Monday morning. The start of another week. Please take a moment to think and write down your answer to this question: “What would be the three things I can do this week, that would have the biggest IMPACT on my business and/or my life?” Write them down. Display prominently. Organise a week in which you
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This morning I’m sharing with you a GDP newsletter from Central England Specialist Referral Centre (CESRC) in Solihull, near Birmingham. Dr. Neil Wilson and the team have created what I regard as a great example of how to stay connected with a referring GDP community. Just the right balance of clinical information and human interest.
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Living beyond 2020 – BDIA My first time at “The Showcase” was 1996, when I’ve often reminisced that I walked around the NEC for the day and met one person I knew – dental technician Jeff Caddick. Now I have to navigate my way to and from the gents, pausing to chat with the many
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Jasmine Piran opened her own single-handed practice, Smiles by Jasmine, last year after a long career as a dental associate and an itch that needed to be scratched – ownership! Jasmine invested in the 2019 Extreme Business Workshop Programme and has agreed to stay for a further year of coaching in 2020. Here she spends
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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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Hello, this is Chris Barrow introducing you to October 2019’s “Two Reds” podcast with my friend Ashley Latter and I want to start with a bit of an apology to our guest. You see, Ashley came back from an Invisalign course recently and told me “I met this amazing dentist called Mark Hughes –
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I may have spotted a new benchmark in dentistry. It’s the average amount of time that visitors spend on your web site. Making it a habit to ask for a Google Analytics report from all coaching clients, I’m noticing that their visitors invest an average of 1 minute 45 seconds. Then I realised last week
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I received a WhatsApp message from a long-term friend Colin Lawson yesterday – he and I used to work together in financial services many years ago. Colin had been having a clear out and found a copy of my goals for 1997. A document printed by me on 22nd January 1997 (it was a Wednesday)
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The topic of leadership has been coming up recently in conversations with clients and at conferences and workshops. Sometimes it’s a straight question – “what are the characteristics of a good leader?” “How do I do that?” However, more often the questions are around a particular situation: I have a team member who has fallen
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