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Appreciation as a Retention Tool
What is the primary reason your employees even think about
Learning Resources
Published in Our Bite-Sized Practice Management Newsletter
The Dental Wage Planner Reduces Your Stress about Wages
- Understand your true payroll costs
- Identify compensation inequities
- Measure compensation against your production and collection
- See if you can afford raises or new employees
Hygiene
Using the Intake Call to Attract Hygiene Patients
What’s the problem in these common scenarios? 1. A potential
Hiring
Using Job Descriptions to Improve Employee Performance
In my last article, How to Use the Job Description in the Hiring Process, I noted that great job descriptions orientate and evaluate new and veteran team members. When used effectively, job descriptions:
Leadership
Interview with a Certified Financial Planner
It is spring and, of course, many dentists thoughts turn to retirement. While this may not sound as fun as dancing through the tulips, my guest columnist is a Certified Financial Planner CFP® who finds this topic exhilarating. And as you will see, he is also giddy, knowledgeable, thoughtful and inquisitive.
Hiring
How to Use Job Descriptions in the Hiring Process
Job descriptions and job ads are two essential tools used in the hiring and onboarding process. But there is a difference between job descriptions that are written to fill an HR file and job descriptions that are living documents used to set expectations and ground employee performance. In this article, we’ll show you the components of a job description that can assess, orientate and evaluate new and veteran team members.
Emotional intelligence
How To Adapt the Right Mindset for Hiring
You may think your beliefs and attitudes don’t affect your hiring decisions. You may think that given the dearth of good employees, who you end up hiring has more to do with luck and availability then your own mindset. But if you believe this, you will be dead wrong. In this article we will explore what it means to have a growth mindset versus a fixed mindset and why this matters when you embark on the hiring process.
Hiring
Turn Your Team Into a Recruiting Machine
It seems the entire nation is short-staffed. On top of that, recruiting employees can be expensive, time-consuming and frustrating. Replacing an employee can cost 2 ½ times that person’s salary. In our industry, given the dearth of hygienists, the job matchmaking site, Indeed, has been charging $75 for every hygienist resume it sends to a dentist’s inbox, regardless of whether this is a viable candidate.
Hiring
More Hiring Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
In my last article, we examined three common hiring mistakes:
1. Assume experience equals expertise
2. Hiring someone you want to socialize with
3. Hiring when you’re desperate
In this article we tackle the next three mistakes. By avoiding these blunders, you will be to assess your candidates more effectively, match their skills to the job requirements and gain the team’s support and approval for the winning candidate.
Hiring
Six Hiring Mistakes Dentists Make And How You Can Avoid Them
Hiring the wrong person can be expensive. A bad hire can cost your dental practice 2.5 times that person’s salary and even worse, devastate your team’s morale and your practice’s reputation. So how do you avoid hiring the wrong person?
Leadership
Escrow Services and their Value in a Dental Practice Transaction
If you are considering purchasing or selling your practice, utilizing an Escrow company will be an extremely smart decision Here are the benefits of working with an escrow firm and what you will need to consider.
Leadership
What Are You APT to Do?
I recently spoke with a CPA/CFP who has worked with dentists throughout the country hone their financial vision for 20+ years. I asked him to share some insight as to what dentists should be focusing on as they put a capstone on 2021 and game plan for 2022. Below is what he shared:
