March 22, 2022 by bettyhayden

Dental Office Management and Leadership Tips and Ideas for April 2022

Hello Friends,

Now is the time to welcome Spring and your second quarter for this year. Be sure to review your plans to make this second quarter your best one yet! What are your plans to exceed your patients’ and potential patients’ expectations? Ensure that everyone on the team is on the same page.

Remember that it is most important to consistently exceed your employees’ expectations. We all need a work environment and culture that refreshes us instead of being a drag and a drain on us.

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One of the most common issues that I hear from dental employees is that they don’t feel appreciated. Feeling a lack of gratitude is often the main reason why they leave their employer or suffer a decline in positivity and productivity.

National Fun at Work Day: 1st – Do something different, unexpected, and fun today. Have a silly theme for this day. (For example, Crazy hair, silly socks, decades day, etc. POST pictures on Facebook and Instagram)

National Mani-pedi Day: 25th – How about treating your employees to a mani-pedi spa day?

Doctors, if you’re struggling to reach your practice goals or want to improve the culture and spirit of your practice – feel free to contact me for a complimentary, no-obligation 30-minute telephone consultation at bhaydenconsulting@gmail.com to see if a coaching relationship is right for you.

Administrative Professionals Week: 24-30 – This is the week to go above and beyond with your appreciation for your amazing, hard-working business employee or team!

See Employee Appreciation Ideas Here: Employee Appreciation Gift Ideas Pinterest Board

Are you looking for Dental Marketing and Practice Growth Tips & Ideas for April? Check these out: April 2022 Dental Marketing Ideas / Oral Cancer Awareness Month Ideas / Baseball Season Tips & Ideas

Create Healthy Hygiene Schedules

Hygiene Continuing Care Reminders – Reach out to your unscheduled hygiene patients. Do you know how many of your active patients are also active in hygiene? How many have a scheduled appointment and how many are unscheduled? Here is an opportunity to make a special effort to reach out to your unscheduled hygiene patients…

Cleaning For a Reason Week: 18th -24th – Turn this into an “it’s time (past-time) for your spring dental health cleaning, examination, and oral cancer screening appointment” reminder.

Keep in mind, the best way to keep your patients active is to be sure to reappoint them for their next hygiene visit when they are there at the office. Also, help more of your patients say yes to your treatment recommendations and have them reserve their appointment at the time of treatment presentation.

I hope you enjoyed the ideas that I’ve shared here.

It always brightens my day to hear from you! If you appreciated these complimentary ideas I would love for you to please take a minute to leave me a review/recommendation here on GOOGLE and/or FACEBOOK. Thank you!!

Yours for Greater Success,
~Betty

March 16, 2021 by bettyhayden

Dental Practice Management Tips and Ideas April 2021

Hello Friends,

As we prepare to welcome the start of your second quarter for the year it is my goal to help you exceed your current and potential patients’ expectations, exceed your team’s expectations, gain more new patients, engage with the community, and strengthen your office systems during the month of April.

Remember that it is just as important, if not most important to consistently exceed your employees’ expectations. We all need a work environment and culture that refreshes us instead of being a drag and a drain on us.

Spring Dental Practice Management Tips & Ideas for April 2021

Spring Clean your Online Presence – Friends, please take some time now to examine your website, social media pages, and Google listing. Make sure that your office information is up-to-date, current content and photos. Check the bios, office hours, services, special offers, page links, etc. If you haven’t brought your Google business listing up to date or have yet to claim it – please do so.

Hygiene Continuing Care Reminders – Reach out to your unscheduled hygiene patients.

April 18^th -24^th is Cleaning for A Reason Week. Turn this into a “it’s time(past-time) for your spring dental health cleaning, examination, and oral cancer screening appointment” reminder.

Friends, do you know how many of your active patients have a future appointment and how many do not? Do you know how many new patients you are welcoming into the practice AND how many patients you’re losing each month? To help you get that data quickly, like within minutes – if your PMS is either Dentrix, Eaglesoft, or Open Dental you can request a complimentary, no-obligation practice data snapshot here: Game-Changing Awareness from Dental Intelligence – Within minutes we’ll identify your practice’s strengths and uncover hidden opportunities. I am happy to assist you with this at no charge and with absolutely no obligation to do anything further with me.

“A team that works, learns, and PLAYS together stays together.”

