Business Speaking Topics
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Managing your Business & Finances
The Business Side of Dentistry
Fraud in Your Dental Practice
Benchmarking Your Dental Practice
Choosing the Right Retirement Plan
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Leadership & Motivation
Leadership Skills and Training
How to Motivate and Lead Your Team
Your Career Choices
Abundance vs. Scarcity Mindset: It’s A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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Communication & Relationships
How to Avoid Associate/Partner Pitfalls
Networking and Communication Skills
Having Difficult Conversations with Your Team Members
Dental Rep to True Business Consultant: The Transition from “Order Taker” to Trusted Advisor
Doug Fettig wrote a book!
Revolutionize Your Dental Practice: How to Live Abundantly, Lead with Curiosity, & Think Like a CEO
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In-Person Seminars
Dental practice owners wear many hats. My public speaking engagements cover a wide variety of topics to help you succeed in every facet of business management. Topics include equipment depreciation, identifying fraud, upleveling your team's skills, office culture, and more.
Online & Virtual Webinars
Some dental practices have several office locations or team members that work remotely. Webinars are also available for these groups and cover all the same in-depth topics as the in-person seminars. As a bonus, all webinar content can be recorded, distributed amongst your practice leaders, and used as a reference guide for future use.
MANAGING YOUR BUSINESS & FINANCES
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• Identify the critical building blocks of every successful practice.
• Provide critical but easy-to-understand business concepts essential to leading your practice.
• Tips to use tax & retirement plan incentives to increase practice cash flow and future growth potential.
• Leave you with the blueprint of a written plan to improve your practice and your life.
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• Understanding warning signs of fraud and why it is commonplace in dental practices.
• Simple steps to strengthen your control environment.
• How to make fraud conversations with your team comfortable.
• What to do if you uncover fraud in your practice.
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• Identifying the measurements that matter.
• Providing you with the common benchmarks in key financial and operational areas.
• Common reasons why dental practices fall short of benchmarks.
• Tools and steps that can help your practice achieve your benchmarking goals.
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• The current state of retirement readiness in dentistry (hint – it could be better!)
• An overview of various retirement plans and why yours should change during your practice lifetime.
• How to avoid the most common investment mistakes.
• Tools to help you determine your retirement readiness.
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• Understanding the Importance of Leadership Skills.
• Mastering the Two Most Important Leadership Qualities.
• Steps to Build the Trust of Your Team.
• Techniques to Ensure a Positive and Dynamic Culture.
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• Proven strategies to effectively communicate with and motivate your team.
• The three keys to giving a successful pep talk.
• How to deal with a bad apple on your team in a way that will make you a hero.
• The secret to building a dynamic team and maximizing team productivity.
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• Understand how to successfully begin your career while managing your debt load.
• Identify the various career choices: partnership, associate, corporate dentistry.
• Break out the pros/cons of each basis choice.
• Provide you with a checklist to help you ensure a successful start to your career.
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• Abundance vs Scarcity Defined
• Group Exercise – Which Mindset are You?
• The Power Inherent in Abundance Thinking
• How to Join “Team Abundance” - Grow Your Practice and Improve Your Life
LEADERSHIP & MOTIVATION
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• Steps to ensure a successful associate and partner “marriage”.
• Common pitfalls and oversights that will doom an associate or partnership– from both perspectives.
• Critical steps in preparing your practice for a sale.
• A checklist of Agreements and Terms that every sale should include.
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• Understand and incorporate networking into your career.
• We are all in business development – how to be comfortable and stand out.
• The key to communication – ADAPT your style to others.
• A guaranteed approach to help you enjoy and connect at networking function.
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• Common Reasons for Difficult Conversations.
• Preparing a Roadmap for your Difficult Conversation.
• Planning for Common Employee Reactions.
• Achieving the End Goal of the Conversation.
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• Understand how to explain critical business concepts in plain English to your dentists
• Highlight to your dentists the power of thinking like a CEO and embracing an “abundance mindset”
• Provide your dentists with simple yet critical leadership concepts
• Incorporate the SWOT tool (a strategic thinking exercise) in your conversations with all of your dentists
COMMUNICATION & RELATIONSHIPS
Previous Dental Speaking Opportunities
National AGD Convention
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Dentsply Sirona
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Henry Schein
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A-dec
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Marion Polk Dental Study Club
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Burkhart
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Ignite DDS
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Phoenix Dental Study Club
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Patterson Dental
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OHSU School of Dentistry
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Wenatchee Study Club
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California Oral Surgery Study Club
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Burkhart
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ODEA Study Club
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A-dec
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washington agd
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Patterson Dental
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University of Washington School of Dentistry
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The Hispanic Dental Association National Convention
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San Diego Study Club
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Sirona 3D Events
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Pacific NW Dental Convention
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San Fernando Valley Study Club
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Henry Schein
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Loveland Study Club, Denver Tech Study Club
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oregon agd
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Las Vegas Study Club
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3D Infusion Dental
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Hilo
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Neocis (webinars)
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Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC (University of Southern California)
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Rio Grande Valley Study Club
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HI Study Club
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National AGD Convention • Dentsply Sirona • Henry Schein • A-dec • Marion Polk Dental Study Club • Burkhart • Ignite DDS • Phoenix Dental Study Club • Patterson Dental • OHSU School of Dentistry • Wenatchee Study Club • California Oral Surgery Study Club • Burkhart • ODEA Study Club • A-dec • washington agd • Patterson Dental • University of Washington School of Dentistry • The Hispanic Dental Association National Convention • San Diego Study Club • Sirona 3D Events • Pacific NW Dental Convention • San Fernando Valley Study Club • Henry Schein • Loveland Study Club, Denver Tech Study Club • oregon agd • Las Vegas Study Club • 3D Infusion Dental • Hilo • Neocis (webinars) • Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC (University of Southern California) • Rio Grande Valley Study Club • HI Study Club •