The Business of Dentistry Podcast

Having left 2020 behind, many are now struggling with the tightened restrictions and the January lockdown, and the effect on their personal lives.

Johanna Hooper shares her insights on how this can affect the team and provides some advice on how practice leaders can help manage the resulting stress that may impact the working environment.

What you’ll hear:

• How can practice leaders support their team with the stress and help reduce the impact on performance in work

• How can leaders overcome the stress for themselves and for their remaining team

• How can leaders support team members to reduce stress related absence happening

• Coping mechanisms that can be introduced to help team members facing a higher workload.

Who should listen:

• All dental professionals.

Following on the from the previous episodes of The Five R’s of Recovery BoDcasts, Andy McLachlan talks to Aemelia Wright about ‘Resilience’ in the final of this five part series.

Offering an insight into the course available from The Exceptional Leadership Academy this episode focuses on what resilience in practice looks like and why this is important.

What you’ll hear:

• When we use the word resilience In the workplace what does that mean

• What are the key benefits of an individual creating more resilience

• How can we recognise low resilience and what can we do about it.

Who should listen:

• All dental professionals.

Nicola Samuels, Deputy Director of Outreach at Chester and District Samaritans shares details about the history of the charity, how you can identify ways of helping yourself and/or others and what services can be accessed.

What you’ll hear:

• Who are the Samaritans
• How does this work help
• How do I know if I'm a good listener
• What do Samaritans offer.

Who should listen:

• All dental professionals.

Samaritans is a registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional distress, struggling to cope, or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. You can access details of the services provided, donate or volunteer through their website https://www.samaritans.org/.

Nicki Rowland introduces the fourth in the five-part series of 'The 5 R's of Recovery'.

Offering an insight into the course available from The Exceptional Leadership Academy this episode focuses on 'resolve'.

What you’ll hear:

• Why it is so important to retrain your team right now
• How do you identify skill gaps
• How does training empower team members.

Who should listen:

• All dental professionals.

Full details of the CERTIFICATE IN BUSINESS RECOVERY (The 5 R's of Recovery) are available here.

Gary Nelson rounds the year off with his top seven observations of things that don’t change. 

2020 has been a year like no other in so many ways, but in many ways it’s been a reminder of some of the many lessons Gary has learnt in his 10 years in business

Many things have changed, but many things about life and business actually have not.

Who should listen:

• All dental professionals.

Andy Elwood shares his insights into some of the challenges men face regarding well-being and mental health.

This interesting BoDcast highlights some of the indicators we can look out for and how others can support.

What you’ll hear:

• What are the challenges for people who experience mental health issues

• Is it different for men, and if so, how
• Looking inward, what indicators do men need to look out for that suggest poor mental health

• How can someone in a particularly low state of mind help themselves to move past this point

• From the perspective of friends or family –are there behavioural or communication cues that we need to be aware of to help identify individuals who need help
• How can we keep ourselves mentally fit and increase our mental strength & resilience

Who should listen:

• All dental professionals.

Following on the from the first two R's of Recovery BoDcasts, Andy McLachlan talks to Aemelia Wright about 'Rebuild' in the third of this five part series.

Offering an insight into the course available from The Exceptional Leadership Academy this episode focuses on what rebuilding looks like in practice and why this is important.

What you’ll hear:

• What is it we are rebuilding and what’s important about it
• Why show vulnerability as a leader
• What can a practice implement to help rebuild its culture
• How can a manager or principal dentist get inside the headspace of their team.

Who should listen:

• All dental professionals.

Nicki Rowland introduces the first in the five-part series of 'The 5 R's of Recovery'.

Offering an insight into the course available from The Exceptional Leadership Academy this episode focuses on 'resolve'.

What you’ll hear:

• What is meant by 'resolving' and why is it so important
• What is ‘positive conflict’
• Why is taking a firm, fair and consistent management approach so crucial to leading a team particularly at this time.

Who should listen:

• All dental professionals.

Eleanor Young talks to Zac Collins, Territory Manager at Align Technology about the challenges and changes faced in 2020.

What you’ll hear today:

• What kind of push back are practices facing at the moment
• How have practices shown resilience, adapted and coped with the pressures
• What have successful practice been doing
• How has the journey changed and adapted to new ways of working.

Who should listen:

• All dental professionals.

Lauren Harrhy talks to Aemelia Wright about the support that Mental Dental provides to the dental industry.

Lauren shares details on how Mental Dental started and the challenges, concerns and positives that she has seen increase as a result of COVID-19. 

What you’ll hear:

• How was Mental Dental founded
• Has there been an increase in certain types of questions/concerns 
• Advice for struggling dentists
• What positives could have come from the lockdown and COVID-19.

Who should listen:

• All dental professionals.