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I seem to send clients and delegates slightly loopy when I talk about how often dental teams should congregate and converse. So let me begin by repeating my suggested schedule of meetings:
Daily – the 20-minute morning huddle
Weekly – a 60-minute conversation (during billable hours) to review best bits of the last week. What went right, what went wrong, what can we do to improve?
Monthly – a half-day session to review financial performance, marketing return on investment, new patient conversion stats, clinician productivity, the patient experience and team-well-being
Quarterly – the half-day becomes a full-day, off-site and the afternoon session is an external guest speaker on marketing, customer service or sales
Annually – a 2-day trip. Leave Friday afternoon and fly to any Easyjet destination in Europe. Friday night, informal dinner. Saturday morning CPD training session, review of the last year, reveal plans for the next year. Saturday afternoon, shopping for the girls and beer for the boys. Saturday night dinner and dancing. Sunday morning hangovers and breakfast, afternoon begin the journey back home
Have I worked with dental clients who do this? Yes I have. Do they have a problem-free zone with team members? No they don’t. Overall, do they have better performance and behaviour from team members? Yes they do. Have there been lots of clients who have done this over the last 20 years? No. Excuses:
too expensive
too much down-time
it will not be appreciated
they don’t deserve it
To quote Isadore Sharpe (Founder and Chairman of Four Seasons Hotels Group)
That which we do not own, is our greatest asset
People are not an overhead on your P&L, they are an asset on your balance sheet. If you want to make customer service your competitive advantage – it begins with a self-actualised team. READ THIS