National Fun at Work Day: 1^st – Have a silly theme for this day. (For example, Crazy hair, luau, silly socks, decades day, etc. Take and Share pictures on Facebook and Instagram)

National Dental Hygienists Week: 4^th – 10^th (note: this is for my Canadian friends)

Administrative Professionals Day: 21st – Celebrate your hard-working front office team!

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See Employee Appreciation & Gift Ideas Here: Employee Appreciation Gift Ideas Pinterest Board

Doctors, if you’re struggling to reach your practice goals – feel free to contact me for a complimentary, no-obligation 30-minute telephone consultation at bhaydenconsulting@gmail.com to see if a coaching relationship is right for you.

Looking for Marketing Tips and Ideas for April 2021? I got you covered! Please visit here: Spring Dental Marketing Tips and Ideas April 2021

Also, April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month ~ An excellent opportunity for you to raise oral cancer awareness and the need for early detection to save lives. Visit here for some tips and ideas: Oral Cancer Awareness Tips & Ideas

It always brightens my day to hear from you! If you appreciated these complimentary ideas I would love for you to please take a minute to leave me a review/recommendation here on GOOGLE and/or FACEBOOK. Thank you!!

Don’t miss out on any of the ideas that I share each month. Are you receiving my complimentary Practice Management and Marketing Ideas in your email each month? If not, please start following us today. If you prefer, send me your email address (to bhaydenconsulting@gmail.com) and I will send you an invitation to follow my blog.

Yours for Greater Success,
~Betty

P.S. Please stop by and say hello to me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest

April 6, 2020 by bettyhayden

Revised Dental Office Tips and Ideas for April During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Hello, Friends ~

Well, things certainly have changed since I first wrote this article for April! I hope you all are staying safe and healthy.

While we are quite limited with regards to caring for our patients’ dental needs during this time; there is still so much we can do to stay in touch with our patients, build relationships within the community, improve communication as a team, and to fine-tune office systems and protocols.

Here are some revised practice management, leadership, and marketing tips and ideas to help you grow your dental practice, exceed your current and potential patient’s expectations, and to have more fun as a team during the month of April! (I am certain that less-stress and more fun at the office is something that we all want…now, more than ever!)

Leadership Tips and Ideas:

“A team that plays and learns together stays together.”

Yes, even during this challenging time there are many opportunities to learn and play together from our own homes.

Team Meetings – Conduct weekly team meetings via video conferencing with your team.

Continuing Education and Training – Use your time away from the office to learn a new skill, develop new and improved office protocols and systems, create your marketing calendar for the year, etc.

National Dental Hygienists Week: 4^th – 10^th (note: this is for my Canadian friends. however, I see many offices in the States celebrating as well.)

Celebrate your hard-working front office team:

Administrative Professionals Week: 20-24^th /Admin Professionals Day: 22^nd

See Employee Appreciation Ideas Here: Employee Appreciation Gift Ideas Pinterest Board

Practice Management Ideas:

April 18^th -24^th is Cleaning For A Reason Week. Originally, I shared this idea to use as a hygiene continuing care reminder opportunity. This is a great time to share preventive dental health tips with your patients and potential patients on your social media platforms.

Because so many people are staying indoors you can even share spring cleaning tips for their homes.

Oh, this also may be the perfect time for you to spring clean the office! See: Is Your Dental Office Past-due For A Cleaning?

Seriously, if it is safe to do please use this time to clean your office. There is no reason to start back to work with a dirty or unorganized office.

Educational Opportunities:

Oral Cancer Awareness Month ~ An excellent opportunity for you to raise oral cancer awareness and the need for early detection in order to save lives.

Stress Awareness Month ~ Share with your patients in-office and via your social media platforms how stress can negatively impact their dental health. Provide tips for reducing and dealing with stress. How, when I wrote that a few months ago we had no idea just how stressful things in this world would be right now.

Marketing Tips and Ideas:

April is National Garden Month (I think we can still use this idea just in a revised way)

Focus: Spring into a Healthy & Beautiful Smile – Share dental health tips, and even some great after pictures of smile makeovers on your social media platforms.

Fun Give Away: Flower Seed Packets w/a label and business card attached. Obviously, you won’t be giving these away in person but why not mail a thank you for your referrals card and include a flower seed packet? Might brighten someone’s day.

The labels you attach to the flower seed packets can say:

“Your referrals help grow our practice, Thank you! “

“Our Office Blooms Because of you! “

“Please enjoy these flowers growing as much as we enjoy your referrals growing our practice.”

