Jo Phillpot shares her advice on how to make finding your next team member a smooth process… If ‘teamwork makes the dream work’, then recruitment can sometimes be the stuff of nightmares. A strong team makes a practice run smoothly and efficiently, so when there is a gap to fill it can feel like a… Read More
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Dental Team
Do your patients know about your plan?
To grow the number of patients on your dental payment plan, you need a structured approach. Once the plan has been in place for a while and an embedded part of your practice, it can be easy to lose focus on it. Because it’s familiar to you, you can fall into a trap of thinking… Read More
The fine line between friend and colleague – and how to strike the right balance
I started working as a dental nurse 20 years ago and have made strong friendships within the practice over the years. After going on maternity leave I was asked to come back as the practice manager. I had a very close bond with one particular nurse and I knew that this could change the dynamic… Read More
Improve your staff appraisals to boost team and business performance
It’s not that long ago that it would have been unusual for a dental practice team to even have staff appraisals. Nowadays, you may well be having them, especially as they can feed into meeting the CQC’s well-led Key Line of Enquiry, but do you feel they are really benefitting your team members and your… Read More
Getting down to business with Louise Beddow
Louise Beddow is the Sales Manager at DPAS, heading up the team of Business Development Consultants. With her experience both at DPAS over the past nine years, and prior to this as a manger of UK sales teams in the industrial and commercial advertising sector, she has a wealth of skills in team-management. Here she… Read More
What the employment status means for associates and principals
Louise Beddow seeks advice and clarity on the implications of the review into associates’ employment status… There have been several indicators recently that change could be afoot for associates in terms of their self-employed status. In the courts, Uber lost an appeal against a ruling that two of its drivers were ‘workers’ rather than self-employed,… Read More
