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Team motivation

Uniting as a Team to Overcome Challenges During a Pandemic

Running an efficient dental practice while keeping up with the advances of delivery of care during a pandemic can be an area that overwhelms many dental professionals. Whether you are a practice owner, administrative or clinical team member, being part…

What Does Practice Leadership Look Like During COVID-19?

The Oral Health Group has a fantastic resource on its site, curating several helpful news items and “what-comes-next” features all related to COVID-19. A number of the headlines reflect both frustration about the lack of clear reopening guidelines in different…

Just A Spoonful Of… Stress?

A recent study from the Oral Health Foundation caught my attention. According to the study, evidence suggests that office workers are the most likely to eat sugary food and drinks as a result of stress – rather than those out…

Don’t Allow The Bully Into Your Workplace

Picture working in this environment: Your entire team, led by the office manager, has conspired against you. At lunch time, there is never a chair at the table for you. Sometimes, the lunch you have prepared has been thrown out…

The Real Secret of Success is Enthusiasm

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm – Winston Churchill This past February, Oral Health was invited to Henry Schein’s National Sales Meeting at the Scotiabank Convention Centre in Niagara Falls, Ontario – and it…

Paid Getting in Tune: Best-Practices for Engaging Your Employees in the Year Ahead

Increased attention has been given to employee engagement and retention in recent years. Many practice leaders are now making it a top-priority, investing more time and resources into assessing and subsequently improving engagement among team members. And for good reason.…

Betterment Begins With Attitude

You want the best for yourself and your practice, but the first step toward getting there is developing the right mindset. Have you ever wondered what it takes to make it to the very top in dentistry? I’m not talking…

Strategizing for Success

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It’s the ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. Teamwork divides the task and multiples the success. There is something to be said about working collaboratively with your…

The Critical Importance of Team Development & Dynamics in Your Practice

Developing an effective team can be one of the most crucial aspects of success in a practice. It takes time, as each member brings unique personality traits, preferences, styles and experiences to the team. It is a worthy investment, because…

7 Tips to Bring Out the Best Results from Your Dental Team

What makes a successful dental practice? Sometimes the sales numbers are decreasing and you may wonder why your company is not reaching its potential. The reason for such a situation may be that your employees are not happy. So how…

How Relevant Are You in Changing Times?

Change is everywhere and especially in dentistry.  How are you adapting to the changes and using them to be more relevant to your patients? Technology, as we all know, is revolutionizing what the dentist is able to accomplish in the…

Are you taking Advantage of Adaptive Content?

The foundation for all success, growth, progress and momentum….

As the old saying goes; “If you’re not growing, you are dying”. Constant and never-ending progress is the root cause of all success and fulfillment. The one percent of the population who succeed at the highest level all have one…

Online Reviews Matter – 5 Steps To An Improved Brand Image

The Secret To High Performing Teams Revealed!

Do you ever wonder why your team isn’t performing at the level you envisioned?  No matter what you do it seems as if there’s a missing piece to the ‘perfect team’ formula.  With each new hire you’re hopeful, but you…

Tuesday Tip from Pride Institute: Strategic planning retreats excellent tools for dental teams

It is not too early to start planning for the last quarter of your Annual Plan, which truly feels like the last several miles of a marathon race. You have to make sure your long distance runners (aka, your team)…

Soaring to New Heights with SCN

I have just returned from the Speaking Consulting Network (SCN) meeting, held June 6th to 9th 2013, in Loveland, Colorado and what an amazing experience! Approximately 200 + dynamic, high energy and enthusiastic individuals gathered to  mix, mingle, share, learn…

The Power of Teamwork

LESSONS FROM GEESE With the geese returning at this time of year, it is a great reminder of teamwork. Geese fly in formation, behind the lead goose trusting that the leader will guide everyone in the right direction. We can…

Get your popcorn, your nachos, your industrial size diet coke and grab a chair

WE GOT MOVIES!!!!! Click on the link above and there are scads of videos for patient education…….My Teeth Tube is a superb site………worth the visit….and quite the range.

Apple iPad: Happy 2nd Birthday

Apple changed the way we think about computing and digital devices–again–when it introduced the iPad tablet in early 2010. Take a look back and a peek ahead.  Take a walk through it’s two year history – read article. From the iPHONE,…