Having the right team will support you to be able to focus on your dentistry while they take care of the day to day in the office. Having team players who are professional and who share in your vision and your goals is the key for taking your practice from good to great and building a great reputation and loyal patients who recommend you to their friends and family.   In this show I share my tips and tools to having a top class team and a great work environment.

A strong, clear vision for your dental office, makes it hard to get nudged off course, as you notice immediately when things aren’t how you want them to be.    Sharing your vision regularly with your team helps you to know what is healthy for your business and what is not. It allows you to instantly recognise when ‘decay’ has set in. Having a clear vision steers you back on track and holds everything together so that you and your dental office can function really well.   In this show I share tips to help you develop your vision and explore your why so you can have the dental practice you’d always dreamed of.

Put yourself in your patients’ shoes - they are often feeling nervous and anxious and going to be in some level of discomfort and very vulnerable. How you and your team are with them and how you make them feel will determine whether they keep coming back to you or not. If  you  can make them feel valued and special they will keep coming back to  you.   Here are some of my simple tips that you can use in your office to improve your customer service, wow your patients and turn them into raving fans.

Marketing or advertising your dental office does not need to be costly or time consuming. But without it, it will be costing you money, if people don’t know you exist and what you offer then you are wasting opportunities to bring in new patients to your office.    Let’s look at how to improve your marketing and get it laser focused to bring you the type of patients you want and need.

In this episode Dr Rachel Hall The Cheeky Dentist explores:

• How can we take this situation and come out on top
• What opportunities are there for you practice
• What approach do we need to take to generate new dental patients
• How to plan for the worst case scenario so you always have  a plan A, B and C
• What you can do to stand out from the crowd
• Pivoting your practice

As dentist we have amazing attention to detail and that’s what makes you so great as clinician. But that attention to detail may be getting in your way when it comes to being the CEO and owner of your dental business. In this episode I explain why its important to zoom out and look at the bigger picture when it comes to running your dental practice.

Today I’m going to share the 8 top mistakes I see dentists making when it comes to running their practice as a business. And yes I will admit I’ve made a few of these errors in my time too. I’ll also tell you how to avoid them so you can save time, money and a a whole lot of stress.

If you don’t want a stressful chaotic dental practice then you must get organised, systemised, communicate well, have a plan and an ideal day vision and then to the best of your ability work as a team to make that happen. In this episode of The Cheeky Dentist Show I’ll guide you through the steps to create a dental practice that  is calm and fun to work in.

To get to and through dental school you were an over achiever you knew how to study and work hard get it all done and then some. But this pushing and over reaching can carry on through out your dental career and lead to burnout. Burnout is serious - in this episode I talk about how dentists end up with burnout and how to prevent it before it happens.

Happiness is an inside job. You are totally in charge of how you feel and how you either respond or react to life. If you can work on feeling more at one with yourself inside this will have a great impact on your life and your dental office. Listen to the show to find out what I mean.