From Guest Writers Mariana Diaz, Executive Coach and Don Khouri, Managing Director, Fortune Northeast Creating and setting a culture that welcomes consistent feedback is crucial to improving team dynamics for many reasons. First, it helps to develop a sense of accountability and allows the team member to measure their success. Second, it helps to foster… Continue reading Five Steps to A Successful Dental Employee Performance Appraisal
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Out From Behind the Covid Wall – From Guest Writer Brenda Loan Baker
From Guest Writer Brenda Loan Baker, Executive Coach, Fortune Management Northeast On every social media platform you can find numerous memes about 2020 being the worst year ever. For most of us this lock-down has been going on since mid-March, seven months now. To some it seems like a lifetime. Early on in the pandemic,… Continue reading Out From Behind the Covid Wall – From Guest Writer Brenda Loan Baker
Great Promotion From Our Friends at Bank of America Practice Solutions
Stefan Green and Dave Miller of Bank of America Practice Solutions recently notified us of their low interest rate promotion of just 1% for 18 months and then fixed for the remainder of the term at 3.43%. To qualify, please apply by 12/1/20. According to Stefan, “Dave and I are excited to announce our Q4… Continue reading Great Promotion From Our Friends at Bank of America Practice Solutions
Tabitha’s Tip: Best Practices To Handle Old Patient Receivables – From Guest Writer Tabitha Lugo
Q: I've been in practice for over 20 years and my books are full of uncollectible Accounts Receivables. Do you have any best practices for how to handle this? A: What I usually suggest to clients is that once they turn an account over to a collection agency, or in this case have uncollectible accounts sitting… Continue reading Tabitha’s Tip: Best Practices To Handle Old Patient Receivables – From Guest Writer Tabitha Lugo
Seven Ways To Get Your Reluctant Patients Back
Guest Writer Don Khouri, Managing Director, Fortune Management Northeast As healthcare practices continue to reach out to patients who need to be scheduled, one of the biggest challenges they face is the wide variation in comfort level their patients have about coming back in for treatment. We are finding that many patients are reluctant to… Continue reading Seven Ways To Get Your Reluctant Patients Back
New Book And Website Launched To Help Dentists With Their Finances
Congratulations to our long-time client Dr. Sam Shamardi for writing and publishing his book: “The Financial Survival Guide for Dentists”. “As you know all too well, dental school doesn't prepare us at all for business, which is our biggest issue by far. My book finally addresses these issues and more and provides the solution graduating… Continue reading New Book And Website Launched To Help Dentists With Their Finances
Values Collision: How To Ruin A Great Day At Work
By Guest Writer Don Khouri, Managing Director, Fortune Management Northeast Have you ever had a day like this? You prep for your Monday morning team huddle; notes, handouts, metrics – everything is just the way you like it. It’s 7:45 AM and you are ready to go! Then, two critical team members want to discuss… Continue reading Values Collision: How To Ruin A Great Day At Work
Best Year Ever
By Guest writer Don Khouri, Managing Director, Fortune Management Northeast After ten weeks of staying at home (except for an occasional trip to the supermarket), my hair was pretty long. When I finally got my haircut, I only needed one haircut. I didn’t need two or three. One did the trick. Dentistry is different. The… Continue reading Best Year Ever
Fortune Management Shares How To Avoid The 2020 Hygiene Disaster
Don Khouri, Managing Director, Fortune Management Northeast Most dental practices proactively pre-appoint their hygiene patients for their next visit. For healthy patients, that means six months from now and for perio patients, 3 months from now. Let’s think about this for a minute. If you were not seeing hygiene patients from March 16 to on… Continue reading Fortune Management Shares How To Avoid The 2020 Hygiene Disaster
Tabitha’s Tip: Hygiene Capacity, What Can Your Patient Base Support?
Hygiene capacity is an interesting topic. Owners frequently define a full hygiene schedule with few openings to be at capacity. The mistaken belief is that a full schedule denotes success. This definition is very limiting, since few owners are truly tapping the potential capacity that they already have. Often they are experiencing a scheduling problem… Continue reading Tabitha’s Tip: Hygiene Capacity, What Can Your Patient Base Support?
Let CARR Healthcare Negotiate Your Lease – Especially During These Crazy Times
Looking for a company to help you with lease negotiating or with the purchase of commercial space? How about a company where the fee for their services is actually paid by your landlord or by the person you purchase the real estate from, and isn’t paid you? We routinely refer our clients to Matt Kolcum… Continue reading Let CARR Healthcare Negotiate Your Lease – Especially During These Crazy Times
Tabitha’s Tips – Overhead High? This Will Help
From our Friends at ShelleyRenee Practice Consulting: I am not a fan of statements. They should not be standard practice. Do you track the number of statements that are sent out each month? What does the number of statements sent represent? Each statement represents a non-collection. Most practices I visit have a… Continue reading Tabitha’s Tips – Overhead High? This Will Help
Tabitha’s Tips – From Our Friends At Shelley Renee Coaching
Is your team writing off your paycheck? Details matter. Small changes can equal thousands in practice savings. One area to be aware of is the insurance write-offs. Do you know if your team is calculating them correctly? This week while conversing with a practice owner, we discovered that the team was taking off insurance adjustments… Continue reading Tabitha’s Tips – From Our Friends At Shelley Renee Coaching