Having a full team and a busy schedule is amazing, but if there’s constant friction and miscommunication, you’re going to struggle. You need a team that works well together, and that means they need to be aligned around a series of shared expectations. Without that alignment, culture becomes inconsistent
I’ve spoken with many dentists who feel like their teams don’t “get it,” even though they’ve shared their vision and expectations with their teams. If this is the case in your practice, you may feel like your team doesn’t care, but the truth is that they’re unclear, unaligned, or uninspired. That gap is costing you time,
There’s an unfortunate tendency for team meetings to turn into nothing more than a gripe session where you recycle the same grievances over and over again, wasting everyone’s time.
