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23 Feb 2023 • Podcasts, Practice Management

Maximising your potential in practice

Katrina Rees, Area Manager at Practice Plan shares her top tips for maximising potential in your dental practice and identifying new opportunities in your business. What you’ll hear: How the current landscape is affecting costs…

10 Feb 2023 • Blog, Customer Service

Sort your core and let the chips fall where they may

Practice Plan’s Creative Director, Les Jones, talks about the importance of nailing your fundamental purpose in business. Over the new year, I went away with my wife and a group of friends to the Welsh…

20 Dec 2022 • Blog, Mental Health

Thinking like a Community – or a Dental Practice?

Area Manager, Gary Nelson muses on the need for a sense of community to return to the workplace. These past few weeks and months I have observed many times the importance of community and belonging.…

12 Dec 2022 • Blog, Communication

How to survive the staff retention crisis – top 5 tips

Despite the squeeze on the economy, at the moment there are more job vacancies than unemployed people, while the number of people moving from job-to-job has reached a record high. Dental practices in particular are…

31 Mar 2022 • Podcasts, Practice Management

Boosting creativity in your dental practice

Les Jones, Creative Director at Practice Plan Group shares his top tips for encouraging and boosting creativity within your team and practice. What you’ll hear: What is creativity Setting stretch goals in practice Asking questions…

28 Feb 2022 • Podcasts, Practice Management

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in dentistry

Jessica Wilkes-Ball, Social Responsibility Lead at Wesleyan is joined with Naheem Ahmed, Inclusion and Diversity Manager at Wesleyan to talk about the importance of EDI and his top tips for embedding it in the workplace.…

25 Nov 2022 • Blog

Stimulate creativity in your practices

Les Jones throws the spotlight on creativity and encourages practices to believe in their potential to find creative ways to solve problems. People talk about left-brain and right-brain thinking, and traditionally the left brain is…

1 Jun 2022 • Blog

How to set goals and stick to them

Shelley Clegg caught up with Executive Coach and founder of GuruYou coaching, Rebecca Mander, to talk about setting goals and how they can help you in your practice… SC: Setting goals in your practice is…

2 Aug 2022 • Blog

How to create a motivated team

Dental Business Consultant, Lucie Simic shares some ideas on how, by uncovering their goals and aspirations, you can build a motivated team. One of the main tools I use to motivate a team is the…

10 Jun 2022 • Blog

Suicide awareness – don’t be afraid to ask.

Louise Bone talks about suicide awareness and the need to keep an eye on those around us. Starting on 13th June, Professor John Gibson, his wife Isobel and some friends will begin a marathon walk…

6 May 2022 • Blog, HR

Top tips to help when conducting job interviews

Lesley Turner, looks at tips you can use when you’re interviewing candidates for your vacant position in practice … The process of recruiting a new staff member can be difficult. With things getting busier as…

25 Jan 2022 • Marketing, News

The positive and negative impacts of social media on dentists

Medenta’s Lesley Turner recently caught up with young dentist Hiraa Jamil and John Lewis of mental health charity Confidental, to talk about social media and the positive and negative impacts of promoting your dental work…