Dental Strategic Planning | Strategy for Dental Practice

#1 Strategic Planning

Develop an exciting three year vision for your practice and your life.

Learn your history to date
Review your current practice
- Organisational structure
- Finances
- Brand and marketing
- Customer relationship management
- Operational systems
- Location and physical facilities
In the case of a new practice
- Determine whether a purchase or squat will be more suitable
Develop a 3-year vision for your practice and your life
Create a 12-month plan of action
Agree 90-day goals
Determine your "end game" - how you will ultimately exit from your business

Case Study

Elmsleigh House Dental Clinic, Farnham

I have been working with Tim Thackrah and the team at Elmsleigh House for over seven years now and it has been fascinating to see the way the practice has doubled in size and simultaneously increased the management team from one to six people.

Tim is a classic example of a visionary business leader who wants to fulfill his full potential both in terms of clinical excellence and also the evolution of one of the most celebrated specialist referral centres in the United Kingdom.

At all stages in this process I have worked very closely with Tim in helping him to evolve and adapt his business vision to changing circumstances both internally within dentistry and also externally within the market place as a whole.

Tim has been one of my Elite clients for many years now and I particularly enjoy attending the quarterly management meetings where individual members of the management team report back on financial systems, marketing systems, patient journey systems, clinical and non clinical operating systems and human resources.

By creating a superbly qualified management team around him Tim has ultimately achieved his objective of delivering 100 days per year of dentistry, taking plenty of holidays and spending the rest of his time as the leader of the management team.

This is a classic example of strategic planning at its finest.

Testimonial

Tim Thackrah, Elmsleigh House Dental

Chris has been working with me and the team at Elmsleigh House for over 7 years now. We have used Chris in various roles over this time ranging from running team training days, heading up whole team meetings, management meetings and one to one strategic coaching for me and other team members. Chris’s input has been invaluable in helping me focus on the direction and strategies necessary to help grow the business and free up more of my time over this period. Chris has also provided an invaluable sounding board for different ideas over this time and helped us improve the capabilities of the business. He has an uncanny knack in getting right to the main issues and helping us develop clear ways of successfully moving through sometimes very difficult problems and roadblocks. I would have no hesitation to recommend Chris to any dental business owner who is serious about improving their business.