Enhancing Leadership Capabilities: Using Self-Reflection as a Practice Manager

About This Course

This dental practice management course explores the importance of self-reflection for professional development, leadership styles, and traits. Learn to integrate reflection into everyday practices and unlock your potential as a leader.

Why Take This Course?

This course addresses a common challenge faced by dental professionals which is the lack of self-reflection in their practice. Self-reflection is a crucial tool for professional development and leadership growth, but it can be difficult to know where to start or how to incorporate it into everyday practices. By providing a comprehensive understanding of self-reflection and its connection to leadership, this course aims to unlock the leadership potential of dental professionals and build a culture of reflection in dental practice.

Enroll in the self-reflection course for dental practice management to develop your leadership skills and improve your professional development through understanding the importance of self-reflection in dental practice. The course covers identifying areas for self-reflection, connecting self-reflection with leadership, and integrating self-reflection into everyday leadership practices. Unlock your leadership capabilities through this valuable course.

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How This Course Supports GDC Enhanced Dental CPD

“Dental professionals have a duty to keep their knowledge and skills up to date. A primary qualification is only the first step in their education and development which should last throughout their professional life” General Dental Council

Learning Objectives	Anticipated Outcomes
1: By the end of this course, learners will be able to understand the concept of self-reflection and its importance in personal and professional growth in dentistry.	#REF!
2: Upon completion, learners will have the capacity to apply self-reflection methods in their everyday dental practice to ensure continuous learning and professional development.
3: Participants will demonstrate their ability to comprehend the correlation between self-reflection and technical competency and how it enhances problem-solving capabilities and decision-making processes.
4: By the final session, learners will have mastered various strategies for habitual self-reflection, such as journaling, feedback sessions, peer reviews, and mentorship programs.
5: At the course’s conclusion, attendees will have developed the competency to analyze a recent professional challenge through self-reflection, bringing vital insights to their experiences to incorporate these learnings into future dental practice.

Regulatory Standards

GDC	CQC
✅ A – Effective Communication ✅ B – Effective Management ✅ C – Maintenance in Field of Practice ✅ D – Maintenance in Patient Confidence	✅ Caring ✅ Effective ✅ Leadership ✅ Responsive ✅ Safe

🕐 90 minutes of Enhanced Dental CPD

Course Description

The course focuses on understanding self-reflection and its importance in dental practice management, including identifying areas for self-reflection and using it for professional development. It also covers the connection between leadership and self-reflection, how self-reflection influences leadership styles, and developing leadership traits through self-reflection. Additionally, the course discusses integrating self-reflection into everyday leadership practices, challenges in maintaining a regular self-reflection practice, and fostering a culture of reflection in dental practice. The ultimate goal is to unlock leadership capabilities through self-reflection.

Course Outline

Section 1

The course content of Section 1 focuses on the importance of self-reflection in dental practice management, how self-reflection influences leadership styles, developing leadership traits through self-reflection, integrating self-reflection into everyday leadership practices, and leveraging self-reflection for ongoing leadership development.

Section 2

Section 2 of the course focuses on the importance of self-reflection in dental practice management, exploring how self-reflection can influence leadership styles and decision-making as a leader. It delves into developing leadership traits, such as empathy, confidence, communication proficiency, resilience, and adaptability, through reflective practices. The section also covers integrating self-reflection into everyday leadership practices, such as establishing a routine for regular self-reflection, employing reflective journaling, using feedback as a resource, and implementing group reflection activities. Finally, it highlights the journey ahead, emphasizing the importance of continuous reflection and growth to unlock leadership capabilities.

Section 3

Section 3 of the course covers the importance of self-reflection in dental practice management, the connection between leadership and self-reflection, developing leadership traits through self-reflection, integrating self-reflection into everyday leadership practices, and leveraging self-reflection for ongoing leadership development.

Section 4

Section 4 of the course covers integrating self-reflection into everyday leadership practices. It includes establishing a routine for regular self-reflection, using reflective journaling, employing feedback as a resource, implementing group reflection activities, and a case study on a reflective leader in dental practice. The section emphasizes the importance of ongoing self-reflection for leadership development, overcoming challenges in maintaining a regular practice, fostering a culture of reflection, and charting a career path through reflection.

Section 5

The course content of section 5 focuses on integrating self-reflection into everyday leadership practices and developing continuous growth through reflection. It covers topics such as establishing a routine for regular self-reflection, using feedback as a resource, and fostering a culture of reflection in dental practice. It also emphasizes the importance of leveraging self-reflection for ongoing leadership development and envisioning the future leader in oneself through reflection.

Course Reviews

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Excellent course that delves deep into the importance of self-reflection in dental practice. I particularly appreciated the section on integrating self-reflection into daily leadership practices. Highly recommend!

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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Informative and practical course that provided valuable insights into leadership development through self-reflection. I found the discussion on identifying areas for self-reflection and using it for professional growth to be especially helpful.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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The course exceeded my expectations with its comprehensive coverage of self-reflection in dental practice management. The section on fostering a culture of reflection was eye-opening and gave me practical ideas to implement in my practice.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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