Last updated on November 4th, 2025 at 04:01 pm When a long-term, productive staff member leaves your practice (whatever the reason), what do you actually lose? Beyond their ongoing (and potential future) contributions to your practice, you’ve also lost: Years of experiential track and time spent working together with the rest of the team (i.e. everything they knew how to…
Last updated on November 18th, 2025 at 08:24 pm “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci Just because there is a lot to know about management, does not make it a “complex” subject. It really isn’t. For that matter, when addressing a business (or really any) issue, if I find the “solution” to be too “complex”—I know I’m…
Last updated on November 13th, 2025 at 02:43 pm This article is from the Ask Sabri column, where dental clients and readers can ask questions to our Deputy COO, Sabri Blumberg, about their dental practice. Have your own question? Submit your question to sabrib@mgeonline.com Q: We’re having problems with consistency in our practice. It seems that one month is up…
Last updated on November 4th, 2025 at 04:51 pm How do you know if you’ve hired the right employee? Very often I see doctors (or office managers) virtually neurotic about hiring the right people. Scouring resumes, doing interviews, using all the tricks they know or have read about to make sure—absolutely sure—they have found the “right” person. Obviously, hiring someone…
Last updated on November 10th, 2025 at 05:26 pm I got around to writing this article in a roundabout way. For MGE clients, it’s pretty well accepted (and understood) that they need an Office Manager. They also have an idea of what an Office Manager is supposed to do and so on. Outside of MGE’s orbit, the title “Office Manager,”…
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.…