Step up Your Game: Leadership Skills for Practice Managers

About This Course

This dental practice leadership course covers various topics including leadership skills, emotional intelligence, effective communication, team building, conflict management, and leadership skills review and implementation.

Why Take This Course?

The course addresses a common problem or challenge faced by UK dental professionals, which is the lack of leadership skills. Many dental professionals are trained to be skilled in clinical procedures but may not have the necessary skills to manage a practice or lead a team. This course provides a comprehensive guide to leadership in dental practice and covers various aspects of leadership, including emotional intelligence and effective communication. It also offers practical advice on building and leading teams, managing stress and burnout, and applying leadership skills for practice efficiency and transformational change.

This course on leadership in dental practice covers a wide range of topics such as defining leadership, different leadership styles, emotional intelligence for effective leadership, communication techniques for leaders, building and leading teams, and leadership skills implementation. It is beneficial for dental professionals who want to enhance their leadership skills, manage stress and burnout, and apply leadership skills for transformational change in their practice.

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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 mindfulness, its origins, and its relevance in a professional setting.	#REF!
2: Upon completion, learners will have the capacity to elucidate the neuroscience behind mindfulness, including its impact on neuroplasticity and stress hormones.
3: Participants will demonstrate their ability to recognize the benefits of mindfulness practice in the healthcare sector, specifically in fostering personal well-being, improving patient care, and bolstering self-awareness.
4: By the final session, learners will have mastered the application of mindfulness in dentistry, enabling them to enhance focus during procedures, manage job-related stress, and improve communication with patients.
5: At the course’s conclusion, attendees will have developed the competency to execute a basic mindfulness practice, and understand how to incorporate it into their daily routine for holistic personal and professional development.

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 covers leadership in dental practice, including defining leadership, the importance of leadership skills, different leadership styles, building leadership character, and identifying your leadership style. It also covers emotional intelligence for effective leadership, developing emotional intelligence skills, utilizing emotional intelligence in dental practice management, and a case study on emotional intelligence. Effective communication in leadership is discussed, including the theory of communication, the impact of effective communication on leadership, communication techniques for leaders, overcoming communication challenges in dental practice, and role-playing communication scenarios. Building and leading teams is also covered, including the significance of teamwork in dental practice, the role of a leader in building teams, fostering positive team dynamics, dealing with conflict in teams, and thought experiments on conflict management scenarios. Finally, the course covers leadership skills review and implementation, including leadership skills for practice efficiency, managing stress and burnout, constructing a career development plan, applying leadership skills for transformational change in practice, and a course review of key leadership skills and techniques.

Course Outline

Section 1

Section 1 of the course covers the basics of leadership in dental practice, including defining leadership and its importance, exploring different leadership styles, and building leadership character. It also delves into the concept of emotional intelligence and its role in effective leadership, along with communication techniques for leaders and team building strategies. The section concludes with a review of key leadership skills and techniques.

Section 2

The second section of this course covers key topics such as defining leadership in dental practice, understanding emotional intelligence and its role in effective leadership, effective communication techniques for leaders, building and leading teams, and implementing leadership skills for practice efficiency and transformational change.

Section 3

Section 3 of this course covers leadership, emotional intelligence, effective communication, building and leading teams, and leadership skills review and implementation. It discusses the importance of leadership skills, different leadership styles, and building leadership character. The section also includes topics such as defining emotional intelligence, developing emotional intelligence skills, and utilizing emotional intelligence in dental practice management. Effective communication techniques for leaders, team building, and conflict management are also covered. The section concludes with a review of key leadership skills and techniques.

Section 4

Section 4 of this course focuses on building and leading teams, which includes understanding the significance of teamwork in dental practice, the role of a leader in building teams, fostering positive team dynamics, dealing with conflict in teams, and practicing conflict management scenarios.

Section 5

Section 5 of the course covers the review and implementation of leadership skills. It includes topics such as leadership skills for practice efficiency, managing stress and burnout, constructing a career development plan, applying leadership skills for transformational change in practice, and a course review that recaps key leadership skills and techniques.

Course Reviews

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This course was incredibly useful for me as a dental professional. The section on emotional intelligence was particularly interesting and gave me a new perspective on managing my team.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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The leadership skills review and implementation section was excellent, providing me with practical tools to improve my practice efficiency.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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I found the section on communication techniques for leaders to be incredibly helpful in overcoming communication challenges with my team. Overall, this course was a valuable resource for any dental professional looking to improve their leadership skills.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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