If growing your dental practice quickly sounds attractive to you, you’re in the right place. After helping thousands of dental practices grow using our Delivering WOW programs, we’ve learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t work. And the good news is that what works to grow a dental practice quickly is simple.
That’s right. A few simple strategies can make the difference between success and failure when it comes to growing your practice. That’s great news because fast dental practice growth is completely within your control—and you can use three of the best strategies in your weekly team meetings.
If you take the right steps you’ll get your desired results. Here are three simple tips you can start using in weekly team meetings right away to grow your dental practice quickly.
1. Ask your team members to share their personal and professional best.
We must remember that our practice is being run by a bunch of humans. We’re human. Our team members are human. Start every meeting by asking your team members to share your personal and professional bests for the week.
Sharing personal and professional bests brings tremendous benefits to everyone on your team. We all share a human experience with ups and downs. Asking team members to share personal and professional best gives every team member an opportunity to share and open up with each other. Even if one of your dental team members is struggling that week, this gives them a chance to recognize that, get help, and move forward. And your team can understand where they are and they can support them.
And asking for everyone to share their bests helps people focus on positive parts of the week, even if most of it was stressful.
2. Review results and performance from the previous week.
Take some time from the weekly meeting to look at doctor production per visit, hygiene production per visit, production collection, and new patient numbers. Ask your team how many patients last week left without an appointment? Ask how many patients were rescheduled, that were unscheduled? Review your a/r from last week. Appoint a team member to collect and present those numbers so you can easily access and analyze them. Ask them to compare those numbers to weekly goals you set for each of them.
When you don’t hit a goal for the week, analyze why and identify steps to hit the goal for the following week. For example, if doctor production per visit was low, ask what can be done to improve it. Can you pull a list of unscheduled patients and call to get them scheduled? Can you send unscheduled patients an email with a scheduling link?
Reviewing results and performance in a real-time, collaborative way helps catch issues fast.
3. Identify specific issues within your practice that need to be resolved quickly.
Before ending your weekly meetings, ask your team to identify any specific issues within your practice that don’t fit into the categories already discussed. This may be something like broken appointments or hygiene production per visit being consistently low. It could also involve a challenging HR or patient issue or training needed.
From there, brainstorm ways to resolve the issue, end the meeting with a plan to move forward, and identify a team member who will take ownership of the plan. Put that issue on the agenda for the following week.
Are you ready to grow your dental practice quickly?
Growing your dental practice requires you to be consistent and proactive. Take a few minutes to celebrate high moments with your team every week. Don’t sit around waiting for the month’s productivity numbers to be finalized before adjusting. Do that weekly. Don’t wait for small issues to be big before fixing them. Do that in real-time. Taking these three simple steps will help everyone in your practice perform.
If you want more help, your best next step is to join our free Dental Boss Movement group on Facebook. Inside that group, you will be able to mastermind and share with dentists and team members to help you grow your practice quickly.
