Why You Need This Guide This books aims to equip dentists with essential skills for effective practice management and leadership. It provides practical strategies for navigating team dynamics, improving communication, enhancing patient care, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement. The emphasis is to bridge the gap between clinical training and the real-world demands, that were not taught in dental schools. Whether you're a new practitioner or an experienced dentist, this guide offers valuable insights to help you thrive in the business side of dentistry. By focusing on leadership development, you can enhance your practice and contribute to the advancement of the dental profession. Embark on this transformative journey to become the inspiring leader your team deserves.

This book provides practical strategies for dentists to effectively and confidently communicate with many dental insurance issues, as well as with their patients and members of their staff. Providing real-world examples and sample letters, the book includes specific guidance on how to handle common communication scenarios to avoid being caught off-guard or unprepared. Leadership and Communication in Dentistry begins with a unique section discussing communications with insurance companies, including negotiations, PPO contract issues, appeals letters, and more. It then includes chapters on communicating with patients, addressing how to listen to their concerns and motivate them, and staff, emphasizing how to be a better leader and institute office policies. The final section explores how dentists can use leadership and communication skills to improve their practice of dentistry. Provides concrete guidance on how dentists can confidently take the lead on conversations with dental insurance companies, their staff, and their patients Includes real-world examples of how to lead through communications Divided into sections covering communications with insurance companies, dental patients, and staff members Teaches that being mindful of proper communication and leadership skills will create a true balance for the successful dentist leader to become successful at living Leadership and Communication in Dentistry is a must-have resource for any dentist or dental student wishing to improve their communication skills.

Leadership Skills for Dental Professionals Equips all members of the dental team with the key leadership skills for professional and personal life Leadership Skills for Dental Practitioners: Begin Well to Finish Well is an authoritative guide to better leadership in dentistry. Designed to prepare every member of the dental team for the leadership tasks and challenges they will face in general practice, this comprehensive resource helps the reader to develop skills not explicitly taught in traditional dental education. The book’s content has arisen from the Senior Dental Leadership programme which is a public private partnership between the Global Child Dental Fund charity, King’s College London, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Henry Schein and Colgate Palmolive. Throughout the book, practical advice is provided on fourteen capabilities for a balanced and credible leadership approach to application within a clinical context. Topics include: how to influence to have impact teamwork and collaboration credibility: how to gain it and lose it values for leadership practice and business ethics dealing with difficult people and managing conflict body language: fiction and facts Leadership Skills for Dental Practitioners: Begin Well to Finish Well is a much-needed guide for every member of the dental team.

The Complete Dentist: Positive Leadership and Communication Skills for Success is a one-of-a-kind guide to starting and running an effective and successful dental practice. Presents tried-and-true ideas and methods for effective communication, blending positive psychology with leadership in dentistry Describes the five elements of success and happiness, offering pathways to a flourishing dental practice Considers the reasons why communication and leadership skills are important for dentists

"Can't I just do the dentistry?" For over 25 years this is, hands down, the question dentists ask me most often. "I just want to do the dentistry and not have to get involved in all the other aspects of running a practice." Most dentists go into practice because they love the clinical challenge. Their joy is in mastering the technique, incorporating the coolest technology, improving the patient experience and in achieving top-notch clinical results. However, what they find once they get into practice is that they are running a small business and taking on many roles, CEO, CFO, CTO, let's face it, some days you're the entire C-Suite as well as chief cook and bottle washer! Dental schools don't focus on how to run the business side of a practice. The eager dentist finds they have to hire and then train, develop, engage and retain employees, learn and then coach the best practices for productive scheduling while supporting the team and the patients ethically and emotionally. That is where Ginny Hegarty's book, Pivot, can help. In her book, Ginny explains the innovative, lean business definition of pivot is to change strategy without changing vision. She explains that doctors can pivot to show their team the way to success. She wrote this book to help dentists learn to lead the team and create a culture that serves your purpose and passion with profitability following. Ginny's wish is that this book will lead dentists to a new understanding of the power they have to create the practice they've always dreamed of. She hopes this book kick starts a new level of success and joy in the reader's practice and life!