North Texas Dentistry Magazine, Volume 3 Issue 7 | Page 13

? What can I do to make it easier for a patient to move forward with needed treatment? That is just the start. In short, it is not the answers we don’t know that create the biggest problems, but the questions we haven’t even thought to ask! The best leaders aren’t the ones who have all the answers, but the ones who are asking the questions. Eighty percent of effective leadership is getting the entire team thinking about the right things in the first place. You get people thinking by the questions you ask, not the answers you give. Get started today by asking your team some of the following questions: ? ? ? ? ? What are the most effective things we do to create a great patient experience? What else could we be doing to improve the excellence of our clinical service? How could we make it even easier for our patients to move ahead with treatment that they really want and need? What would cause our patients to talk about us to everyone they know? What do patients like least about going to the dentist and what do we do instead to make it a great e