What Goes Around Comes Around: Keep practice communication on track with the Awareness Wheel

Congratulations! You have just completed a very productive morning schedule. You’re feeling great! Your career in dentistry is just what you dreamed it would be….Or is it? 

You reluctantly walk into a staff meeting (not your favorite part of owning a practice) and “it” begins. You remind your hygienist to take digital photos on recare patients. In a flash, arms go up, eye contact intensifies, her face turns red and she frantically replies, “I don’t have time.” Communication quickly comes to a standstill and you decide that it just isn’t worth spending more time on this issue. You retreat and decide you will do it on your own (or not at all). This recurring breakdown of communication has confirmed to you that staff meetings ARE a waste of time!

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