“Everything rises and falls on leadership.” If that statement is true what does it reveal about you and how you practice dentistry?
Is it about leading your patients to treatment plan acceptance? What about leading your team to deliver outstanding patient-care?
Or…
Is the art of dental leadership (or dentrepreneurship) about both and much more?
Either way, you are (as we speak) the leader or the follower in your career path. It’s riskier on the leadership side but entirely more fulfilling.
How so?
I believe you would agree that most days you spend your time reacting. You react to your scheduled treatment, to the gaps in your schedule, to an assistant’s chair side pace, to your team’s productivity, to your dental practice profit and loss statements, to production.
You name it.
Tweet: Dentrepreneurship doesn’t change the circumstances that surround your dental practice. It changes your perspective.
The Two Questions that You Must Fearlessly Answer to Create and Grow a Sustainable Future as Dentrepreneur
1-Are you doing what you love?
This and the question to follow are essentially about self-awareness. As a leader, you must be keenly self-aware (fearlessly so).
Ultimately your leadership is about heart. It’s knowing your “why” and it’s so compelling it drives your passion.
- Why you love your industry.
- Why you love your specialty.
- Why you love your practice.
- Why you love your location.
- Why you love working alongside your team.
And the BIG why…
- Why will you love doing this five, 10, 20 years from now?
That leads to the second question.
2-Are you loving what you do?
It may sound somewhat similar to the first question. Yet, this question has more to do with the “how” part of your daily work.
How will you do your work in a way that taps into your love for being a dental professional? How will you reveal your love for what you do?
Let’s go deeper and talk legacy.
Is how you’re doing dentistry today creating a better future?
Are you building…
- a distinct culture?
- a top performance team of leaders?
- excellence in patient care delivery?
- efficiency into your entrepreneurial strategies?
Will your legacy be evident tomorrow, next month, next year, two years, five years from now?
As a dentrepreneur you’re a thought-leader. You want to make a mark in your particular corner of the universe.
And you’re convinced that what separates successful dentrepreneurs from everyone else is pure courage and perseverance. You want your organization to create value beyond merely generating income.
Two principles are implied in this post’s opening statement. “Everything rises (lift) and falls (landing) on leadership.”
Lift and landing
The DSO model has taken off and the landscape in dentistry is changing. There is still plenty of room for more to take-off-and-land on the “runway.”
Now is the time to lift yourself, your team, and your patients. Ultimately, that’s the essence of your love for dentistry and your distinct model to deliver optimum care to others.
Tweet: The more “lift” you provide the more patients are helped, served, treated, and healed.
Where you “land” is contingent on your approach. This is the “how” of what you do to build your dental career.
Creating a sustainable dental legacy requires leadership. And it might call you to a level of leadership you’re not currently prepared to reach.
Check your pulse. Tweet: There’s a growing community of “dentrepreneurs” prepared to lead their practice, and ultimately their legacy, to new heights.
Is that you?