Twice this week I have had the pleasure of listening to a presentation by Dr. Marcos White, explaining how his business has grown 33% in ONE YEAR by combining the effective use of his iTero scanner and a Pre-clinical Consultation (PCC) conducted by his treatment co-ordinators. Case acceptance UP. Average treatment plan value UP. Amount
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Not one but TWO free downloads in today’s blog to get your week off to a flying start. One of the FAQs I hear from clients is “how do I transfer patients away from my calendar and across to my associates, without the patients kicking up a fuss?” Very often this is because the Principal
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Any team member who is going to be discussing treatment or payment options with a patient has to display three basic characteristics. Knowing them might help you to choose your best players for this role (or help at the interview stage). The characteristics are confidence, technique and style. Confidence is like bravery. It is the
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How often should a practice owner meet face to face with their practice manager(s) – and what should they talk about? Periodicity What I’m referring to here isn’t the day to day banter of keeping the business going. Rather a sacrosanct, uninterruptible, quality conversation in which both (all) parties empathetically listen to each other –
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I’m coming to the end of two years of active coaching with Dr. Riaz Yar and the team at The Square Advanced Dental Care in Hale Barnes, Cheshire. That’s about 15 minutes walk from my home and so yesterday I enjoyed the unusual pleasure of walking to my client meeting through the autumn leaves of
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Our November Extreme Business Academy tutorial tackles a perennial topic in dentistry: should I pay bonuses? when? to whom? how much So I share with you my 50 years experience in the work place and 22 years in dentistry on: why people stay at a workplace how you should evaluate basic pay exactly what a
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It was OK for the first 240,000 years. As Homo Sapiens slowly hunted and gathered their way around, “how to do things” was passed from one generation to another by oral tradition. The oldest people in the tribe would demonstrate technique to the younger people – and so it went, through countless generations. Nothing changed.
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ZEST excitement, interest, energy and enthusiasm I’m grateful to Marnie Winyard, Business Development Manager at Cheltenham Dental Spa and Implant Clinic She used the word “zest” to describe the characteristics of the people who make things happen in every dental team and, in fact, in life. A four-letter word that embraces everything we are looking
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The Smile Spa in Stockton on Tees was sold to Portman Dental Care about 3 years ago and founders Simon and Sue Andrews delivered their last days of dentistry in January this year. I’m still completing a coaching assignment with the management team, advising on their marketing activity and attempting the delicate balance between the
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I’m always keeping my eyes and ears open for Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) from within my own client base and community. One of the regulars is along the lines of: “I’m unhappy with another individual’s performance and/or behaviour and I need to talk to them about it – but I don’t want it to get
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