how to make teams work. Second, tips
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I’ve had a marvellous week. Rachel Turner sorted my head out on Monday. Phillippa Goodwin has moved me effortlessly between Manchester, Milan, London and Surrey. I’ve chatted with an accountant in Adelaide about financial reporting for our mutual client in Melbourne; with my client in Boston, USA about growth plans for 2019 and beyond. I’ve
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It was a conversation with my business coach that had me scribbling furiously on a notepad as Rachel Turner shared her wisdom and experience on dealing with overwhelm. Yes – overwhelm – the business coach asking his business coach about how to navigate a way through feeling that there aren’t enough hours in the day.
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All of my active coaching clients (and their designated team members) receive an automated email on Friday morning, directing them to a Google Forms landing page, where they can complete a weekly progress report. We call that The Extreme Weekly Tracker. The questions they answer are: What were my most significant accomplishments last week? What
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So it’s 06:15am for me and 12:45am for you (if you are in my home time zone) as I write this blog post, listening to the call to prayer outside my hotel room in Mumbai and getting myself prepared for day 1 of a 2-day workshop here with my friend and client Manish Chitnis. Having
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