Practice Management Tips

Prominent Beverly Hills Cosmetic Dentist Teams Up With Sterling Practice Management

Dr. Maddahi has partnered with Sterling Practice Management to present a unique webinar

Prominent cosmetic dentist Dr. Kourosh Maddahi has partnered with Sterling Practice Management to present a series of webinars and workshops which address real-world challenges faced by dentists today and how to overcome them.

Dr. Maddahi, a practicing dentist for over 30 years, whose work has been featured on Oprah, The Doctors, 10 Years Younger, Entertainment Tonight, Extra and CNN, has built a renowned practice focused on Cosmetic Dentistry in the most competitive beauty market in the world: Beverly Hills.

 

5 Ways to Increase Profit at a Dental Practice

Profitability is a key factor in how to make a dental office more efficient

Sterling Practice Management - Glendale, CA: A crucial factor in how to make a dental office more efficient is profitability. Higher profitability means a practice can better achieve its mission of providing cutting-edge services. It can afford to hire skilled staff, offer employee benefits or buy new equipment. And that is all in addition to the individual financial benefit to the dentist. So how do you get your practice there?

Here are five key ways to increase dental practice profit.

 

Too Much Work and Too Little Money Got You Down?

The Importance of Dental Practice Management is shown here in this tip from Sterling Practice Management

Sterling Practice Management - Glendale, CA: If you are working hard providing high-quality dental care to a lot of people, yet find yourself with very little money to show for it, you probably fell into the following trap. Somewhere along the line you didn’t have many patients, or you felt that your patient numbers were dwindling. So, you agreed to see patients from very low paying HMO and PPO plans as well as welfare patients.

 

No Need to Get Mad or Apathetic

Don't go apathetic. Apply this tip from Sterling Practice Management.

Sterling Practice Management - Glendale, CA: Do you sometimes have staff who fail to do what you want them to do? Most owners and managers run into this situation to varying degrees. How can you tell if a staff member genuinely needs help or if they are actually working against you?

Here’s the key: A staff member who is truly not working with you as a team player continually fails to comply with what you want done.

 

Motivation and Purpose

Sterling Practice Management gives tips on how to get staff on the same page so they perform at maximum like this man running at full speed

Sterling Practice Management, Glendale, CA: Every so often it can be observed that the practice owner or employees seem to forget why they are there. And when they do, upsets occur and production suffers.

 

How to Increase Your Treatment Acceptance

Sterling Practice Management gives a tip on how to increase treatment acceptance

Sterling Practice Management, Glendale, CA: You’ll never believe this, but one of the best ways to increase treatment acceptance is to be quiet and listen. That’s right. Most of our practice owner clients talk too much and listen too little. They just do all the talking and never listen to the patient.

Here's what you should do: Ask a question and then just be quiet and listen. It makes a huge difference for them.

 

Avoid Lawyers and Lawsuits

Sterling Practice Management gives tips on how any practice can avoid lawsuits

Sterling Practice Management - Glendale, CA: As a practice or business owner, have you ever been concerned about possible malpractice suits? Have you been worried about legal action arising from perceived or actual customer or client complaints? Perhaps you have been involved in one or more such lawsuits.

At Sterling Practice Management, we ran across what we think is a great idea which can save you possible heartache, stress, and money.

 

How to Motivate Your Staff and Get Them on the Same Page

Dental Staff Retention is key and Sterling Practice Management gives tips on that.

Sterling Practice Management Glendale, CA: One excellent method of ensuring Dental Staff Retention is to play games with your staff and reward high production and accomplishment.

Doing this often will get your employees all on the same page and motivated to help you achieve your practice or company goals.

 

Didn’t You Forget Someone Important?

Sterling Practice Management tip to reward yourself when you and your staff win a production game.

Sterling Practice Management - Glendale, CA: Many of our clients reward their staff with money or time off or shopping sprees and so on, when they reach the practice goals of production and collections, or have highest ever numbers.

Recently, we found out that more often than not, they forget to reward themselves!

Make sure when you present a new game to your staff, that you, too, have something you are playing for!

 

Top Practice Management Consultant Gives Tips on Time Management

Sterling Practice Management's top consultant gives tips on how to handle time management

Sterling Practice Management Glendale, CA: As a Practice Management Consultant providing advice to clients, I have had numerous clients complain to me that they have "no time." They often do not take time off for themselves or never have time to manage the practice while also being the practitioner. Or their spouse complains that they never see them.

 

Finding the Right Staff and Dealing With the Different Personalities of Staff

Dental Practice Analysis will be easy when you have the right staff

Sterling Practice Management Glendale, CA: In any Dental Practice Analysis, the subject of personnel ranks high in situations that a practice owner has to confront and overcome. Here are some tips from Sterling Practice Management's Senior Consultant.

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