520: Shannon Pace-Brinker - at ADA SmileCon - a podcast by ACT Dental
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Shannon Pace-Brinker - at ADA SmileCon
Episode #520 with Shannon Pace-Brinker
Your dental assistants do more than you think. They are capable, worthy, and keep your practice running. If you want them to stay, it’s time you empower them! One of the best ways is by investing in their education. Today, Kirk Behrendt brings back Shannon Pace-Brinker, founder of the Academy of Chairside Assisting, to talk about valuing your assistants, elevating them and their skill sets, and helping them grow with her upcoming course. Support your valuable dental assistants! To learn how, listen to Episode 520 of The Best Practices Show!
Episode Resources:
- Shannon’s email: shannon@chairsideassisting.com
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- Shannon’s social media: @chairsideassisting
- Academy of Chairside Assisting: https://chairsideassisting.com
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Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Shannon's ACT Dental Dental Assistant's Course
Dental Hygiene Nation: https://www.dentalhygienenation.com
Teeth Obsessed Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TeethObsessed
Teeth Obsessed: https://teethobsessed.com
Main Takeaways:
Invest in your dental assistants. They are worthy.
Of 337,000 dental assistants, less than 28,000 are certified.
Elevate the certification so your assistants invest in themselves.
Give assistants the chance to see what they’re capable of achieving.
You and your assistants are a team. Help them grow so they can help you.
Quotes:
“I do love dental assistants. My heart has always been for them. I feel like they really work so hard, and they're so talented. Everybody has their own thing. And what they do in the practice really well, I think sometimes we don't know what that is, and we’ve got to find it. I also feel like dental assistants feel like they're unworthy. And it’s giving them the feeling that, ‘Listen, you are someone. You are great,’ no matter how you may feel, that someone thinks you are the lowest on the totem pole, or maybe you're not worthy of the status of some of the other people in the practice. We are worthy.” (2:16—2:54)
“It’s what you do with yourself, as far as the education. People say, ‘Well, I...
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