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Staff Conflict? What Can You Do?

Sep 28th, 2016

Managing staff while spending most of your time chairside is no easy task. And when things get out of hand, you may begin to feel more like a babysitter than a business owner. That said, managing your staff properly is vitally important, as the combined effort of the entire team is what generates all of the practice’s production and income.…

Customer Service

Running Behind Schedule in Your Dental Office? Here’s How to Fix it!

by Sabri Blumberg

Sep 21st, 2016

From a business perspective, how big of a “deal” is it to run behind schedule? I’ve seen some doctors become so accustomed to running behind that, after a while, it seems like a normal part of doing business. If you have a good scheduling system, it should be very rare to make patients wait longer than 5-10 minutes. (See the…

Practice Management

Implementation: Making New Ideas Stick in Your Office!

by John Austin

Sep 14th, 2016

It goes like this… You hear about a great new idea. Maybe it’s a referral program, a recall program, or a cool customer service procedure. Doesn’t matter, all you know is you want to implement this idea in your practice. So, you bring it to your team. Your excitement is infectious. They’re behind you on it and implementation begins. After…

Leadership

Grading Employee Performance

by Sabri Blumberg

Sep 7th, 2016

How can you tell if an employee is a good fit for your office? For that matter, is there a specific criterion you should use when deciding who to promote and who to let go? By survey, personnel-related issues are among the three primary sources of stress for employers. And, while I’m not an employment attorney and therefore cannot apprise…

Overhead and Profitability

Sharing “the Numbers” with Your Staff

by Jeffrey M. Blumberg

Aug 31st, 2016

Should you share office production and collection numbers with ALL of your staff? What are the benefits? And are there any drawbacks to this position? Doesn’t it make your staff only care about the numbers—or worse, ask for more money? And finally, how much of the “numbers” should you share with them? It’s not uncommon for me to hear questions…

Case Acceptance

How to Turn Emergency New Patients into Great Long-Term Patients

by Leslie Pasco, DDS

Aug 24th, 2016

Leslie Pasco, DDS We’ve all experienced this: an emergency new patient clamors to be seen immediately, comes in for a brief visit to get out of pain, is difficult to work on…and then we never see or hear from them again. As a result, it can be tempting to assume that emergency new patients all neglect their dental health and…

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Staff Conflict? What Can You Do?

Running Behind Schedule in Your Dental Office? Here’s How to Fix it!

Implementation: Making New Ideas Stick in Your Office!

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Sharing “the Numbers” with Your Staff

How to Turn Emergency New Patients into Great Long-Term Patients

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Staff Conflict? What Can You Do?

Running Behind Schedule in Your Dental Office? Here’s How to Fix it!

Implementation: Making New Ideas Stick in Your Office!

Grading Employee Performance

Sharing “the Numbers” with Your Staff

How to Turn Emergency New Patients into Great Long-Term Patients

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