There is something very therapeutic about having a good clear-out. Over the weekend, we vacated the ground floor (lounge and dining room with connecting french windows) in preparation for Phil The Decorator, who will be arriving at 08:00 this morning. It’s effectively going to be a lick of paint, as you might say. There will
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Writing under the pen name of Fougasse, Cyril Kenneth Bird was one of the most popular cartoonists and illustrators of the first half of the twentieth century. The images and captions to Fougasse’s eight World War II propaganda posters ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ were part of the anti-rumour/gossip campaign orchestrated by the Ministry of Information.
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Confidence isn’t a state of mind that one acquires after becoming successful. Confidence is a verb – it’s a behaviour that we have to get up and do every day, no matter how we really feel, IN ORDER TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL. The phrase “fake it until you make it” doesn’t apply where your own safety
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Here’s what you can train people to do: Technique So if you want me to train your people – that’s fine – just tell me what technique you want them to master and I’ll show up – or I’ll refer you to a master-trainer in any areas I don’t cover. (I train people to become
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Time to pack on Monday morning as I’ll be leaving Sydney later in the day. My final day is spent with Lawrence Neville and the team at Spa Dental in the city’s Central Business District (CBD). I’ll not go into the detail here as that’s confidential but suffice to say that I sat down with
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I’ve been thinking recently about and observing how teams collaborate. You’ve heard me say many times that “all problems exist in the absence of a good conversation”. In a dental team, that conversation is now more often digital than face to face. Is that a benefit or a curse? That choice is yours. However, based
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My June newsletter includes two free downloads. One is an alternative to the dreaded employee “appraisal” and the other is a GDPR-compliant Patient Consent Form. There’s also a link to a FREE 60-minute webinar recording for Practice Managers on Leadership & Management. If you didn’t get the newsletter in your in-box – it’s because
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Our adventures in business require both Direction and Momentum to be truly nourishing. Direction is a strong understanding of where we are going – a relentless pursuit of SMART and ethical goals. Momentum is the effort that people put in – it is a sign of voluntary hard work by a team who want to
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Sheila Scott has told everyone in dentistry that she has retired – but we have managed to get her agreement on a short revival of the acclaimed Workshop Tour with which she ended her illustrious career earlier this year. Yes – it’s Top Hats, Toast & Moments of Truth (THTMOT). We played to 16 packed
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The word cadence has to do with rhythm, the rhythm of sounds in nature, of music, of a person’s voice. In exercise, we recognise cadence as the rhythm of a runner or cyclist; the “happy cadence” described by my physiotherapist as the pace at which I’m not damaging myself and can carry on running or
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