Achieving Practice Success Through Strategic Planning

Your practice can become successful through strategic planning which helps you stay ahead of your competitors. For a successful Dental Practice Management, one needs:

Team to enhance efficiency and provide better service to dental patients :

• Team work is very important while working in a dental clinic set- up.
• Respect your staff's individuality. Recognize your teams strengths and weaknesses and co- ordinate your activities accordingly.

Define Roles and Delegation of tasks

• Learn to delegate unimportant or trivial tasks to junior staff, so that you can focus on the bigger issues
• Delegate tasks to others reduces the stress levels
• It also provides an increased job satisfaction
• The job role of each and every staff member must be well defined.
• Eliminate any barriers to communication:

Training your juniors and staff

• The staff should be trained, mentored and motivated
• Any repeated delays or mistakes must be promptly addressed 
• Everyone in your clinic   must understand the procedures offered in your Dental Practice.
• Besides knowing their own jobs well, staff members must be provided with an overview of all kinds of services provided by colleagues in your practice.

Invest in your dental practice

• Invest in better technology, and try to include more and more services in the treatment plan.
• Invest in instruments, appliances and gadgets that are more efficient and cut short any treatment time.
• Investing in a Radio-Visuo-graph is a big plus, as it saves time spent in processing the regular X- ray films, reduces the radiation exposure and is economical in long term.
• Replace any outdated or redundant appliances or gadgets with the latest ones.
• Add more and more appliances or practices which enhance patient safety.

Hiring talented dental management consultants

• It is not always possible for a single person to gain all the skills and apply them correctly.
• Hiring and working with dental management consultants can maximize and improve your Dental Practice earnings.

Dental Office Financial Management, book keeping, banking and budgeting

• At the end of each financial year, you must discuss with an able accountant about the progress and performance of your dental practice and plan for the future accordingly.
• Focus on eliminating any wasteful expenditures
• Depending upon whether you have a manual or computerized book keeping and data storage, you must choose the best options for maintaining dental records and manage your dental practice budget .
• You may need to hire an accountant or an accounting firm to plan, maintain and update your tax and insurance

Enhancement of your Skills

Never stop learning. A dental professional must enhance his/her skills- both as a professional as well as a person.

Enhancing your personality:

• Continuously grow as a person, as an individual and excel in your personal relations with your family and friends.
• Join a hobby club, a social welfare organization, or a place which provides you a constructive outlet to your creativity.

Enhancing your professional skills:

• You may continue learning through many of the Online Dental Education Courses and Certifications.
• Learn about all the latest dental management softwares, dentistry apparatus, and more effecient ways to accomplish the dental treatments.
• Actively participate in all the regular dentistry meets of your local dental associations, conferences and workshops.