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Dental Coaching-A Dental Blog with a Coaching “Twist”
IDEA: Your attitude is the first thing people notice about you. Typically when I’m checking out at the grocery store the cashier rarely notices me as a person and instead talks over the isle to the next cashier and asks when its time for their break or how long they have been working without a break. I could kick myself every time I ask this question to the cashier: “How is your day going?” Here is the reply damn near every time: “I’ll tell you more in about 35 minutes when I get to go home.” You would think I would be smarter than to ask that stupid question.
QUESTION: What are the attitudes like in your office? When was the last time you did an “attitude check”? Who on your team can’t wait for the day to end so they can go home? If you have this attitude prevelant in your office, what do you intend to do about correcting it? If your team attitude is positive, supportive, and joyful, what can you do to celebrate this excellence?
Dental Coaching–A Dental Blog with a Coaching “Twist”
IDEA: Other people’s pessimism is a great fuel for your success. Have you been around others who dash your ideas or tell you that something is impossible or “you can’t do that”? Think about what happened yesterday in the Super Bowl. New Orleans was picked as the underdog. Look at the outcome–the Saints beat Manning & the Colts 31 to 17. Unexpected? Tell that to Drew Brees and his team.
QUESTION: What is your strategy when others put a “damper” on your brilliant ideas? What do you do to overcome others pessimism? List three things you can do today to reverse any negative thinking you may confront today from patients, your team, or your doctor.
Dental Coaching–A Dental Blog with a Coaching “Twist”
IDEA: Do less, be more! Do you ever find yourself going, going, going? Do you find yourself attempting to DO more things in less and less time? What would it be like if you simply would “BE” in the moment? Take the time to smell the roses…or whatever project or interaction you are currently engaged in doing. My Mac, the infallible Mac, just erased ALL the addresses to ALL my 1,600 contacts on my system. I found myself all flapped and doing all kinds of “stuff.” However, when I paused and centered myself in the moment and allowed myself to “be” I have come up with a simple solution and now I feel more at peace. At least I stopped pulling out my hair.
QUESTION: what can you do to do less and be more? More observant to the miracles around you? Be attentive to your spouse and tell him/her how much you love them. Be grateful as you know someone has bigger challenges than you. Be willing to look at things differently. What do you want to “be” when challenges arise as they will each day? What would be the value if you behaved differently?
Dental Coaching–A Dental Blog with a Coaching “Twist”
IDEA: If you smile at people, they will almost always smile back. Too often when you find yourself at the grocery store, the gas station, or at a professional office the people serving you rarely look up and acknowledge you let-alone-smile at you. What is this all about? It reminds me of this simple fact: “I’m the one with the money and you’re the one who wants it. If you can’t greet me with a smile and common courtesy, I will choose to take my business elsewhere.”
QUESTION: When was the last time you took an inventory of your business to make certain that a courteous smile, by EVERYONE on your team is a part of the uniform? Challenge yourself and your team!
Dental Coaching-A Dental Blog with a Coaching “Twist”
IDEA: Things turn out the best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. In other words, rather than whine and complain, these people figure out a way to turn lemons into lemonade.
QUESTION: What do you do when your schedule goes to hell in a handbag? How do you handle the patient who tells you her tooth has never felt “right” since you treated it? What kinds of conversations can you and your team have to develop strategies to deal with these practice challenges?
Dental Coaching–A Dental Blog with a Coaching “Twist”
Idea: The element of success most important is doing something you love. When I talk to dentists there are a lot of them who no only do not love their career choice, they are adamant about finding something else to do. What’s that all about?
Question: How much do you love what you are doing? If you don’t love what you’re doing what are you willing to do about it? What would it feel like if you could hardly wait to get up every morning (even in a snow storm like today) and go to a career or job you loved?
Dental Coaching–A Dental Blog with a Coaching “Twist”
Coaching is not about “telling” people what to do. Rather it is about asking the questions in such a way that the answers that are resident in you will come to the surface. My tag line is “no one is as smart as all of us” speaks to this concept. When any of us have challenges, major obstacles, strife in our business or life we often feel lost and rudderless…unable to find a solution. Sometimes we feel hopeless and desperate. For my readers, I want you to know I have discovered the answers are found in the questions…and so have my successful clients.
This Blog will be dedicated to posing an idea or comment followed by asking the questions that, if you read the question, ponder it’s meaning, and then answer to yourself or as a comment here…you will discover your amazing brilliance. You will discover ideas from this Blog as well as within yourself that are certain to provide you with a new direction; a new feeling of strength…a confidence; and a much brighter outlook on the success of your business and your life. This Blog is for you and I invite you to become engaged. It’s amazing at what happens when someone takes ACTION.
IDEA: With the power of thought comes the ability to think positively or negatively.
Question(s): What can you do when you find yourself falling into the trap of “stinking thinking”? What have you done in the past that has worked well? How much has your positive thinking added to the success of your business?
Dental Marketing
You were meant to be very different from everyone else. When you think of your business, how are you unique and very different from everyone else?
Dental Education didn’t prepare us for this
In our current economic environment many believe they have no choice. Not entirely so. In Dentistry iQ read my article: How to PERK Up in a Down Economy.
Dental Education with Floss Your Mind
My new weekly electronic newsletter, Floss Your Mind will be launched this week. In the meantime we learned a lot from each other at my amazingly fun 8th Annual Dr. Ron’s Client Appreciation Turkey Night and weekend. Here I was with Trish as we are about to serve our 17 guests.