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    • How do you set rates of pay?
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    • The first steps in gaining financial control of your practice and your life – The spreadsheet
    • The third step in gaining financial control of your practice and your life – associate profitability
    • The second step in gaining financial control of your practice and your life – professional budgets
    • The fifth step in gaining control of your practice and your life – “what if” games
  • Business
    • The 9 characteristics of an effective dental leader
    • 12 Predictions for the future of dentistry
    • The 12 greatest lessons I’ve ever learned
  • Marketing
    • The Top 6 rules for developing Strategic Alliance Partnerships
    • What do to about a gappy appointment book
    • Asking for patient referrals
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    • Grading patients in rural communities
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    • Employee benefits dentistry – a proposal
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      • Sonya Hamill mini-business card
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    • The role of the hygienist
    • The 9 ‘ates of building a championship support team
    • The top 10 tips for employing your next practice manager
    • The Age of the Dental Therapist
    • Interview questions
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    • The Business Manager job description
    • Draft associate contract
    • Business manager recruitment letter
    • The Dental Business Manager – specification
  • Operational Control
    • Zoning the appointment book
  • Customer Service
    • Conflict Resolution – dealing with difficult patients
    • Children and dentistry
    • The top 10 tips for a Patient Journey Champion
    • The Smile Check
    • The Great Christmas Holiday Debate
    • The Smile Check for hygienists
    • The end of treatment letter
    • Promises and expectations
    • The Patient Journey – starting from scratch
    • The Welcome Pack letter – to existing patients
    • Reactivating dormant patients
    • Letter to transfer maintenance away from the principal

Personal and professional mission statements

MISSION STATEMENT FROM CHRIS BARROW

  • To be a catalyst, inspiring others to action as they identify their mission, roles and goals.
  • To be ever mindful that between stimulus and response there is only freedom to choose.
  • In my role as a family leader
    • to act worthily as a partner, best friend and lover.
  • As a hero, teacher and role model to my children -
    • To be the wind under their wings.
    • To keep all of my promises.
    • To provide unconditional love and adequate time for each of them.
  • In my role as entrepreneur
    • To remember that I can gain nothing in my professional life without giving something first.
    • To have earned the respect of my strategic partners and my peers.
    • To be a leader, guide and role model to my support team.
  • In my role as a coach
    • To have assisted clients in establishing their own consuming vision of the future
    • To translate that vision into goals and to have established a plan of action.
    • To be a principal trusted adviser and friend.
    • To become an internationally recognized speaker, writer and mentor who has designed a template that clients can use to create permanent transformation in their professional and personal lives.
  • In my role as a friend
    • To be pro-active in my concern.
    • To be constant and unconditional in my friendship.
  • In my role as a community volunteer
    • To devote a portion of my time and energy to help those in need.
  • For myself
    • To maintain fitness and health through nutrition, sleep, exercise and meditation.
    • Through exercise to maintain strength, agility, flexibility and endurance
    • To focus on my unique abilities and to effectively delegate (but not abdicate) all else.
    • To design and create a perfect life and environment.
    • To achieve and maintain financial independence, to eliminate stress and to share many years of peace, prosperity and balance with those I love.

MISSION STATEMENT for COACH BARROW

  • In our role as business coaches -
    • To assist clients in the implementation of the eight key strategies.
    • To give our clients:
      • Vision and insight
      • Constructive feedback
      • Advice and counsel
      • Critical analysis
      • Support and encouragement
      • Crisis or failure control plans
      • a solid role model
      • Self-confidence and a stronger self-esteem
      • a safe area to discuss ideas and options
  • In our role as employers
    • to create and maintain a self-motivated championship support team who consider working with us to be the inspiration to fulfill their own potential.
    • To continually ask for and listen to suggestions as to how we can improve.
    • To share generously in our present and future profits.
    • To constantly search for and acquire new skills and technologies that will add value to our client and staff relationships.
    • To ensure that through prudent financial management my business remains debt free, financially strong and thus creates security for both clients and support team.
  • In our role as networkers -
    • to continually introduce clients to a carefully selected panel of specialists in other professions who can work with us to fulfill our mission statement and our clients’ goals.
  • In our role as community volunteers -
    • to be willing to sponsor clients, contacts and support team in their charitable endeavors when requested.
    • To become involved in our own charitable activity and to be willing to devote our time and talents to help others when requested on a pro bono basis.
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2 Responses to “Personal and professional mission statements”

  1. Fred J.K. Yauw says:
    August 29, 2008 at 8:06 am

    Dear Chris,

    I attended one of your lectures in Antwerp on 22-05-08, which I really have enjoyed. First, I decided to sell my practice in about 3 to 4 years. Can you guide me with this? Second, I need to buy a product (Dentomycin) which is delivered by Blackwell Supplies, in Gillingham Business Park, Kent. Unfortunately, since several months ago, this product can only be bought by a UK registered dentist. Can you help me with this too?

    Thank you in advance,

    Greetings, Fred

  2. Graham Leck says:
    December 16, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    Hi Chris

    Thanks for the inspiration you have given us over the years. You have certainly achieved your mission with us. We managed to get on the main Crossfit.com website on Sunday with “Fran”, the classic crossfit workout. Our website was subsequently snowed under and stopped due to insufficient bandwidth. Thankfully that was quickly sorted, and we had 6000 hits. It may not mean we can retire from dentistry any sooner, but makes the journey more enjoyable.
    “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
    Aldous Huxley

    Thanks again
    Graham and Lorraine

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