Archive for 'Dental Team Hiring' Category

Attitude–Smatitude Can She Suck Spit or Not?

12 March 2008

John C. Maxwell in his book, Attitude 101 reminds us that there is only one thing more contagious than a good attitude and that’s a bad attitude.  For some reason many people think it’s chic to be negative.  I was “observing” in a prospective client’s office for a couple of hours and while within earshot and clear […]

The Ideal Employee Profile

4 February 2008

Today, at the request of Assistant Professor, Dr. Mario Pavicic (click here to see his attractive website), I shared some hiring ideas with the Junior class at the Case School of Dentistry in Cleveland.  One of the most critical ideas I wanted the students to understand is the process or creating a clear picture (vision) of the person they want […]

Passionate Employees Create Profits

5 June 2007

Do your employees have a “cult-like” devotion to you and your business?  If not, read this brief article on Gimundo, Good News….Served Daily.  You may want to subscribe to this free service as it often has great stories you may want to share with your team.  Perhaps a great way to add positive thinking to […]

How do I find candidates for an open position?

31 May 2007

STOP being a secret!!!!!  We do such a great job of keeping it a secret that we have a position open in our office.  I sometimes wonder if it isn’t because we are embarassed that others will think we are lousy leaders?  Or that we are unable to keep employees?  Or that we are terrible […]

Top Eight Tips on How To Hire With Consistancy

15 March 2007

Many studies and surveys say that the number one issue facing business is finding and keeping good employees.  This is true as well in dentistry.  One of the greatest factors related to practice success over the next five to ten years will be how to find and retain employee talent.  Unfortunately, dentists have had little […]

TOP TEN WAYS TO “RIGHT” HIRING FOR THE DENTAL TEAM

8 March 2007

Your practice is “humming” along.  You and your team members work hard to manage your active patient load while maintaining production and profitability.  At the end of your biggest workday ever, your main administrative coordinator informs you she is leaving your practice for another position.  Your new found practice high feels like it’s about to […]

Where do all the “nut cases” come from?

20 February 2007

One of my clients called today rather upset as one of her recent hires who seemed very happy to be with the team; excited about learning the new software; communicated well with her team mates; and even came in on her time off to become more integrated with the practice………..decided to leave the practice abruptly, […]

Dental Practice Management–Finding & Retaining Sharp Talent

29 January 2007

There is a WAR for talent going on right now.  Many of us in dentistry are clueless to this battle and we behave as though it isn’t a major concern.  Perhaps for you it isn’t…but for many, many others it is a challenge.  On the front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer there is an […]

Replacing Employees…the costs will surprise you!

11 June 2006

Turnover costs you more money than you realize…
Depending on who you talk to and the level of detail you want to account for, experts say it costs between 100% to 300% of an employees’ annual compensation to replace them.  It appears that turnover costs rise as the level of the job and its complexity increases.
 
To […]

Dr. Ron’s Tuesday Tidbits

14 May 2006

Register for this weeks electronic newsletter, Tuesday Tidbits.  There are ideas on how to

grow your practice;
how to increase your number of new patients; and
how to hire RIGHT people for your team. 

At the top of this Blog you can register…it’s easy and FREE.  Here is an excerpt from this weeks issue……..Dr. Ron 
Last week I described the […]