This week’s blog post comes from the Ask Sabri column in our magazine, with a reader question that is relevant to many dental practices right now: Q: Help! We can’t find any good employees. We’ve been trying to hire, but people either are asking for too much money, don’t last long, or never find their footing on the job. What…
The success of a dental practice heavily relies on various factors, including effective marketing, quality dental care, and a skilled team. Among the essential team members, the dental practice receptionist plays a pivotal role in converting potential patients into actual appointments. A while back, I had a great discussion with Sabri Blumberg on our podcast, Dental Business RX, about “A…
Do you have a call recording system? If so, do you actually listen to the calls? And if you do listen to them, do you have a way of judging these calls and providing training to correct/improve them? Here at MGE, we have placed over 750 mystery phone calls to dental offices. This is a service we provide where we…
Q: I’m having a hard time keeping good employees in my practice. How can I minimize staff turnover? A: Thank you for your question! Especially in today’s labor market with more job-hopping than ever, this is an important topic. In any business, regardless of what that business is, you are always going to have some amount of staff turnover. The…
Typically, the receptionist position is known as an “entry-level” position. The problem with dubbing it as “entry-level” is that it gives a false idea that the receptionist position isn’t as important as other jobs in the practice—and this simply isn’t true. The receptionist is one of the most important jobs in the practice! All the money you put towards advertising…
You hire new staff and they seem to be doing okay…and then they don’t do so well, so you let them go, and then you repeat the cycle. Or you hire new staff and they seem to be doing well… then they give you their two weeks’ notice, and you repeat the cycle. High turnover is more common these days,…
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