Systems for Success
Shelly VanEpps and Alex Nottingham JD MBA discuss how a practice is only as strong as its systems. They explore how simple, updated SOPs create consistency, accountability, and value—so your dental team runs smoothly, even when challenges arise.
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About Shelly VanEpps
Shelly is the VP of Business Development & a Mastery Coach with All-Star Dental Academy. By aiding in the growth and expansion of All-Star, Shelly’s passion for dentistry allows the company to focus on guiding dentists and their teams towards achieving their vision of a successful dental practice. Because each office has their own definition of “success” Shelly focuses her attention on customized coaching by applying her 21 years in the dental field to each department within the office. In addition, as a John Maxwell Certified Leadership Coach, Shelly enjoys working with doctors and office managers on shifting their approach from a managerial approach to a more effective leadership style.
About Alex Nottingham, JD, MBA
Alex is the CEO and Founder of All-Star Dental Academy®. He is a former Tony Robbins top coach and consultant, having worked with companies upwards of $100 million. His passion is to help others create personal wealth and make a positive impact on the people around them. Alex received his Juris Doctor (JD) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Florida International University.
Episode Transcript
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can truly only be as successful as your systems are. You can’t expect somebody to come in and just be told answer the phone. Everybody has those. I know you do. You have a checklist and it’s like, turn off the lights, empty the garbage, run the suctions, all these things. And the team would just write their name at the top of the list and then draw a line through it. And I would walk through at the end of the day, lights are still on and opt for what is it that we want in our practice so that we don’t have a whole team of people. ah
00:29
someone’s all called in today and they’re freaking out and panicking and everybody is just clicking the machine just keeps moving forward
00:38
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00:47
Welcome to dental all-stars. I’m Alex Nonogham, founder and CEO of All-Straudental Academy. And with me is Shelly Van Epps, the chief operating officer at All-Straudental Academy. And our topic is systems for success with Shelly Van Epps. Welcome Shelly. Thank you. Are you doing a little dance? Can you do the dance for the… That’s part of my system. Got to start off with getting pumped up, right? Getting pumped up.
01:11
That’s a system of morning huddle. You should always come in all pumped up, right? I’m sure every office that’s listening every doctor that’s listening says My morning huddles are so vibrant. Everybody’s really pumped up and excited, but that should be a system That should be part of the way you start off your day dancing dancing Maybe not dancing, but at least awake awake is good. Oh, is good. Oh, wake is good. There you go Yeah, so this topic
01:39
was predicated often just our discussions. Like we’re thinking, okay, let’s systematize All-Star even more. So just some background and then we can kind of bring it into the dental space as well. Cause we’re always, there’s this adage, the cobbler, the shoe cobbler has no shoes or something, meaning something like, like you’re, you’re so good at training others, but are we doing it? Right. And then, so we had,
02:08
uh, some positions changed at All-Star and we were looking to improve our onboarding process and we’re like, well, we don’t have it really like super systematized. And so you’re developing SOPs, standard operating procedures, and you’re an operations officer. That sounds good. And they’re beautiful. I was very impressed with them and making sure that for every position we have step-by-step what to do, all the resources.
02:37
to make it successful. So that’s kind of what gave the energy towards this podcast is to say, we’re doing it. Let’s talk about, let’s also talk about dental offices in terms of how do we systematize it more? What are the benefits? So, yeah, that’s kind of the issue.
02:59
It is, it’s a personal issue right now that’s hands on, but also when working with other offices, it’s a continual thing. You have somebody who leaves, you have somebody who goes on vacation, you have somebody who gets sick unexpectedly. What are you supposed to do if you don’t have these systems written out so clean and clear that anybody could find the resources to be able to be successful so that you don’t have to shut down? You don’t have to cancel patients. Aside from a
03:27
provider that’s a different story but you should also have a hygienist is calling out what is our system what do we need to do when that hygienist gets sick and we have a day full of hygiene patients are we bringing in assistance shifting them over to hygiene is it a reschedule is it doctors doing hygiene what is it that we want in our practice so that we don’t have a whole team of people ah so-and-so called in today and they’re freaking out and panicking no
03:56
Nobody, we know exactly what to do and everybody is just clicking and the, what is it? The machine just keeps moving forward and nobody is surprised. Nobody has to think about and come up with a solution. Um, it’s already been thought of. So I’m thinking like in context for dental office where, cause of course there’s systems for everything. Actually did we, at our last summit, we did the concept of systems actually.
04:26
Yeah, we talked about that. That’s right. And I did a presentation on that. What I see that’s happening for us and we can translate this to developers as well. mean, we have systems, but part of it is not just making the system, but looking at it and improving it. And then how much do you use the system? You can have the best systems in the world, but if you don’t use it, they don’t make sense. So I want to kind of give a wrote like a uh map of where these take place. So oh
04:53
and you’re different types of systems. But for All-Star where we play, we provide a training program, the online training program that has systems in it that has training in it. Okay. We hold that there. We also have coaching that has its own systems and its own process, but it’s the coach that’s helping to identify issues. talk about self-funded coaching, like how do we monetize what’s being done? So it pays for itself. How do we improve leadership? How do we improve? How do we get it so the
05:22
focusing a lot on action, okay, coaching. So the online is information, the coaching is action. But there’s something else that that’s missing that is very unique to each practice. And that is going to be what, what are we now titrated into? Okay. That’s the, that’s the systems part. And then it’s the dedication that we stick with it. Right. So that’s the one. That’s the big one.
05:51
Because I have a dentist and spoke to the other day. He’s like, I have a system for it was impressive. I have all of it exactly as it’s supposed to be, but they’re not doing it. we, we can focus a little bit of our time on the systems and where they and how to build them, how to think about them. But then also what do we do about it? How do we make sure that, that it gets done? What are the, uh, so that kind of, as we’re talking out some, you know, things we want to cover. So in a dental practice, now that I’ve
06:21
created context of where everything, uh, cause you have clinical training, all these are inputs that we need, but then we have to make it our own. And that’s the problem where we start to borrow from other people. We just say, let me just put this script. It’s got to resonate with us as I watch you put our systems together. They’re so specific to the way we do things to our philosophy. Right. So you have the visionary. It’s me, right. What do I want from a big picture? The operations officer. That’s you. You’re the boss.
06:51
how are things should operate the way I’m thinking the way the team’s thinking and you have to take everybody’s information and put it into something that makes sense. Everybody’s happy. Right? So that’s what the person does. can truly only be as successful as your systems are. You can’t expect somebody to come in and just be told answer the phone. Your job is to answer the phone. They will pick it up and go hello.
07:18
You have to have a system in place for them and it needs to be so simple that there’s no reason they’re not following the great call process. There’s no reason that they’re not scheduling using your block scheduling because they understand it and they understand why that system has been in place. It has to be that way or else you’re just rolling the dice every single time that your team answers the phone or schedules and you never know what you’re going to get consistency out of your systems. Now you’re not blaming your team members.
07:47
You’re not going to them and saying, Hey, Shelly, you’re not doing your job. You can say, Shelly, we’re getting a different result. Are we still following the same system? Did you have to tweak the system is tweaking the system the right way? Are we still, you know, achieving our goals every single day? I noticed that I have an emergency right smack in the middle of when I would normally be prepping a crown. Like talk to me about that. I broke the system. This is why I broke the system and maybe they have an excuse.
08:15
but they shouldn’t have an excuse very many times. It should be like a emergency situation that had to happen. So sorry, Alex. No, don’t say that. We’ll take it away. You’re the, you’re the interviewee here, that makes it about it. No, I know. And, and, and I, and we were talking, say in our, in our meetings, so we have our meetings. We talk about based on rocket fuel. did a whole section on that. We can revisit that at some point with the podcast about.
08:43
the evolution of, of meetings and being successful, but I was very inspired by your SOPs. And then I said, oh, well, and that’s where I thought about, and as we can talk out here is what we talk about anywhere else is like the dentist as a visionary is very important as what, do you want? What do you see? And that’s what we were talking about today. And I was, you did a beautiful job on the SOP for coaching. And I was like, and I like it, but it very, it was very tactical and we need it, but I’m thinking it’s missing the.
09:12
We got to step back and that’s what we’re going to work on in our next major meeting with you, the president of coaching, our director of service and all that, and myself and saying, okay, well, what, what are the big overarching themes that convey from how we’re marketing it and that the coaches are executing it? Because the problem is this, uh, is that if we have a system or process and doesn’t have the heart, doesn’t have everything baked into it, the big picture.
