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Success with a new associate starts with preparation — align your team, patients, facility, mentorship, and long-term plan before Day 1.

Do You Have ‘the Fire’ Within? People like to believe there’s something mysterious or special about how successful dentists and their teams reach the highest level. It really comes down to the fact that they simply engage at that level. They have a sense of their possibilities and, more importantly, they have a sense of urgency that…

Does Your Practice Have Black Holes of Accountability? If there’s one gift you can give the members of your team, it’s clarity. Clarity for the overall vision for the practice. Clarity for how they fit into that vision. Clarity for your expectations. Clarity for how their individual success is measured. It’s amazing how whenever an…

Have You Reserved Time for Success? I often talk about the difference between “in-practice” revenue-producing time and “on-practice” clinical and professional development time, and how both are vitally important to success in dentistry. But I often find that when it comes to “in-practice” time, everyone understands the need for a rigorously maintained schedule, while the…

Are You Sitting on a Gold Mine? Previously, I wrote about the importance of improving the tangible assets of your practice in the years leading up to selling. But what about your intangible assets? Most dentists I know are sitting on a gold mine of untapped possibilities. It’s not because of incompetence; on the contrary, it’s usually a case…

A Good Reason To Make Pre-Retirement Investments in Your Practice Forty years ago, few people outside of IBM had any firsthand interaction with computers. Today, the average teenager has more computing power in his iPod than was used in the Apollo moon missions. We’ve come a long way in a generation. We’re seeing that digital…

Strong leaders recognize every team member’s unique strengths and motivations, shaping their approach so each person thrives.