Motivational Moments with Eric Vickery: Highlights the importance of balancing humility and confidence in leadership, urging leaders to be both approachable and self-aware.
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About Eric Vickery
Eric holds a degree in business administration and brings a strong business and systems approach to his consulting. His initiation into the field of dentistry was in the area of office management. He managed dental practices for over ten years and has been consulting over 250 offices nationwide since 2001.
Episode Transcript
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Hello friends, welcome to your weekly motivational moments with Eric Vickery, president of coaching and All-Star Dental Academy. We’ve been on this storyline of being leaders. I’ll remind you, you’re all leaders. You know what you are. How you lead is through the HEROES acronym. And we’re going to dive into that each week now over the next several weeks. And I want to use this as a place for you to grab a foothold and say, okay, I want to learn how to be that. And so I’m going to…
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spin this a bit and I want you to stick with me on this. So the greatest leaders that I’ve seen have really both ends of the spectrum when it comes to these characteristics and I wanna explain what I mean. So let’s look at heroes. So in that overview, the hero being humble, that first part of this, a humble leader, and yet they are confident. So…
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How do you do that? How do you be a humble leader and be confident? You will see examples of this all the time. When someone is just way too confident and cocky and arrogant all the time, it creates a challenge for people. They don’t want to be around that person. So the humbleness is a way to soften the confidence that you bring into the room. So…
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And some people are really natural at this. I’ve, over the years, come to realize that some people who see me from a distance and don’t maybe know me, don’t engage with me, don’t see me as humble. You know, maybe they see something in me, maybe I’m not smiling when they first meet me or when they see me. But I think as people get to know you or get to know me in this scenario, they’ll find that I am humble.
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that I do know that I’m not perfect, that I do want to be in pursuit of excellence. And that’s that fine balance. So as a leader, as you lead your patients, as you lead your team, I want you thinking about how am I being perceived? Because sometimes it just takes a smile, sometimes it just takes a shift in who you’re being in those moments to come across a bit differently. Can you connect with someone? And
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One of the smartest things you can do is ask questions. You know, a confident yet humble leader knows how to ask questions and be interested in that other person, not just interesting all the time. So this is a check and a balance. This week, I want you looking for ways to maintain that balance, find that line, that thin line that you’re gonna walk, and say, okay, I’m humble, but yet I’m also, and also I’m confident. I can…
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be on both ends of that spectrum. All right guys, have a great week. I look forward to hearing your stories about this, keeping yourselves in check, and learning and growing on how to be both humble and confident.
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