Social Media Platforms

Friends, please take some time now to examine your social media pages. Make sure that your office information, content and photos are current across all platforms. If you haven’t brought your Google business listing up to date or have yet to claim it – please do so. These are things that can be accomplished from the safety and comfort of your home.

Social Media Post Ideas to Improve Engagement during the month of April –

National Pet Month (Have your team share photos of their pets and ask your patients to share their pet photos)

National Siblings Day: 10^th

Banana Day: 15^th

National Garlic Day: 19th

National Jelly Bean Day: 22^nd(Share the Best and Worst Candies for your teeth)

National Superhero Day: 28^th

I hope these tips and ideas help you have a happy and productive month despite the chaos around us. Keeping you all close in my thoughts. If there is anything that I can do to help your offices during this challenging time please reach out to me.

If you appreciated these complimentary ideas I would love for you to please leave me a review/recommendation here on GOOGLE and/or FACEBOOK. Thank you!!

Don’t miss out on any of the ideas that I share each month! Are you receiving my complimentary Practice Management and Marketing Ideas in your email each month? If not, please start following us today. If you prefer, send me your email address (to bhaydenconsulting@gmail.com) and I will send you an invitation to follow my blog.

Yours for Greater Success,

~Betty – Dental Coach

March 12, 2020 by bettyhayden

Dentist Office Leadership, Practice Management, and Marketing Tips and Ideas for April 2020

Hello, Friends ~

How was your first quarter? I hope you reached (or exceeded) your office production, collection, and NP goals.

Now it’s time to welcome Spring and your second quarter. Be sure to review your plans to make this second quarter your best one yet! Ensure that everyone on the team is on the same page.

Here are some practice management, leadership, and marketing tips and ideas to help you grow your dental practice, exceed your current and potential patient’s expectations, and to have more fun as a team during the month of April! (I am certain that less-stress and more fun at the office is something that we all want.)

Leadership Tips and Ideas:

“A team that plays and learns together stays together.”

National Fun at Work Day: 1^st – Have a silly theme for this day. (For example, Crazy hair, silly socks, decades day, etc. POST pictures on Facebook and Instagram)

National Dental Hygienists Week: 4^th – 10^th (note: this is for my Canadian friends)

Celebrate your hard-working front office team:

Administrative Professionals Week: 20-24^th /Admin Professionals Day: 22^nd

See Employee Appreciation Ideas Here: Employee Appreciation Gift Ideas Pinterest Board

Practice Management Ideas:

Hygiene Continuing Care Reminders – Reach out your past-due hygiene patients.

April 18^th -24^th is Cleaning For A Reason Week. Turn this into a “time(past-time) for your spring dental health cleaning, examination, and oral cancer screening appointment” reminder.

Oh, this also may be the perfect time for you to spring clean the office! See: Is Your Dental Office Past-due For A Cleaning?

Educational Opportunities:

Oral Cancer Awareness Month ~ An excellent opportunity for you to raise oral cancer awareness and the need for early detection in order to save lives. See Dental Office Tips and Ideas for Oral Cancer Awareness Month April 2020

Marketing Tips and Ideas:

April is National Garden Month

Here are some ideas for you: (I have shared this one before, but it is so effective that I want to share it again.)

Theme: Spring Flowers

Focus: Spring into a Healthy & Beautiful Smile

Fun Give Away: Flower Seed Packets w/a label and business card attached.

Flower seed packets can be purchased at most Dollar Stores for around .20 a packet. Great deal!

The labels you attach to the flower seed packets can say:

“Your referrals help grow our practice, Thank you! “

“Our Office Blooms Because of you! “

“Please enjoy these flowers growing as much as we enjoy your referrals growing our practice.”

Your patients will love these little flower seed packets give-aways! Make certain the office name & info is on the packet.

For awesome ideas for flower seed packaging/presentation check out my Pinterest board HERE.

Social Media Post Ideas to Improve Engagement during the month of April –

Vitamin C Day: 4^th

National Siblings Day: 10^th

Banana Day: 15^th

National Jelly Bean Day: 22^nd

National Superhero Day: 28^th

Wishing you all a productive, stress-free, and very happy April! Remember, that I love hearing all about your plans and ideas to have a great month so please share them with me.

If you appreciated these complimentary ideas I would love for you to please leave me a review/recommendation here on GOOGLE and/or FACEBOOK. Thank you!!

Yours for Greater Success,
~Betty

P.S. Please stop by and say hello to me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest