What Most People Get Wrong When it Comes to Productivity

It’s important to plan our day, otherwise other people will plan it for us. If you let it, the whole day will fill up with little tasks and answering questions and just quickly lending a hand – then you sit down at the end of the day and wonder why you haven’t made any headway […]

The Ten Habits of the Most Successful Dental Practice Owners

The ten habits of the most successful dental practice owners

After working with hundreds of dental practice owners around the country, I’ve begun to notice a few patterns. The most successful practice owners with booming dental practices tend to possess similar habits that serve them well in leadership, business, and life in general. I wanted to share the habits of the most successful dental practice […]

Mastering Effective Delegation

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Great leaders are also great delegators. If you go into practice ownership trying to do everything yourself, you’ll never get the time and freedom you’re looking for and only stunt your practices growth. Delegation allows you to maximise time, productivity, and the combined skill set of your team, whilst reducing key person risk. It’s also […]

How to Structure Your Appointment Book

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A well-structured appointment book makes all the difference to your efficiency, patient experience, and workflow. It’s a common principle in dentistry, and there are many ways to approach the appointment book in search of optimal efficiency. Overall, these are the methods we have found most useful for prioritising your time and reaching profit goals. An […]

How To Be A Confident Decision Maker, Defeat Stress And Overcome Setbacks

There’s no doubt that running your own business can be super stressful. When you invest your time, life and money in a business you have to accept that there’s always going to be a challenge waiting to test your limits, and sometimes life can throw you a mean curveball when it wants to. Being a […]

Make Time For Success – Your Guide To Time Management

The biggest problem we face today is our desire to get more time. If only there were more minutes in an hour or more hours in a day. So much left to do with so little time. And this desire makes us focus on what we don’t and can’t have rather than trying to repair […]

176. Get more time

You will definitely find Episode 176 of the Savvy Dentist Podcast very interesting if you are someone who has a to-do list longer than the time you have to complete it. Les Watson, also known as “The Time Lord”, is a time management and productivity expert who will share his knowledge with us to help us finally get stuff done. Our conversation includes tips on how to get the most of your day and focus on the things that really matter to take your practice to the next level.

Les is the author of the book “Get Back An Hour In Every Day – The A to Z of Being More Productive”. The book features an A to Z format that you can use as a quick resource when you are faced with a specific time–related problem. He has over 30 years of training, speaking and facilitating experience in self-management, motivation and communication techniques. He has worked with numerous corporations, small businesses and individuals all over Australia and South East Asia.

How to run high performance meetings!

So how many of you have slept through meetings at work? I can imagine almost all of you sheepishly nodding your heads. We’ve all been there. Meetings can be dull and unproductive. Because of this bad reputation, most small businesses avoid meetings because they’d rather do something more ‘productive’ with their time. Meetings are important […]

164. How to Run Meaningful Meetings

Often, we find ourselves too busy to give time for the important things that we should be focusing on.

In this episode, Elise Keith of Lucid Meetings joins us to talk about a fundamental tool that can assist you in business productivity – meetings. Elise is an expert at running high-performance meetings to get outcomes. Their company specializes in turning organizations with an underperforming or dysfunctional meeting culture into organisations that use meetings to their competitive advantage.

7 Easy Ways to Use Focus and Discipline to Achieve Goals.

This week I want to talk about something that will help us be more effective in our roles within and beyond our practice. In some way we all strive towards self-improvement every day. But it can be a struggle. It takes continuous discipline and focus. It’s certainly not easy but it is definitely, doable. Here […]