09:42
then we’re just running as robots. don’t know why we’re doing it. That’s important as well. If we have a system we’re gonna use it if we know why we use it. It supports something bigger, right? So why are we doing systems uh for clinical and for customer service? Because we want a great experience for our patients because we live by at our dental practice this philosophy and that’s why we do it, right? Well, I just used an example actually.
10:07
when I was talking to an office recently about a system that we had in our office and it was to check off that you did all the different things at the end of the day. Everybody has those. I know you do. You have a checklist and it’s like, turn off the lights, empty the garbage, run the suctions, all these things. And the team would just write their name at the top of the list and then draw a line through it. And I would walk through at the end of the day, lights are still on and opt for go back. Oh, this person was supposed to have.
10:32
shut down Op4. So I just started calling them because at some point you have to have accountability. Did I make them turn around? No. But did I make sure that they understood that their inaction to follow the system caused me to have to stop what I was doing, go back there, shut off the lights, empty the trash, whatever it was. Yeah, that’s part of accountability to the system. We weren’t getting the result. If we had left the suctions on all night long, some of you doctors have had the unfortunate scenario of showing up
11:02
to flooding areas, I’m sure that happens. That is a system your team has to make sure that that button is pushed in, that everything is shut off at the end of the day. If it doesn’t, there’s a consequence. So in this case, you had the system, but they didn’t follow it. Correct. So that’s where accountability comes in, right? There can’t be a system and an expectation that a team member is going to follow it if there’s not.
11:30
accountability to the system. also, I think if we’re always checking back the system and it’s evolving, I think that’s important. There’s a great nugget of wisdom I’ve heard before, and this is based on numerous studies about airplanes that once they put checklists for airplanes, the amount of crashes and issues gone down significantly. cannot, with flying, you cannot be 90 % successful. You have to be almost
11:59
infinitely positively successful because the consequence is so great if you get it wrong. And so checklists are very, very important, which is a, which is one way of, of kind of putting together the systems. So kind of bliss for me, Shelley, what are, what are systems or systems that need to be created for an office? What would be, this is the rattle off like, and again, this is not going to be, cause you have time to go through it, but like,
12:28
Where there’s so many areas that need that. Every department has to have their own list of SOPs and systems that they need to have in place, not just the how-tos, but the why do we do it and the kind of like what you were saying, the categories of it. So our check-in process, what does that entail? Oh, it means we have to check them in and whatever software. Okay. So how do you check them in in that software? How do you communicate it back to your clinical team? How do you schedule? How do you answer the phones?
12:57
How do you check on insurance outstanding? How often do you check on insurance outstanding? That’s off the top of my head, just a couple from the admin side. Then you’ve got assistance, you’ve got room setups, you’ve got how do you resupply and make sure that you’re ordering properly and keeping adequate supply on hand. um Gosh, what else? Lab stuff, you name it. Hygienists, what is your process? What is your perio program? What is your…
13:26
standard of care, like there’s so many different systems that you just need to nail down. And that’s where I think a lot of teams get overwhelmed and they say, oh my gosh, it’s so much work. And it is. I’m, I would never say that it’s not because it absolutely is. And you’ll be coming up with a reason why you don’t have time to do it until all of a sudden you are sunk and you’re like, oh my gosh, we should have done that because now
13:54
My whole team is gone or somebody just got really sick and everything was right here, or they retire and go somewhere else. And all of your systems just walked out the door with that person. If they’re not documented, they’re not your systems. There’s something that people are doing as a routine, but they’re not your systems if they’re not documented. I you made a really good point because I think for those who are listening, I’m sure they heard it.
14:23
We need systems and I’m sure they know that systems are checklists for clinical, for practice management, for so on. The issue then, and we focus a lot about at All-Star is action. What do we do to make it happen? And I think the first most important step is that there’s gotta be a priority. It’s gotta be prioritized. Now, not everybody is as lucky. Some are. They have a operations manager or officer or manager that…
14:52
like yourself, you were a former office manager that has a trained to take the initiative and just do it and to block out time and see the importance or a doctor is very systematized. It’s rare and they’ll put the time during their admin to get it done. But I think there’s this, I love the statement from John Wooden about, you don’t have the time to do it right, when we have time to do it over is that we have to prioritize and block time.
15:21
Whoever is going to lead this, the, dentists, if you don’t have a manager or team member that enjoys it and will do it with the smile on their face and do it well, you’re going to do it. Okay. You can also, your coach can help guide you, can help start you, can help you kind of, but it requires time to think through and we can show you examples. were talking about it today. It’s like coaching is not, what we do is not consulting. We’re not going in there. Uh, and it’s consultants more expensive, but it’s.
