549: Why Investing in Your Team Is So Important - Jenni Poulos - a podcast by ACT Dental

Why Investing in Your Team Is So Important

Episode #549 with Jenni Poulos

Your team is your most important asset. If you want a better practice, investing in your team members is one of the best things you can ever do. To share how you can commit to their growth, Kirk Behrendt brings back Jenni Poulos, one of ACT’s amazing lead coaches, with advice for training, educating, and growing the people around you. When you take care of your team, they will take care of you! To learn how to build a better team for a better practice and a better life, listen to Episode 549 of The Best Practices Show!

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Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Rocky Mountain Dental Convention: https://rmdconline.com

Atomic Habits by James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits

Main Takeaways:

Let go. Learn to delegate and elevate. 

Commit to growing the people on your team. 

Invest in your team’s education the same way as your own. 

A two-hour team meeting, done right, is a worthwhile investment. 

Your team members are the people who will bring your vision to life. 

Quotes:

“We oftentimes think team members should come trained, they should come educated, and the time that they spend in the practice should be enough. Dentists are quick to invest in themselves on tons of education. Clinical education, they will fly all over, spend top dollar for top education. They see it as an investment. But they don't, for some reason, take that leap to, ‘I need to invest in my team in the same way,’ because they need to stay in their circle, and they need to delegate and elevate their team members so they can be ballers everywhere else in the practice. And the way to do that is to invest in education.” (2:49—3:34) -Jenni

“As leaders, what we need to get really good at is letting go of the things that a) are not our highest and best, the things that we shouldn’t and don't have to be spending our time doing. We want to delegate those items to other team members that are going to be better at them so we can stay doing the things that are best for us. We can put them executing and killing it at the things that they want to do that they're best at. And by doing that, we continually elevate the people around us. We trust them. We have to let go of the vine, let them take the reins, delegate where we can, and we continually grow the people around us....

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