The blog of Alun Rees, The Dental Business Coach
This came from one of my favourite regular reads “The Digital Dentist“, they are usually Microsoft focussed but sometimes come up with something of interest to a dedicated Mac user like me.
Tune out & use iTunes for catching up on papers as PDFs. Read more here.
There is a reduction in postings because I’m enjoying the Force 6 winds & rain in West Cork. Time with my family and particularly my son is priceless, I am aware that the rise of his physical star and the waning of mine are coming close to coincidence. We are enjoying cycling together; he outsprints me but my stamina tops his.
As a very wise patient once said to me:
“If you tell me about something before you start it’s an explanation,
if you tell me about it after it has happened it’s an excuse.”
Even though I didn’t get around to publishing until Tuesday!
This seemed particularly apt this week for a number of reasons. It comes from Henry David Thoreau’s classic book “Walden”
“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you try it in your old clothes. All men want, not something to do, or rather something to be. Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted, so enterprised or sailed in someway, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.”
I have just discovered that Randy Bausch who I mentioned in an earlier posting passed away on July 28th.
Rest in Peace.
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As a coach one of the major things that I help my clients deal with is time management. It’s something that I read about and research in order to be able to keep abreast of the newly labelled science or art of GTD.
Or is it Emperor’s New Clothes?
I came across this lecture by Randy_Pausch.
It’s called The Last Lecture for obvious reasons & here he is on Time Management.
Humbling
Sometimes when clients say “thank you” it’s good to hear; when they give you a testimonial it’s even better, if a little embarrassing. One of my biggest failings is that I don’t blow my own trumpet nearly enough.
Alun’s straightforward “tell it how it is” approach has encouraged my dental team to stop, think and apply new ideas and systems to our customer care and patient journey.
I would have made less expensive mistakes had I engaged Alun’s services sooner!!
I would highly recommend Alun’s services to new and experienced colleagues alike.
Great idea no fuss, minimal need to interact with other travelers, familiar, easy to book, lots of them.
Downside? Soulless, no idea where you are when you wake up during the night, the ones on M-way services condemn you to the adjacent food (or none as here in Washington) the choice being a several mile round trip to reach a point that is a few hundred yards as the crow flies.
What makes them different from each other?
The smile of the person who welcomes you, who makes the effort to acknowledge you as a weary traveler.
So thanks Rachel you were ‘just doing your job’ our transaction lasted all of 90 seconds but it’ll make me stay with you guys again.
I must own up to having mixed feeling about the practice of “facial aesthetics”. When I examine my motives I realise they have arisen from
But should they be practice builders? As a foundation of a practice I would be very concerned.
Now the GDC have spoken…”As a result of the Council’s Scope of Practice consultation in early 2008, the Council has agreed that non-surgical cosmetic procedures outside the immediate mouth area are not dentistry. The Council will also be undertaking an impact assessment on whether surgical procedures away from the face, such as bone harvesting from the hip, should not be considered dentistry.”
Fuller report here
Don’t have too many eggs in one basket as our grandmothers would have said.
Will this result in separate businesses under the same roof? See last weeks blog entry.
Why is it that whenever the GDC clarifies situations I am left with more questions? They have made a couple of recent statements on whitening and facial aesthetics.
On whitening. Thank goodness some sense at last, hygienists and therapists will be allowed to carry out tooth whitening. Not only that, but nurses will be able to take impressions and construct trays for bleaching.
Yet there are still dentists who will not undertake tooth whitening because the GDC’s position, which hasn’t been helped by some mixed messages from the defence associations, has been so ambiguous over the past decade that they live in fear of prosecution by ‘trading standards‘ if there are any problems.
Can we now use the strength of material to do the job properly too. please?
Will this bring the prices down I wonder? The last practice I visited had just reduced his bleaching fees from £500 to £400 (£397 was my suggestion) and was planning on delegating the whole thing to his therapist. he’s one of the few people I know who really has grasped the role of therapists within the team.