15:50
They do everything for you. Right. And it’s a lot of time coaching is I’m going to guide you through it and you’re going to do it. Right. And, and, and go step by step. So I think you have to prioritize and see the importance and block the time and do it. Yeah. There was another way that I would do this at times when I knew something needed to be updated or I hadn’t taken a look at it recently. You bring on a new hire. That’s the perfect time you’re training them.
16:18
And then you say, you go over it and say, this is how we do it. I would love for you to take a look at our standard operating procedure and make sure it’s still up to date. Because what I just shared with you is the way that we’re currently doing it here in our office. And if they see something that’s off, that’s a red flag. Either the person who’s training them is making up their own way because every now and then you’ll hire every now and then these doctors who are listening, they’re going to say, Oh, yep, I’m guilty. You hire somebody and they have experience. And because they have experience.
16:48
They automatically go straight out there and they are an assistant the very next day and they skip onboarding. They skip the training process. They don’t ever even see your SOPs ever because they already know how to do it. They are bringing old SOPs, old habits into your practice and your systems are going goodbye without you even realizing it. It’s happening overnight as you sleep. It’s just every day that new person is training somebody else and then you look back at your systems. Yeah, we used to do.
17:18
We used to do it that way. I don’t know why we stopped doing it that way. I’ll tell you why. It was probably because you onboarded somebody along the way who didn’t follow the system or there wasn’t consistency or there wasn’t accountability. And out of those things happening, your system went away. That’s why you’re not doing it anymore. That’s why during our coaching sessions, we’ll go back through the last year and say, okay, these are the things that we’ve talked about over the last year. How are we doing on this as a team? Oh yeah, that worked really well.
17:47
Okay, is it still working really well? Well, we stopped doing it. Okay, why did you stop doing it? Because something else came and then something else came and it starts building and then the overwhelm starts happening and people just revert back to old habits. You have to stay consistent and you have to have accountability in place or else you’re just, again, rolling the dice and hoping that you’re getting the result that you wanted at the end of the day.
18:13
Just to remind everybody, SOP is standard operating procedure. I mentioned it earlier. I just want to make sure that they’re familiar with ironcladure. No, no, no, no. just, we don’t want to assume. And the, so I like what you said and I think this makes a lot of sense because of re, look, there’s ideal and there’s reality. Ideal is we should be able to proactively or.
18:37
I wouldn’t even say the word proactive is beyond that. We should be able to predict and prophesize. This is when we have to do it. We’re going to know every procedure and it’s going to be, and we’re going to have the energy. But the reality is we’re tired. We’re doing production. Things happen. It doesn’t get done. So what I like, what you, what you did, you’re excited, but I like what you, what I like, what you did is we had to make a change in a position and you said, this is the time I’m listening to be proactive. We need it.
19:04
I see an improvement and this triggers me to put the time. You could have dead said, let’s just get it done. I don’t want to deal with this. And now we still don’t have a system, but you said, you’re not only are we going to onboard, but I’m going to use this as an opportunity and even the new hire to help me make it better. Exactly. And that was my next point is that because if you don’t have it done and you’re thinking, well, I don’t even have one. So how am I supposed to have this new person do it? Teach the person, have them write it.
19:32
have the new team member write it that will tell you if they understand it. Once you know something, you can do something. Once you can teach something in this scenario, writing it out, you can confirm, okay, they got it. There is no excuse then at that point for that new team member to do something in a different way. They literally wrote it out for you step by step on exactly how you trained it for them. They knew in that moment how to do it.
19:58
So that’s a huge accountability opportunity and a building of SOPs. If you’re in that scenario where you’re thinking, I have no team, I have no SOPs written, it’s too much. As you’re training, have your new team members write it down for you and build that SOP for you. And I think that’s a great idea. And we’re just riffing on this. I love it. I mean, this is the power of the mastermind. I believe, and we’re doing it here at All-Star, but I think in a practice,
20:26
whether you’re onboarding somebody new or you even have a team member, hopefully you like them. If you don’t, we have a hiring service. But with that team member, what I would do, let’s say you’re assistant, we don’t have a process, whether it’s clinical and or customer services. Hey, Cindy, we need a standard operating procedure. And this is what we’re thinking. And you as a visionary doctor say, this is what I’m looking at. I high level customer service. I want detail. I want a checklist.
20:54
have them work on it, give them to say within the next 30 days, I like you to work on it between if there’s time in between where you’re waiting on me, or if not, I’ll block time in the schedule for you to build it. What we’re doing it is put it down on paper so we can also look at it together because what I hear you saying, this is a good opportunity, a good training opportunity between the two to say, do we see on the same page? But I think as a vision or the doctor, the big picture, here’s what I want to happen.
21:20
And then when you see it, much like today, when I saw what you guys did, I said, that was great. What you did for coaching. Um, and I like it, but I think it’s missing something that I need to add to it. And that’s what that was. didn’t, if we didn’t have it, I couldn’t say it. So each position you can task them with, here’s what I’m looking to do. I’ll coach you or have our dental coach and all star, whatever help you with it. But the point is, is they got to put, put it in. They’ll, they should feel excited to make that impact. You don’t want to.
21:50
And we were talking about it and you even said, Shelly, shame on you. Meaning that when you left your practice, you were so invaluable and you said that was a problem. That was something that you wish you, you would have saw. Um, you didn’t do it on purpose because you’re so valuable. said, I, would have been more helpful if I systematize everything that I do. And I became not as valuable. If you have somebody in your practice.
22:19
that’s too valuable and they, and they want to keep it that way. That’s a problem. But if you have a good person, say, I want to take care of, of, of the practice and that if I’m gone, which I prefer not to, but at least I have something there that you can guide for. And I think that’s a level of, of, uh foresight. It’s, it’s, know, it’s good business sense to be able to do that. And that’s what we want. Nobody in that practice should be, uh,
22:48
where they cannot be systematized, right? Even the dentist can be systematized, right? What does a dentist do? What do you do? Right? Cause what if you’re selling the practice or what if you want to go to more admin, what are you bringing on an associate? This is how we’re going to do things here. And if you want to sell your practice, by the way, we do a lot of interviews with our transitions company we work with, but you want to be able to, if you sell out, if you were a practice, you say, Hey, here’s a list of all our SOPs and what we’re doing. They’re going to eat that up. They’re going to pay.
23:18
Uh, a premium for everything is put together turnkey. Absolutely. There is a point I do want to mention where your systems can be so inundated and so detailed, your team will never use them. So just keep that in mind as you’re building these out and as you’re looking at your SLPs. And if you’re thinking about your systems and you’re like, we have them, they don’t use any of them or they use very little, very few. They may be so complex.
23:47
And in your mind, whoever built it, made perfect sense. More detail, the better. You do need to, for lack of better terms, uh, dial it down. We’ll dilate now. That’s what I was trying to think of right there. Alex, you want to dial it back a little bit and make it so simple. It can’t be so complex that they can’t find the system. You can’t have a binder this big or an internet or a link on
24:15
that online that goes to 5,000 different documents and they’re like searching for how to set up a Serret crown. Like how do I set this up? It has to be at their fingertips, super easy to use for the day-to-day tasks. And then some of the things that they don’t do on a daily basis, yes, have a resource for them for that random one-off situation that comes up, but you should have really easy at your fingertips for 80 % of everything that’s done in your practice. Use the 80-20 rule.
24:44
80 % of the things that you do, you’ve got an easy SOP. The random things that happen every now and then, you’ve got a resource for them to look to, to figure out how to do it. How are you going to change the trap in the lab? Doesn’t happen on a daily basis, but when it does, you don’t want to be as the doctor, the one who gets to get under the sink and change that trap, because it is stanky. So you want someone else to know how to do it. I think that’s the masterful point for our conclusion.
25:14
And I want to highlight that because even when I was looking again, I’m to go back to the coaching documents. So you listen, this is, have a whole coaching department and we’re continuing to refine, refine, refine. But I like what you did in the coaching documents that, uh, where on an issue that’s ancillary or that you have a link to a recording or deep more detail to go deeper into that. So you don’t want to document for the coaches that it’s so complex. don’t know how to start or where to go. So I think we, we.
25:44
As we conclude this into, think the most important point is yes, we have to make systems, but if we’re not going to use them or they’re too complicated, you just wasted your time or it’s, it’s, it’s not, I’m gonna say waste your time, but you’re, it’s not usable. So we have to say, yes, you can build it, but always think how can I make it more simple? Is this necessary? Can I link it to someone else where what systems are using? I mean, you can do something as simple as Google docs with tabs.
