I want to ask you a question, actually a series of questions…ready?!
When are you the happiest? Clinically, during the work day, in the zone.
What days do you remember enjoying the most? When you left fulfilled, invigorated, excited and satisfied, not stressed, or frantic.
What type of dentistry do you enjoy the most and want more of? When you feel appreciated, challenged, engaged, and your skills are utilized and you earn what you are worth.
All of these questions should lead to your idea and clarity of what an IDEAL Day looks like. I call it Ideal Day Dentistry. It’s about taking control over and designing the type of days in your workweek that you desire to have.
I have said it before, at home “If Mama ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy.” In the office, “If the Doctor ain’t happy it ain’t ever going to work,”… at least not for the long term.
The number one reason for turnover in Dental Practices – poor leadership, bad management and moody doctors…doctors who aren’t excied about what they are doing.
The number one reason for misdiagnosis – burnt out, unmotivated, distracted doctors.
The number one reason for lack of patient acceptance – low energy practice, lack of enthusiasm for actually making patients healthy, no passion present when you present treatment.
The number one reason for plateaued production, collections, and growth – too busy “going through the motions” to do any real dentistry.
Here’s the cold hard truth…you are falling victim to at least one of these (at least one!), and if you want to assess yourself, you should sit down and without over thinking it rate yourself on a scale from 1 to 10, 1 being the worst (not even showing up) and 10 being the best in the world (couldn’t be better), where do you stand on these 3 critical questions about your practice’s culture, your own personal focus, your TEAM’S daily minute by minute, patient by patient engagement, how about your Patients.
Of course the best question is, no matter whether you are a 2 or a 10, how can we be better, how can we improve even more, how can we make what we do rise up to the potential we know exists.
Next week I’m going to tell you EXACTLY how to ascend yourself to a 10 and beyond. Right now, do the math, take the test, answer these questions.
And then, once you layout your answers ask your team the same questions…here they are again:
When are you the happiest? Clinically, during the work day, in the zone.
What days do you remember enjoying the most? When you left fulfilled, invigorated, excited and satisfied, not stressed, or frantic.
What type of dentistry do you enjoy the most and want more of? When you feel appreciated, challenged, engaged, and your skills are utilized and you earn what you are worth.
Now you have your answers and their answers and then you can sit down and construct your IDEAL DAY DENTISTRY.
Here’s a big secret that’s really not much of a secret at all…
It’s not going to happen by chance.
It’s not going to happen without you knowing what success looks like.
It’s only going to happen if you make room for it, begin with the end in mind, and methodically reverse engineer your days, schedule, and patient experience to cultivate and end up more IDEAL DAYS than not.
If you want to get something out of this and make the most of our time together here every week…participate, do something with it, take action…do nothing, you lose, I’m showing up anyway.
Need help? Want to talk? Value my ‘in-depth’ perspective, vantage point of more successful practices and a wider variety of dentists than anyone else on the planet? Ask away.
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