“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” - Albert Schweitzer 1
Self-made? You hear those words used frequently.
They describe the boot-strapping idea that we’ve all grown accustomed to in life…and business.
But is it healthy?
Sure, you want to own your progress. That’s why you’ve chosen to step away from status quo dentistry.
An honest assessment will reveal something more healthy and sustaining. Ready?
You didn’t get to where you are today alone. You had help.
The same will be true for your dental group.
Someone at some specific season of life inspired you. If you buried your talent, enterprising vision, clinical skill, etc where would you be today?
Your team(s) throughout your dental group are seeking and will seek the same encounter you experienced. And it requires a brand of dentrepreneurial leadership to ignite them.
Your ultimate responsibility as a dentrepreneurial leader
Few recognize their worth to the world at large much less in their work. This enhances the GROW solution that we implement throughout the dentrepreneurial organizations we serve.
Your leadership responsibility as a Dentrepreneur®? is to ignite the sense of worth that each person brings to your group. TWEET THIS
The compelling result is that they’ll see it (individually) in themselves.
Leadership function flows outward into your group and the teams that serve them. GROW works but it comes with an innate challenge.
The challenge of organizational growth and leadership
Ultimately your team members will apply their newfound GROWth as a gift to contribute to the organization. The recognized worth of the one adds a unique contribution to their team.
Individuals will contribute to the collective purpose of the team. It’s their ownership of their unique worth to that purpose that creates or stalls momentum in your organization.
And this rises and falls on…you guessed it - leadership! Let’s start a conversation with an overview of your roles as a dentrepreneurial leader.
Four Leadership Values That Can Propel the GROW Culture in Your Dental Group
1-Exemplify - set the tone for your organization
“Speed of the leader - speed of the team.” Makes sense, right?
Someone sets the tone in your group’s culture. GROW requires that you (the Dentrepreneur®?) lead the way. TWEET THIS
It can be as simple as your daily attitude and can extend to your tone (of fairness and solution orientation) when confronting a team member.
What’s modeled will be repeated. Make sure it exemplifies the right tone.
2-Pioneer - set the course as one
The “pioneer” image reveals the identity you and your dental group must strive to maintain. Your success as a Dentrepreneur®? is sustained by a consistent willingness to make paths where there are none.
It’s essential that your pioneering approach to GROWth includes others. Climb the next ridge to get your bearings but return to base camp, rally your team, and make the journey with them.
3-Align - set the processes (scale)
Your systems serve you or they enslave you. GROW-centric leadership asks whether the next initiative should be or is scalable. We will talk more about SCALE in future posts - stay tuned.
Alignment is about clarity of focus, saying “no” to what doesn’t fit your vision, and staying true to what’s working. TWEET THIS
For now assess and make necessary adjustments to your group processes to check and maintain alignment.
4-Empower - set your team “free” to go and GROW
Results are the goal. The talent embedded within your team is capable to deliver.
A primary GROW inhibitor is micro-management. Let go of control, champion results, stand ready to coach/help, and set your group free to produce.
GROWth doesn’t happen overnight. It also doesn’t happen by default.
Contact us about GROWing your dental group and join our community of like-minded Dentrepreneurs®? today.
1-Source: Stephen R. Covey, The 8th Habit - From Effectiveness to Greatness, p. 97.