Category Archives: Business Advice

*Good Feedback Is Based on Facts, Not Your Opinion* When you’re asked to give feedback on a fellow employee, you want it to be useful. But unless you connect it to what matters to them — and separate it from your personal beliefs and preferences — they won’t be able to act on it. Emphasize

1) Create a Treatment Co ordinator for handling treatment plans and presentations . She does everything for you ( non clinical ) reports , letters , ppt, photos , presentation etc. 2) Create a Clinical coordinator for doing preliminary jobs for you like pre screening examination, study model impressions , photographs , treatment presentation on

Why should be more consultation time ��given to your Patient ???? – As Dentist we feel that everything that we explain is easily understood by our patients. However… People take time…. Time to understand , time to register all the new information. – People take time to make decision… As they may not be the

Thought for Monday : Dental Service and products pricing is NOT dependent on neighbouring dentist price list ! It’s built on the facts of : Your Clinician fees Your Actual victuals Your Operating Costs Your Profits for Business Your Value additions Have you done your homework ? 🙂 *LEARN SHARE GROW* Average rating

Thought for the day : Successful entrepreneurs make a very common mistake – They start a second clinic after the first is successful and expect the same results ! Blunder !!! Success story does not happen…. again .. They make one common mistake of replicating everything exactly as clinic one … EXCEPT one … They

Thought for the day : You get up in the morning .. You look at the watch … You have a discomfort in your head … Discomfort about going to work … Discomfort about doing the same job as yesterday again… Discomfort of not following your passion but something else… When you come to cross

Incorporate autoclaving and pouching of instruments as mandatory. Freshen up the colour and cleanliness of the clinic periodically and take it to next level. Patients appreciate a positive change. *LEARN SHARE GROW* Average rating

Quick tip for the day Stop paper records – Go digital and IT based ( softwares ) for anything and everything possible. Learn Dental Implants. It’s a mandatory skill set. *LEARN SHARE GROW* Average rating

My Clinic Website… We have always heard, experienced and believed that the best way of marketing is THE WORD OF MOUTH… ironic, that we are dentists. Correct me if I am wrong but people still check the web about something or someone they have been recommended (word of mouth ) before actually contacting. So word

Ask for testimonials in written , Videos and pictures from patients so as to use in your promotion to community. Master layering techniques in composite dentistry and start offering a higher end option to all patients at a price slightly more than your routine fillings. *LEARN SHARE GROW* Average rating

Things to do today 1) Revisit your vision / Aims / missions. 2) Prioritise the list. 3) Only do what your strengths are ! 4) Delete stuff which is not required. 5) Create Teams for different projects and give directions. 6) Delegate / Direct / Discipline / Deliver. *LEARN SHARE GROW* Average rating

Thought for the day : Be ready for days when your team needs support. They are top class in performance at work however some days there are things which come up causing change in priorities. The final ownership is with you. You need to drive the ship forwards. Be Ready to take charge if need

*Motivation makes or breaks the game* ����Finding motivation is a basic human behaviour and executing it to perfection is the passion we bring in it. We would see plenty of people who were not that famous when they were our colleagues in college but have come up with some extra ordinary hard work passion and

Fear ���������� Fear is just a line or groove in the brain. But the most difficult line to cross. One who owns the fear sees this groove very deep like a Valley of Fire. This line is the decisive factor for your personality .Each individual is shaped up according to fears and anxieties that he

*The Power of Listening* " Seek first to understand ,then to be understood ." _-Stephen Covey_ Great leaders are great communicators, and communication is not a one way street- it requires *Active Listening*. Listen to your :- _- Patients_ : To understand their needs better. _-Loved ones_ : To build healthy relationships _Team Members_: When

We have always heard, experienced and believed that the best way of marketing is THE WORD OF MOUTH… ironic, that we are dentists . Correct me if I am wrong but people still check the web about something or someone they have been recommended (word of mouth ) before actually contacting. So word of mouth

Have you been in a situation where things don’t work to the plan…? Have you been in a situation when things don’t work to plan? AND You blame the “circumstances “, your luck factor ” and ” people around you “! I read a powerful statement yesterday: HAPPENED” – IS 10% OF THE STORY …

HOCUS POCUS Hocus pocus is used by magicians (means endless nonsense talk) to divert attention so that they can do the trick. Focus on other hand is to not let the attention get diverted from the task in hand. Mind is wired to have problem centric thoughts. It thinks what can all can go wrong

*YOU matters, I doesn’t* In a conversation with any person the biggest problem we face is to how to make it interesting and get the person genuinely and happily involved in the conversation. Normally while talking to a patient we talk as if self obsessed, using the word I , Me, My Skills, My Practice