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Skills Inventory

Robyn Reis, Director of All-Star Hiring Service, discusses how to use seasonal slumps to assess skills, foster team growth, and enhance learning to keep your dental practice motivated and thriving.

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About Robyn Reis

Robyn began her dental career in 1998 as a marketing and communications director for a large group practice, and instantly fell in love with the world of dentistry. She has spent every waking moment since learning, growing and collaborating with dentists and their teams utilizing her expertise in all aspects of dental practice management, marketing, communications, HR, continuing education, and laboratory sales. Robyn’s personal goals are to make a difference in someone’s life every single day and to give the best of herself to those around her.

Episode Transcript

Transcript performed by A.I. Please excuse the typos.

00:02

This is Dental All-Stars, where we bring you the best in dentistry on marketing, management, and training. Hi everyone. Robyn Reis, Director of All-Stars Hiring Service with your hiring tip for today. And if you haven’t already seen it, Alex and I recently did a podcast about the summer slump. And really what a great time when patients might be on vacation, the schedule might be a little slow. Your team members.

 

00:30

might be out of the office too, trying to soak up the last minute of the summer sun. Take a skills inventory. Now is a great time to really sit down with your team and talk about what is it that we’d like to learn? Where can we professionally grow? And do a skills inventory. Does the administrative team want to learn more clinical procedures that you’re doing, maybe more about sleep or…

 

00:56

other comprehensive treatment or things like that. Does your clinical team want to understand more about the administrative area or maybe more technology or doing more lab work? And clinical team, if you’re making temporaries are a little rusty or pouring up models and mounting models are a little rusty and you want to go back to those basics, now is a great time.

 

01:23

really sharpen the saw as Dr. Stephen Covey would say is really refine and do a skills inventory and assessment of what it is you would like to continue to learn. In the summer it tends to be a little more laid back. I know our pediatric practices man they are absolutely stepping on the gas. It is pedal to the metal and going full force until kids go back to school and

 

01:52

I know that there’s plenty of time where we might have a little extra to, to spend, to really work on our business. And that is really about skills inventory, understanding what you know, what you’d like to know and team members speak up and let your doctor know, Hey, I’m interested in learning. I want to find out more about something that will really help me be a better team member.

 

02:21

research has shown us or told us that people really want to professionally grow. They want to grow and be a part of a team that is fulfilling and rewarding. And we know that team members that get to work with people they enjoy do things that they enjoy and continuously learn will stay a long, long time. And isn’t that all what we want? So.

 

02:46

Take this summer slump and learn to do a skills inventory, figure out what keeps your team motivated, and continue to strive as you always do to do your best. Thanks again for listening and see you next time. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Dental All-Stars. Visit us online at allstardentalacademy.com

 

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