The new landscape for recruitment is Digital. Whether it’s a new team member or a clinician, your initial research now takes place online. Yesterday, a dentist asked me how best to find a new GDP associate – “the BDJ or some other publication?” My first response will get me in hot water: “I’m going to
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Last week I invested a lot of time in establishing my personal and professional vision for 2016. Chatting to a friend on Tuesday morning he commented that on trying the same, he found himself staring at a blank sheet and suffering a form of writer’s block. Nothing happening. So his question was “what do I need
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OK, that’s all done, so now it’s time to just pop next door for a quick clean with our lovely hygienist Mary The word “just” creeps into our vocabulary for the wrong reasons. We think that by adding “just” to a sentence we make things seem simpler, easier and, therefore, more likely to be
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Draw Toast? How would you like your team to take part in a training exercise that is completely original – and not have to pay a penny for the workshop facilitation? Here’s my proposal. I’m looking for a volunteer practice/team/group to take part in an experimental workshop sometime in Q1 of 2016. The benefit to
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In the heyday of The Dental Business School workshops, I used to make a politically incorrect joke about the long-suffering male Dental Principal who returns home after a hard day at the practice to hear the words: “I bought these shoes in the sale. They should have been £120. I got them for £80. I
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The second major task I planned for yesterday (after the MOAS – cash flow forecast) was to review and finalise my calendar for 2016. Again, the 20th anniversary this year of utilising The Entrepreneurial Time System created by Dan Sullivan at The Strategic Coach (see the links at the end of this post if you
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A big day for me today (and for those who have been working their way through our Get Your Year in Gear (GYYIG) programme for the last 7 weeks). This morning I’ll be creating my personal cash flow forecast for 2016 – estimating my personal expenses on necessities and luxuries next year and creating a
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In spite of inaccurate attribution to Confucius and other proverb-makers, the term “use a picture, it’s worth a thousand words” can first be heard in an instructional talk given by newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane to the Syracuse Advertising Men’s Club in March 1911. The context was that those who purchased print media would be engaged
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Today is the first of 5 working days during which I will be predominantly based in my office at home (The Barrow Bunker) and investing time in preparation for 2016. The successful habit here is to book a week in your calendar, every 3 months, where you do not have to pursue sales, productivity and
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Airline pilots define their experience by the number of “hours” they have in the air. Wouldn’t that be a useful way to interview potential new team members – and also a great way to define ourselves in front of our patients and clients? “so tell me Susan – how many flying hours do you have as
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