Many private practices employ a 32 clinical work week. Seeing patients 8 hours per day for 4 days per week allows most dental teams that fifth day off. This opportunity for a third off day per week both adds to your team’s quality of life and helps reduce burnout in what can be a grueling profession. We here at ACT recommend a slight variation to this schedule. Let’s call it the 30-2 hour work week. In this model, you offer 30 clinical hours to your patients with 2 hours every week for you and your team to temporarily lock the doors and perform a 2-hour team meeting.

Dr. Barrett Straub

October 28, 2024

We’ve all been in the same position. Someone calls you for a favor, and you can’t help but say yes. Dentists say yes to lots of things—yes to free treatment, yes to long hours, yes to working at home. Do they actually want to do all this? NO! This doesn’t just happen at the office. Dentists say yes in their personal lives, too, whether it’s yes to dinner plans, weekend trips or volunteering. When all you say is yes, there’s no time left for yourself.

Kirk Behrendt

October 28, 2024

We want you to build more than a better practice. We want you to build a better life, too, and that starts by using the one percent strategy. The one percent strategy means you’re improving a little bit each day. When you go to bed, you should feel one percent better than the person you were yesterday.

Kirk Behrendt

October 21, 2024

The annual review is an aspect that many businesses use to give their team members feedback, often because it’s the way they’ve always done things. But like Kirk says, “That’s the way we’ve always done things” are the seven most dangerous words. Ultimately, the annual review doesn’t have a positive impact

Heather Crockett

October 19, 2024

A lot of dentists think the practice belongs to them (and it does, to some degree). However, it’s not just their practice. It belongs to the patients and everyone who works there! A successful practice is less about what YOU want and more about what THEY want.

Kirk Behrendt

October 14, 2024

When there’s a hole in the schedule, it generates so much stress for the practice. However, that empty chair is more than just an empty chair—it’s negative profit for your practice. You need to keep your schedule full, and to do so, you must focus on maximizing your capacity by improving your patient

Carlie Einarson

October 05, 2024

The Paradox of Success suggests that the very skills, beliefs, and behaviors that brought you to your current level of achievement won’t necessarily help you maintain or grow that success. In fact, sometimes past success can even stand in the way of future progress.

Dr. Barrett Straub

September 30, 2024

Dentistry isn’t a profession—it’s a sport. Think about it: how many hours a week do you spend standing, bending over and working with your hands? Those little movements add up, and over time, dentistry can take its toll on the body. If dentistry is a sport, that means you’re an athlete. Start treating yourself like one!

Kirk Behrendt

September 23, 2024

Have you ever asked yourself why your patients choose to come to you? They don’t accidentally come to you, so understanding what it is that makes you special in your patients’ eyes is the key to unlocking a brighter future for your practice. Like Kirk says, “You need to separate yourself from the sea of

Courtney Dalton

September 21, 2024

Have you seen Ted Lasso? We coach a dentist who happens to be a HUGE Ted Lasso fan! In the show, Ted makes a banner that simply says, “Believe.” This inspired the Summit Square Dental team to create their very own Believe Box—a place where people can shout out their colleagues for modeling the practice’s core values. The lead dentist collected all those messages and combined them into one big Believe Banner!

Kirk Behrendt

September 16, 2024