I think we would all agree that one of our main goals in our office is to build a fully functioning team that serves our patients well. We've discussed the huge benefits in previous posts: Personal satisfaction for team members Everyone can succeed Minimal turnover Minimal rehiring and retraining costs Much less stress on everyone Years [...]
Years ago, one of our employees - an outgoing, high energy, vivacious, super people-person type, came to me one day with these words, "If I have to Go Back There again, I'm going to lose my mind!!" "Go Back There" referred to the fact that she was assigned Lab Duty - so she sat in the far [...]
In our family, we tend to have very strong personalities. So my first response to learning about the DISC was that people were mostly just one Style; so if I got to know those four Basic Styles, I could understand most folks. However, "flash of truth" - people are a LOT more complicated than that!! As [...]
Would you believe that the way you prefer to put together a piece of IKEA furniture can reveal your DISC Style? And also can reveal how you prefer to accomplish a task? Special thanks to Extended DISC, Inc., for this example... which I find fascinating. I am a BIG fan of IKEA, but my children who [...]
Let's take the first steps of making this the year you minimize turnover, hire the ideal people, put them in their ideal places, and have a Fully Functioning Team! Each of these facets requires a basic understanding of DISC Styles in the Tried-and-True System I'm going to share with you in future blog posts. In our orthodontic [...]
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 [...]
