I get asked a lot: “How do we find and hire high performing hygienist?” Really, the fastest and easiest way to get high performing team members is to develop them. One of the most critical elements in developing high performing hygienist is compensation. This is often the reason why hygienists don’t achieve high levels of productivity consistently. …
What is the best schedule to work?
What’s the biggest debate happening in dentistry right now? Nope, it’s not are electric toothbrushes really better than manual toothbrushes? It actually has nothing to do with oral care. It’s something successful practices are doing, but we get pushback from doctors when suggest they it if they want to increase their production. It’s what is the best shift to work. …
How To Handle Difficult Conversations With Team Members?
While I was working at a large dental partner, there were over 1,600 employees I oversaw, and the issues that landed on my desk were always complicated. By the time these problems got to me, it had alredy been through multiple layers of management that had tried to resolve it. These problems had either festered or were brought up in …
Stop Patients From Canceling Because of the WHO Recomendations
On August 11th, the World Health Organization issued a recomendation that has created a lot of fallout for dental practices. “[Dentists’] procedures involve face-to-face communication and frequent exposure to saliva, blood, and other body fluids and handling sharp instruments,” the new guidance says. “Consequently, they are at high risk of being infected with SARS-CoV-2 or passing the infection to …
The Culture Crisis – Challenges During Reopening
Sadly over the last few months as dental practices reopen since COVID, relationships between dentists and hygienists have been struggling. We are seeing a lack of trust, disappointment worry and stress occuring in our own practices. It could be that we have some work to do in regards to fixing these issues. It may be the dentist and the hygienist …
How to Minimize Appointment Cancelations
You take a quick look at your calendar and see a full day and lots of opportunity. Then you check your email. “Hey, sorry for the late notice, but I need to cancel my appointment” Ugh! Another cancellation! Do you hate it when you get those messages? Patient last minute cancellations and no shows are a money and resource wasting …
Dr. Gordon Christensen Joins Dr. John Meis and Wendy Briggs to Discuss Infection Control and PPE after COVID-19
John: All right. Good morning everybody and welcome to the Blue Diamond Retreat. This is a thrill of a lifetime for me to be here with Wendy and to, with her introduce Dr. Gordon Christensen. I’ve been in dentistry since I was about nine years old and for the last half of that I have been following and studying Dr. …
Dr. John Meis – The Mindset Around Money
On this episode, with Dr. John Meis, he will have you exploring a different mindset around money. We have been internally programmed since we were young about how we feel about money. In this video, you will hear about the need to bring those thoughts and ideas about money back to consciousness. Reevaluating your internal programming with these unconsciousness and …
Why Your Clinician Mindset Might Be Costing You
Do you have the mindset of a clinician? In this episode, Dr. John and Wendy Briggs discuss how that could be costing you! They dive deeper into places where dentist and clinicians sometimes get tripped up on their thinking. One important lesson that you will learn, is the speed-quality ratio. Sometimes, our limited and outdated thinking could be costing the …
How To Align Your Vision To Experience Maximum Momentum
In this important episode, Dr. John Meis and Wendy Briggs sits down to discuss how to align your vision to experience maximum momentum in your practice. They will speak on how aligning your team to your vision is of upmost importance. Once the team is on board with the vision, making sure that you have goals set up to achieve …