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What is systemic resilience and how can it help you and your employees?

Leadership coach Johanna Hooper looks at systemic resilience and how it can help you in practice…. ‘What is systemic resilience?’ I hear you saying. I know, it’s a bit of a mouthful isn’t it. Well,…

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Six ways to show your staff how much you appreciate them

Regional Support Manager Donna Hall brings you six ways to show your team how much you appreciate them… The team you have around you are the life and soul of the practice, but it can…

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How to keep your team motivated

Practice Plan Regional Support Manager, Lou Bone, looks at what you can do to motivate you and your team following a tough few years…. It’s safe to say that practice staff really have had a…

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The importance of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace

Wesleyan’s Inclusion and Diversity Manager, Naheem Ahmed looks at Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace and why it is important for practices to comply with the law… What is Equality, Diversity and Inclusion? When…

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Making changes to contracted hours

Employment and HR Lawyer, Sarah Buxton, lays out the correct process you need to follow when it comes to changing your teams contracted hours… There may come a time in your practice where, for one…

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The benefit of personal progress interviews

Practice Plan Regional Support Manager, Josie Hutchings, looks at why ‘personal progress interviews’ are better than appraisals and how you can get the most out of them… When it comes to reviewing the performances of…

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Top tips for staff induction programmes

Zoe Close looks at what you need to include in induction programmes to give your new staff the best chance of succeeding in their new role… It can be quite daunting for a new employee…

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How to future-proof your practice (and your life)

There have been many lessons to learn over the past two years, but perhaps one of the biggest is that the future is unpredictable and uncontrollable. Which means that there’s an even greater reason to…

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Stop firefighting and concentrate on being a great team leader

Business Coach, Chris Barrow explains why, after two years of dealing with the problems caused by the pandemic, it’s time to adopt a different attitude and start looking to the future again and developing our…

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Tips on how to become a good leader

Johanna Hooper is a performance coach specialising in leadership, who has spent time working in senior positions within the armed forces. She has helped hundreds of people with leadership techniques and given people advice on…

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Employed or self-employed? Presenting a clear difference.

Solicitor, Sarah Buxton, looks at how to clearly define whether your associates are employed, or self-employed. The issue of employment status has, aside from the pandemic, been arguably one of the biggest topics in dentistry…

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Three ways to boost your team’s morale

Josie Hutchings, Regional Support Manager at Practice Plan, looks at three ways you can help boost your team’s morale…   Over the last 18 months, the morale of teams in many businesses will have been…

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Should I fill a gap in my team or not?

Practice Plan Area Manager, Suki Singh, talks about the recruitment problem and whether it’s better to fill a gap in your team or re-align your workload if the right member of staff is not available……

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Does confusion reign in the absence of a Plan?

Regional Sales Manager, Gary Nelson, explains how taking time to plan can help you regain some control in an uncertain world. The past two years have seen our personal and business lives often under the…

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Michael Bentley on falling in love with dentistry and why it is never too late to learn new skills

We caught up with Dental Consultant, Michael Bentley, to discuss his varied career path, how he came to fall in love with dentistry, and why it is never too late to learn new skills…  …

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Confidence and how you and your team can develop it

Head of Sales, Zoe Close, caught up with Executive Coach Rebecca Mander, to talk about confidence, where it comes from, how we build it and why it is never too late to develop it… ZC:…

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Displacement…

It is widely recognised that most dental practices will lose 5% of their patients in any given (normal) year. A multitude of reasons – financial, moving house, death, illness, change in circumstances, the list goes on.

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Recruiting the ideal team player

Business Coach, Chris Barrow, gives you a guide on what to look for when you’re trying to recruit the ideal team player…

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