26:13
You can have a whole complex system, the best system is the one you’re going to use. But in general, when you construct it, you want it easy to understand. You want to say whatever you can strip off, strip off. You want to test it. You want to revisit it. So just as important as creating a system is you want system that people are using now, even if you do make it simple, you do have all those things done because I listen, they’re dentists.
26:41
And their office managers out there for sure. They can make a beautiful, beautiful program. know you can do that, but the final piece is can we get it done? Because even if it’s as simple, what the team starts doing that line through it, because they’re just there. Something’s missing. That’s where the motivation, that’s where the, are going to be the bad guy or the tough, whatever it is, the tough teacher and say, we are going to do it.
27:11
We’re going to do it right. was a story about Steve jobs. I thought was very impressive. His father taught him the paid offense, paint offense, and he painted the front of the fence. It was beautiful. He says, what about the back of the fence? He goes, nobody sees it. Steve jobs. Dad says, I don’t care. It’s quality. So if you’re going to allow your team to just strike it, it’s just, get it done. Then that’s the ethic, but you have to hold them accountable that we are going to that I established. It’s a good system.
27:39
It’s as simple as I can make it. My coach looked over and checked it. That was very simple and easy to use. You got feedback. Now it’s holding them accountable. And this is probably the toughest step. Other dentist is right. You say it’s like, like, can I face that person? Because I went to dental school to do dentistry, help people make it easy to use in living, but now I have to deal with people. That’s the joy of systems though, Alex. You can blame the system. don’t blame, you don’t have to blame the person.
28:08
I say, what’s going on with the system? Why is the system not working anymore? The lights were left down at the end of the day. Oh, you mean you didn’t follow the system. Okay. So you’re going to follow the system again tomorrow then, because we know we get the result that we’re looking for. A dentist would never say it like that. That was very direct. I was very powerful. uh
28:27
I don’t think so. No, no, no, no. We need better verb. If we’re not getting the result that we’re looking for and our system is wrong, then we’re never going to get the right. There you go. We got to coddle them a little bit. able to blame the system. And when I’ve done team meetings like this, I remember one in particular, she was like, oh my gosh, that was the best team meeting we’ve had. And this is what we were talking about. We were talking about blame the system. And if you’re not getting the result, look to each other and say, are we still following our system? It’s easy. And that’s the emotional intelligence where
28:57
by and even going back to the great book, the, what is it? The how do I want to friends and influence people. You never want people to feel like hurt that it’s their fault or whatever. You’re not picking on them. No, you, and then when you, when you depersonalize it by saying, okay, something may be wrong with the system or we forgot to use this them or something, let’s get back to it. It’s because the systems are there to protect us because, they understand, yes, because that’s part of it too. What we said in the beginning that you have
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This is what we stand for great customer service. The systems help us do that to be able to provide that. And we, as a team have to follow if one doesn’t follow it, something else will falter. So we have to encourage and we say, maybe the system was done wrong and we can always, I like what you always do. I really value that. You never assume, presume or anticipate. My uncle taught me that, which I love. And you live that you say, let’s not assume maybe something else happened. Let’s not point the finger or maybe the system can be improved.
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Maybe the system wasn’t clear. Let’s clear it up and let’s move on. Depersonalize it. But I’ll tell you something docs. If there’s someone who is not willing to follow the system to support your practice, support your vision, you not a good idea. You may want to consider replacing that position. And I know a great hiring service at All-State General Academy that can help you with that. don’t encourage you letting go people cause it’s hard out there. uh
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But if they do not follow what you believe in and they’re not willing to put in the work and you’ve done the best that you could, then you want to make sure you have people that follow. so kind of clued with this. mean, I don’t think any dentists or any team is going to disagree. You have a well-oiled machine as we started with this, right? That’s what the whole analogy. Everybody’s in the same page. They know what they want to do. They have clear instructions and we’re all following it. I use an example of football or a team.
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Everybody’s got to play their position. There’s a play filled out. And if one person drops the ball, the whole system fails and we got to do it, not just to please the doctor, but to take care of the team and to take care of the patient and doctors. That’s your job is to be so, uh, what’s the word maniacal I said before, but so strict on the vision, the vision and what you stand for is bigger than yourself and to hold everyone accountable for that process.
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