Good leaders reflexively know what environment they’re in. Consider it your role-awareness or more practically knowing what “hat” you’re wearing.
The “hats” you wear as a dentist change. As a Dentrepreneur®? you’ll learn to recognize your power to leverage them to grow your dental enterprise.
If you don’t…you’re destined to the same frustrations that burden your colleagues and burdened you until you decided to change “hats.”
What “hat” are you wearing…right now?
I suspect that you’re wearing whatever “hat” the present task, challenge, or circumstance demands that you wear.
And that might be the core of your problem.
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Your “hat-rack” will remain full as long as you allow it. So, what am I talking about here?
Let’s define the “hats” you wear as a dental professional.
1-The dentist as “clinician”
This would appear to be your core role. It is, after all, what you’re educated, trained, and practiced to do.
You diagnose, treatment plan, and treat patients. There is more to the role of course, but this is the basic day to day of the dentist as clinician.
2-The dentist as “manager”
This is ground-zero of your role in the business of your practice. It’s hiring, firing, payroll, property, purchasing, and signing-off on all the above.
Managing your practice extracts a heavy toll on you, right? Combined with your clinician role it’s enough to send you home bone-tired at the end of the day.
The turning point: where average dentists acquire above-average “hats.” Following are the two emerging roles (hats) that are more suited to you as a Dentrepreneur®?.
3-The dentist or emerging Dentrepreneur®? as “leader”
Leadership defines a more preferable future for you as a dental professional.
When you begin to think like a Dentrepreneur®? instead of a solo practitioner your “hats” will change. TWEET THIS
Leading a dental enterprise is a completely different game than managing a dental practice. The basic outcomes are the same but the scope and scale are much larger.
We’ll talk about the “how” later.
4-The all-in Dentrepreneur®? as CEO and Mentor
Duplication is the label on this “hat.” At this level and role you’ve moved past the become-all-things-to-all-needs dentist and you’re now accomplishing more through a team of self-starters who own the DNA of your enterprise.
- You’ve long since stopped managing.
- You’re mentoring clinicians as much or more than you’re clinically involved.
- You’re leading teams of dental professionals rather than one team of professionals.
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Try on these four “hats” for a few days or weeks. Do a careful self-assessment of the ones you wear, how you feel about wearing them, what you want to change about your role(s), etc.
Then…
Return for the next post (or two) and discover how to scale your dental enterprise so you’re leveraging the best of your role. There’s a community of role-shifters, like you, who want to accomplish more through dentistry.
Contact us about your current role as a dental professional.