Author: Barbara Maddy

How often do we go to work, go home, do our routines, wandering here and there, wondering why we are wandering?

Take work, for example. Do you wander at work, wondering why you are there? Perhaps don’t really know the WHY in what you do? If you knew the why, would you wander less, wonder less?

If you are a dental assistant, have you ever thought that a procedure could not be done as efficiently without your help; your anticipation; your knowledge? You are a vital cog in the wheel of dentistry.

Take a hygienist; do you feel you provide value above insurance coverage for your patient? Have you ever wondered how you can do this? Do you remember from your training that the pH of the oral cavity can not protect exposed root surfaces or any residual effects of dry mouth from daily medicines? Dentistry provides healing medicines today, somewhat new to the industry. AND, fluorides have the ability to heal incipient lesions. HEAL LESIONS. This is amazing! When was the last time you used this dialogue to provide a higher level of health to the patients you treat?

Front office, have you ever wondered how the back office would function without you? How the schedule would get filled and stay filled? How the revenue you collect will provide a paycheck for your team? Do you ever wonder if anyone really knows how much you multitask at the front?

Doc’s – when was the last time you wandered into your office with full intention to thank your team. Thank them for what they do for your business? Thank them for the vital role they play in the growth and day to day of your operation?

It takes a village to run a dental practice. Are you wandering aimlessly and daily wondering why you do what you do OR are you willing to do something different to get a different result and end your wandering? Call your AMP coach. We are here to get you through the wandering in life so you can know your purpose in what you do day to day! Then your business escalates!

Wander or wonder…. Which is you?

When I sat and listened to the TV show called Mind Games and heard Darren say that it’s not about who you are today, it’s about where you go and what you are going to do about your life that I thought about all the times I hear dentists say “I just want to be a dentist and do the clinical work I was trained to do”.  Is this something you find yourself saying in your dental practice?

I believe that we can get to the heart of a very important struggle with many offices when you take the time to think about these two things in tandem.  What does it mean to be a great dentist and what are you going to do change in yourself and in your practice to make it happen before its too late. Being a great dentist is so much more then just being a great clinician.

It means that you need to build rapport with your team and your colleagues as well as be able to communicate the value of your work effectively.
It means that you need to be the leader that your team needs and you also need to be be able to plan and adjust to your offices needs (for example, you need to be able to course correct from time to time when it comes to the metrics of your office).

Seeing how our profession is changing so rapidly and every year brings so many new challenges I would like to encourage you to consider all of these things if you want to have a thriving office.  If you want to have a thriving office the mentality of “just being a dentist” simply can not be there.  I would like to encourage anyone who thinks about their practice and all the great opportunities it can bring but yet says to themselves at the same time “I just want to be a dentist” to think about all the things that are needed to have a thriving practice.

It goes way beyond great clinical skills.  What are you willing to do to get it?

Don’t let the mind games of achieving it get in your way!

Darren Kaberna will explain this in further detail, click the video below for the AMP TV show!