“Are you really leading if you’re walking in front but no one is following you?” -Dr. Danny Nguyen
The surest way to dismantle a dental team is to micromanage them. You might think you’re ensuring your team meets your high standards, but what you’re really showing them is that you don’t trust them. And while there’s nothing wrong with holding people to high standards, micromanagement frustrates and grates on people until they finally break and leave your practice.
Dr. Danny Nguyen experienced this problem first-hand. Six months after graduating he “came out of dental school guns blazing so to speak.” He knew what systems and processes to put in place and had very specific ways he wanted his team to perform each task. And it worked…for a while. His practice grew quickly, but there was only so much the team could handle and they soon became frustrated and irritated.
“I said I trusted them,” says Dr. Danny, “but it was clear that I didn’t and I had a lot of excuses about how I was treating them. I see now that I was treating them like numbers and saw them for how much I could get out of them. I lost great team members who helped me get as far as I did because I saw them as a dollar amount not as family.”
But his story doesn’t end there! We love to make your lives easier, so join us today as Dr. Danny shares his story, and what he did to get himself and his practice back on the right track, so you can learn from his experience and avoid the costs of micromanagement, including:
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The real-life repercussions of not trusting your team
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Rediscovering your purpose
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Game-changing action steps for leadership development
https://productivedentist.com/podcasts/everyday-practices-podcast/episode-147-toxic-dental-leadership-and-how-to-break-the-habit-with-dr-danny-nguyen/
Toxic Dental Leadership