Effective Recruitment, An Investment In Your Dental Practice
Whether or not you’re recruiting new employees at this exact moment, there will soon come a time when you’ll need to hire new staff. Many dental practice managers struggle with hiring, seeing it as a time-consuming task that drags you away from your normal daily responsibilities and puts pressure on the rest of your team as you try to manage short-handed. However, there is a...Read More
Getting Your Dental Practice Financials Back in Shape
You have your practice up and running in the new normal. You’ve already re-engineered patient management to be ‘COVID proof’ at your office, for the health and safety of your patients as well as your staff. The pandemic has also likely forced you to limit the number of patients you can see each day. On top of that, you’ve probably also had some patients delay or cancel cleanings and treatments...Read More
Rebuild Your Culture Focusing On The Future
After The Storm, Its Time To Rebuild Your Culture As a dental manager, you will have dealt with a lot recently to make significant changes to your practice to provide quality care and top-class patient experiences within the new requirements and guidelines laid out by the various health- dental organizations and your state and city. It’s not been easy, but hopefully, you have managed to...Read More
Dental Marketing Success: Understanding Your Patients
Recently, a colleague shared with me a promotional email they had received from a dental practice, offering dental whitening at a discounted price. We assume it was sent to their entire patient database. This got me thinking – I wonder how successful this offer will be in generating business for them? As a dental practice consultant, I’m always curious about how individual practices market...Read More
Cross-Training Is Key To Manage Absenteeism
A dental practice needs well-trained experts in their traditional, assigned roles. But, cross-training is an inexpensive investment that will save the day. Cross-Training Your Team To Manage Around The Challenges of Absenteeism In a well-known quote, William Cowper once said, ‘variety is the spice of life, that gives it all its flavor,’ a common saying that applies to all aspects...Read More
Marketing Your Dental Practice During a Pandemic
Dental practices all over the country are thrilled, and relieved, to be open again. Hopefully, the backlog of patients who missed their scheduled appointments this spring is keeping your clinic busy. Despite the impact of COVID-19, marketing remains important to the health of your business. Particularly in light of the current uptick in cases, many patients may hesitate to schedule dental care...Read More
It Is Time to Consider Switching to Virtual Learning
Online training has come a long way in the last two decades. With the plethora of e-learning authoring tools that have emerged, virtual learning is more effective and engaging than ever before. It’s also much more cost-effective than conventional classroom-based training. Following are just some of the advantages of e-learning over in-person training. Significant cost reduction. The...Read More
Dental Practice Growth: Leadership Matters
A Forbes article notes that “When good leadership is in place in a company, it can be felt throughout the entire organization” and “Bad leadership can also be felt throughout the entire organization―only not in the right way. We couldn’t agree more! In my dental consulting practice, I’ve witnessed first-hand the impacts of both effective and sub-par leadership. When strong...Read More
Strategies for Reducing Staff Turnover
While helping dental businesses to thrive and grow over the past decade, I’ve found that there’s one challenge that plagues nearly all of my clients—staff turnover. Below are some actions you can take to recruit and retain top talent. First, let’s look at the typical staffing scenario in a dental practice. The front office staff person gives two weeks’ notice. The practice scrambles to hire a...Read More