Who Is the Boss in your Dental Practice?
What is your answer to this?
What will be the answer of your team members?
In our clinic, everyone knows the patient is the BOSS.
I am just an accountant who transfers each one their due!
With this thought in mind, the team will always try to serve their best to the patient.
Some simple mind-set paradigm shifts like these help you as a practice owner to make the functioning of a team seamless.
As a practice owner you wear different hats at different times.
- Dentist
- Manager
- Technician
- Accountant
- Teacher
- Mechanic
- Social Media Manager
- Relationship Manager
- Data Analyst
For your team to work efficiently and in alignment with your vision, one needs to keep the mind-set of team members right.
Sharing these simple tips which have helped us and can be of use for you too.
“Think of keeping your team -
Energised
Entertained
Empowered.”
When the practice owner wears a hat of the team leader, he/she can do the following to make a winning team:
1. ENERGIZE
Energy as a law flows from high to low.
So it is the duty of the leader to stay high spirited at all times because the energy of the leader is the energy of the team - just like an engine gives direction and pumps fuel to the train.
1. Motivate
Stay motivated yourself which will inspire your team.
2. Learn
Show them how to be a learner all through and it's fine to falter.
Making mistakes is fine but make new ones each time!
Learn from old ones and try not to repeat.
3. Apologise
It needs courage to do so.
When you apologise it shows them it's fine to apologize.
Few of the ways adopted by us to energise:
- WhatsApp group of the team.
- Sharing inspiring videos in the local language.
- Team shares morning messages as this will activate their minds to look for something good and new each day.
- Start office mornings with a team prayer.
- Fridays are fixed for 20 minutes of meditation just before lunch break.
Feel free to share in the comment section below this article, if you are already following any of these or your own unique ways of energizing your teams.
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