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How much would you love to improve your business’s profitability by 43%? That’s what Kiera did after reading the book Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman. One of Mister Wickman’s tips? Have Level 10 meetings! Level 10 meetings mean your entire team is engaged and progressing — and remember, progress equals happiness. Kiera gives a rundown:

1. Check-in
2. Expectations
3. Accountability Follow-up
4. Brain Dump
5. Problem-Solving
6. Accountability Checklist
7. Rating the Meeting

In this episode, learn what I-D-S stands for and how it can fix a problem … forever! It’s all waiting for you, just hit play! And as always, head over to www.TheDentalATeam.com for more.  

Today’s episode is a lovely dose of summer-lovin’ with Summer Kassmel! How can you establish a goal-oriented office? Kiera and Summer lay down their own tips, including Summer’s unique approach when her team almost-but-not-quite hit all four of their May goals. Instead of letting it slide, she gathered the group around for discussion — what went wrong? How could the team learn? Solutions came from all corners!

A few tips to get your own teams motivated:

1. As a leader, know your vision
2. Give your team the tools to reach those goals
3. When goals aren’t met, use it as a learning opportunity
4. Take ownership as leader

Remember: An effective office trickles down from the leader. Kiera closes with a great canoe race example that shows how important good leaders are.

Interested in seeing Kiera and Summer and other professional women in the dentistry field live? Attend the Women Dentists Connect event this October in Scottsdale, AZ! Details can be found at ...

Are you hungry for some Dental Nachos? Kiera virtually sits down with Paul Goodman and Ariel Meredith of Dental Nachos in this episode, and the group dives into the challenges facing new dentists when it comes to buying a practice. Dental school is four long years of good education, but there’s often a missing piece — learning how to actually buy a practice. Often recent grads will take the less scary routes of residency or associate positions because they don’t have the guidance they need.

Dental Nachos can help! Paul and Ariel share the coaching they offer when prospective practice owners call them with questions about where should they be looking, how to go about purchasing a practice, whether there’s anyone in the area looking to sell, examples of specific brokers, etc.

Plus, Paul shares what an ideal first practice looks like:

• Over $700 K in collections
• Five operatories or more
• A solid team
• The location is somewhere you might want to live for the next...

Does running a mile relate to running a business? It sure does! In this solo episode, Kiera gives tips on effectively managing your time, whether you’re a doctor or a team member. Spoiler alert: That means NOT whipping through emails and half-heartedly answering questions.

Doctors, stop wasting time in your office! Team members, look for ways to be more efficient! The best offices run on teamwork, and that’s the love Kiera’s spreading in this episode. Some of her tips include:

• Doctors staying on the floor and not in their offices (except lunch time and end of day)
• Creating a desk staging area next to operatories for downtime
• Setting time aside for administrative work

Those are the highlights, now listen to this quick episode for the reasons behind them!

Want to learn more? Head on over to www.TheDentalATeam.com. 

The number one trait consultants need to have is to….

Kiera and Tiffanie spill the beans in this episode on a day in the life of a consultant. The two discuss what their first impressions of being a consultant were, and how Kiera’s Dental Consulting is different from your Average Joe.

Before Kiera and Tiffanie head to a new office, they ask one question: If we could change one thing in your dentist practice, what would it be? Questions like these personalize offices to consultants, and that’s what this episode is about — walking into a practice KNOWING you’re about to change lives.

Give this episode and more a listen at www.TheDentalATeam.com.

Kiera is fresh off a Dental Nachos event, and she’s sharing a big take-away: the differences between doctors and team members. Folks, it’s time to align perspectives once and for all — the right dental team helps a business grow and be more profitable.

1. A few steps to getting there:
2. Talk numbers and be okay with it
3. Build goals together
4. Motivate your team (and be creative about it!)
5. Appreciate an outside perspective

It boils down to this: Doctors, if you don’t have a profitable practice, you are not a good leader or owner. If you have a business, you should be making money; if not, it’s just a hobby. Give this episode a listen and Kiera will walk you through how the above steps will help grow your business and the community working around you.

More episodes on owning or working in a successful dental practice are just a click away at www.TheDentalATeam.com.

Mark and Kiera are reunited! In this episode, the two discuss quarterly calibration meetings for team members. Did you know human nature causes us to fall off track of our goals after 90 days? Quarterly meetings can help keep your office focused, especially when Kiera and Mark are involved and calibrated language is used.

Mark shares what it means to have productive meetings using the PITA method:

• Present & Participation
• Intention
• Time
• Agenda

Kiera discusses the 8-hour meeting she held just that day, including why the hour-and-a-half spent on office morale was the best conversation they could’ve had.

The two also pour their hearts out on the implementation of AirPods in their lives. This episode + more at www.TheDentalATeam.com.

Motivating people to do something they don’t want to do is hard. A listener requested Kiera discuss this topic, and she delivers, presenting six action items for talking to someone who doesn’t want to do his or her job.

1. Find out why
2. Clear expectations
3. Right seat, right office
4. Educated and comfortable
5. Recommended solutions
6. Self-assessments

Office managers and team members alike, this topic is an important one, and is necessary for a positive office. These tried and true methods provide clear ways to figure out whether or not a team member is right for your office. This topic, as well as many other useful discussions, can be found at www.TheDentalATeam.com. Are there topics you’d like to request? Contact the team here

This car-casting episode is all about the benefits of having an accountability partner or coach. That’s right, someone who’s constantly in your corner, talking you through your struggles and wins. The first step is learning the difference between goals and intentions — which one is a raindrop, which one is an entire ocean.

Does your practice want 10% growth? To lower overhead to 50%? To complete its operations manual? Break the goals down by department. What does the front office need to do? The office manager? An accountability coach can help set intentions, goals, mile markers, and (the most important part) check-ins.

Among many other things, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is a social media ~pro~ when it comes to dentistry, and in this episode, she chats with Kiera about how she’s gained her 135K Instagram followers, what she might have done differently knowing what she knows now, and why bad news in the middle of her honeymoon actually made her stronger. But first, Dr. Yazdan’’s basics for social media: