What does your office care about? What are your office values? Dr. James Younger, CEO of TempStars, stresses the fact that you must have office values in place in order to guide your important practice decisions. Subscribe to Oral Health’s weekly e-newsletter to have the latest episode delivered straight to your inbox every week!
Dr. Carlo Biasucci joins Dr. Jordan Soll to discuss the evolving landscape of dentistry in Canada, highlighting the decline in solo practitioners. Dr. Biasucci shares advice for dental practice owners to adapt to business challenges and the importance of focusing on leadership, systems, and marketing in order to run a successful modern dental practice. Read … Read more
While monetary compensation does help, it is not always the number one answer for keeping your dental team happy. Dr. Howard Glazer, a practicing dentist for nearly 50 years, shares other ways you can ensure your team feels fulfilled working at your practice. Subscribe to Oral Health’s weekly e-newsletter to have the latest episode delivered straight … Read more
Welcome to 2025! This is it…”your year.” The year everything will be different. You have spent countless hours identifying the issues you want to improve in your practice. That work has enabled you to devise the perfect plan to fix all that is wrong in it. Now it is time to put that plan into … Read more
There’s a huge difference between delegation and what I call real leverage, and if you don’t get this right, it’ll cost you. Traditional delegation? It’s a trap—flawed, weak, and it leaves you cleaning up messes you never should’ve had to deal with in the first place. Let’s dive into why delegation is failing you and … Read more
Peter Barry, Practice Success Coach, reveals that only 15% of your success comes from your clinical knowledge/skills. The rest is dependent on your ability to deal with people. As a practice owner, become the inspiring leader that your team will want to follow. Subscribe to Oral Health’s weekly e-newsletter to have the latest episode delivered straight … Read more
“Nobody on my team can make decisions on their own!’ “Everyone comes to me with questions about how to do the simplest tasks!” Do these complaints sound familiar? Too many dentists I talk to tell me it is impossible for them to focus on growing their practice because they are constantly interrupted by team members … Read more
No amount of money is worth working in a negative environment. Peter Barry, Practice Success Coach, shares how you can create a fulfilling workplace for your staff that will build loyalty and cohesion. Subscribe to Oral Health’s weekly e-newsletter to have the latest episode delivered straight to your inbox every week!
Taking the time to “plan your next step” in so many facets of life is always a challenge…and dentistry is no exception. As dentists, it often feels like your day is an endless procession of moving from one patient to the next faster than the eye can see. To keep up, you just have to … Read more
One of the greatest assessments we use to measure “a life well lived” comes from the question “what would people want to say on your epitaph?” Would they say you were kind to others? That you were respectful and generous with your time? That you displayed empathy to others? Would they say you truly lived … Read more
As a Dental CEO, decision-making is one of your primary responsibilities. No matter how collaborative a work environment you create (and you should create a collaborative work environment!), as the CEO, you are the ultimate decision-maker. Personally, I believe that great decisions are most likely to come from a CEO who understands the balance between … Read more
I work as a university business professor and executive educator. Part of my job is to help others view organizational life from a broad range of perspectives. My classes focus on how an analysis of an organizational issue must be broad, insightful, and focused on helping. My participants and students work on developing the skills to … Read more
The Senior Dental Leaders Program, formerly managed by the Global Child Dental Fund (GCDF), has been rebranded as the ICD Global Oral Health Leadership (GOHL) Institute, according to an announcement by Henry Schein on August 27. The International College of Dentists (ICD), which oversees the rebranded institute, is poised to advance the development of emerging … Read more
If you have been following my blog for a while, you will notice that I place a great deal of emphasis on encouraging dentists to approach their business with the mindset of a CEO. I want to move you from thinking like a small business owner so you can better embrace the power of your … Read more
Really getting the business side of your practice operating effectively does take time. You need time to plan, strategize, and execute the decisions that will drive your business forward. Unfortunately, most dentists I speak with constantly tell me time is the one commodity they never can find enough of. I get that! As a practice … Read more
Perhaps I am a bit of a contrarian, but when it comes to leadership today, I feel like I go against the grain – just a little! To me, leadership is not about things like empathy, empowerment or emotional intelligence (the Three “E’s”). Instead, leadership is about performance. The role of a leader is to … Read more
When you run a dental practice, the safety of your patients and employees must be your top concern. Your patients should leave your office feeling better than when they went in, and your staff needs to know that their well-being is your priority. You need to create a culture of safety where everyone feels comfortable … Read more
One of the hardest aspects of being the CEO of your practice is holding your team accountable when their performance is not measuring up. Let’s face it, most dentists try to be people pleasers. They want their patients to be happy. They want their team to be happy. Conversations about poor performance can be hard. … Read more
Building momentum within your team is one of the greatest challenges you will face as a dental CEO. You will not achieve the success you want in your practice if you think you can do it on your own. Having that team behind you is vital and you want that team to be enthusiastic about … Read more
New practice owners and seasoned ones alike should assess and act on these fundamentals.