Would you like this to be the year you go beyond wishing to minimize turnover in your office? Instead- you actually meet the goal of saving yourself the stress and money loss of repeated re-hirings and re-trainings? I want to offer you an excellent, tried-and-true process. I love new beginnings, fresh starts, being able to hit [...]
The Goal - to get from "AAAUUUGGGHHH" to "Ahhhhhh". But when it comes to stress, we all "erase" it in different ways. Before I learned these insights, whenever I was stressed, my tactic was to keep pushing through... don't stop... don't quit... make progress. But I found it only exacerbated the stress and complicated the issues [...]
First, let me say emphatically that I DELIGHT in Christmas! But between our relentless COVID-19 foe and our often-unrealistic expectations of Christmas, there seems to be an inordinate amount of stress in people's lives this year. Just check in with FaceBook or Twitter to see strong emotions and frustrations spilling out of folks everywhere! I know [...]
Last week, I introduced just the tip of the iceberg regarding the DISC Styles. Let's get to know these Styles a bit better this week. I think we would all agree - each person is unique. But somehow when it comes to hiring and placing people in our staff positions in our office, we think if [...]
My first three blogposts focused on the challenges we face as dental professionals regarding staffing our practices. Now I want to start answering the questions I posed. If there is One Magic Key to dealing with hiring and turnover and creating teams who want to stay for the long haul, what is that Key and what does [...]
As we begin to tackle our goal to have a Fully Functioning Team in our office and to overcome the Villain of Turnover, I think it is extremely valuable to look at the Big WHY. WHY should we give time and attention to learn how to put the Ideal Person in the Ideal Place? Does it [...]
