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– Be more efficient
– Have more fun
– Improve doctor and team communications
– Eliminate frustration
– And make your life easier!
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New episodes every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Dr. Jesse Green is back on the podcast to share more real-life experiences of a dentist. In this episode, Dr. Green shares with Kiera how to move your practice from being profitable to scalable. He shares specific insight about:
How to become a training institution
How to best back away from the business
And how to overcome the fear of giving over your practice
It may be a hard pill to swallow, stepping back into a role where you're no longer the primary profit generator, but Dr. Green shares how other doctors of all shapes and mindsets have managed to do so.
About Dr. Green: Author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Dr. Jesse Green is a leading dental business coach. He established Savvy Dentist to support dentists to develop financial intelligence, have more time and work less, create high performance teams, and master the art of patient flow.
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Listen to episode 414, How To Be a Savvy Dentist
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What drives you? What motivates you? Do you feel valued at your job?
If you want a solid culture in your practice, you need solid relationships, where people feel like they're truly an important part of the work family. Kiera shares Tony Robbins' six human needs, and how to meet your team members' individual ones. Just imagine how spectacular your work culture will be if everyone's needs are being met!
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Is your practice struggling with the Great Resignation of 2021? Have no fear — the Dental A-Team is here! In this episode, Kiera gets specific on the steps you need to take to hire the best of the best, and in the best way possible. She touches on ...
Assessing your culture
Double-checking your onboarding process
Getting serious about hiring
The DAT has an entire course on hiring, and we have a coupon code for you to use! Use code "hire7" to get a screamin' deal!
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Kiera is joined by Dr. Dave Moghadam! This episode is a treasure trove of info. Dr. Moghadam shares his experience with smaller practices merging into his larger one. His journey is an unconventional one, and he has plenty of advice based on what he went through. The two talk about …
The pros and cons of bringing in a retiring doctor or buying charts (and Dr. Moghadam's preference)
How to navigate new patients from an old doctor
And how to get practices to merge with you in the first place
About Dr. Moghadam:
Dr. Moghadam was born and raised in Morris County, New Jersey. After completing his undergraduate degree at Rutgers University in New Brunswick he went on to obtain his Doctor of Dental Medicine Degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry (UMDNJ) in Newark. During his time at UMDNJ, Dr. Moghadam received extensive recognition for his outstanding leadership, academic and clinical aptitude, and dedication to the profession. Some of his achievements include receiving the William R. Cinotti Endowed Scholarship and the American Student Dental Association Award of Excellence, as well as induction into the Gamma Pi Delta Prosthodontic Honor Society.
He then chose to complete a General Practice Residency at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick where he received advanced training with an emphasis on comprehensive restorative treatment, endodontics, and implant dentistry. Dr. Moghadam is also an active member of the American Dental Association, the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Dental Associations, the Academy of General Dentistry, and the American Academy of Implant Dentistry. He has had the honor of serving as a member of both the Board of Trustees and the Board of Delegates for the New Jersey Dental Association. Dr. Moghadam has attended numerous continuing education courses and strongly believes that furthering his knowledge and expertise is essential to providing his patients with the level of care and respect that they deserve.
Episode resources:
Check out Dr. Dave Moghadam's practice
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Does the title have your eyebrows raised? We know it's an interesting question, but our answer is YES. Too many new patients can be bad, bad, bad for your business. Kiera explains why in this episode, sharing what signs mean you have too many new patients:
Are you maximizing the space and time you're currently in?
Are the new patients you're getting ones you actually want?
And more!
Episode resources:
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Listen, we know your days are busy. Ours are too! But this episode helps you work through the craziness of life to start getting the important stuff done. Kiera shares four tips to master time:
Set one to three intentions each week that you must get done
Block out time for those items
Accept the whirlwind of life, and challenge it
Review the good and the bad, and do it again the following week!
Episode resources:
Reach out to Kiera (to get her meditation secrets!)
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Listen to episode 14, Are you a master of time, or is time a master of you?
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Dr. Erin Elliott is on the podcast! Dr. Elliott is an absolute pro in the sleep apnea world, and in this episode she and Kiera discuss comprehensive dentistry and how to best introduce new skills and treatments into an office.
When it comes to teaching your team about a new treatment, Dr. Elliott recommends the following:
Find people's strengths and match tasks with those strengths
Avoid micromanaging
Remove people who don't fit
Being overwhelmed when incorporating a new treatment is fairly common, so Dr. Elliott and Kiera also discuss how to avoid the craziness. Learn how long it'll take to incorporate the new treatment, what team champions are, and ideal third-party medical billing companies.
Episode resources:
Learn more about Dr. Elliott
Take Dr. Elliott's sleep apnea course
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Is your team still trying to overcome the Covid Crank? Or just continual bad moods in the workplace? Kiera is here to give tips on improving the culture in your office. She suggests defining the type of culture you want to have, modeling your business after other ones that you look up to, and adding the following to your morning huddles:
Motivation Monday
Tip Tuesday
Core Value Shoutout (Wednesday)
Thankful Thursday
Fun Friday
If you want a positive vibe in the workplace, you need to infuse it.
Episode resources:
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Continuing on our journey of meetings this month … It's time to talk quarterly meetings! Kiera shares the basic blueprints for setting up these meetings, basically 90-day sprint plans, that will continually align your team.
Preschedule the meetings
Build an issues list
Revisit the focus of the company
Review the previous quarter
Build out what must happen next
The folks who should be at these meetings are your leaders, department heads, doctors, owners. Kiera also mentions specific books attendees should read in advance of quarterly meetings.
Does setting up these meetings feel daunting? Not to worry, the Dental A-Team can help you! We'll visit your office quarterly to get these meetings going, and eventually you'll be ready to do them on your own!
Episode resources:
Reach out to Kiera
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Listen to episode 428: Are Your Morning Huddles "Womp-Womp-Womp"?
Listen to episode 431: Is Your Team Aligned?
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Kiera's here to share how to verify insurance the tried and true, Dental A-Team-approved way! DAT consultants have been to a lot of offices lately, and have seen that many teams are fumbling over the basics, like insurance verification. Kiera shares how to shift to membership plans, cut down on time while verifying, clustering plans, and why calling insurance companies is not the way to go.
We even have an insurance verification form for you to use in your practice!
Episode resources:
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Listen to episode 204: You Need to Put This in Place
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