Business Adaptability: Managing a Successful Dental Practice in an Ever-Changing Climate

About This Course

This course teaches team managers the crucial skill of adaptability, including building resilient teams, leading through changes, conflict resolution, and practical exercises. Equip yourself with the skills to navigate your team effectively through real changes.

Why Take This Course?

This course addresses the common problem of managing a dental team through changes. Dental professionals often face challenges such as staff turnover, new technologies, and changes in regulations. The course focuses on building a resilient and adaptable team, leading through changes, and conflict resolution. By equipping managers with these skills, they can effectively navigate their team through real changes and keep them motivated and productive. Overall, the course aims to improve the quality of dental services provided to patients by ensuring that the team runs smoothly and efficiently despite any changes or challenges that may arise.

The course on adaptability in team management is beneficial for managers as it covers important topics such as understanding the role of adaptability, building a resilient team, leading through changes, conflict resolution, and practical exercises in leading a team through a hypothetical change. It equips managers with the necessary skills needed to navigate their team successfully through real changes and keep them motivated and productive.

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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 identify and understand the various risks present in dental practices.	1: Upon completion of the course, participants are expected to comprehend and manage various risks associated with dental practices effectively.
2: Upon completion, learners will have the capacity to prepare effectively for various possible emergencies in dental practices.	2: As a result of this course, the dental community will likely witness heightened risk awareness and more robust crisis response strategies.
3: Participants will demonstrate their ability to design and implement risk mitigation strategies in a dental practice setting.	3: The course should lead to an increase in learners’ proficiency in anticipating, mitigating, and responding appropriately to emergent situations in their respective practices.
4: By the final session, learners will have mastered the development of a comprehensive emergency response strategy for dental practices.	4: In the wider context, the course aims to contribute to creating safer, more resilient dental practices and encouraging a culture of proactiveness towards risk preparation and adaptation.
5: At the course’s conclusion, attendees will have developed the competency to apply risk adaptation principles in real-life scenarios in dental practice settings.	5: Following the course, the expectation is that attendees will improve their capability to apply these skills and attitudes optimally to ensure patient safety, clinical efficiency, and regulatory compliance in their practices.

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 the importance of adaptability in team management, including understanding the role of adaptability, building a resilient and adaptable team, leading through changes, conflict resolution, and a practical exercise in leading a team through a hypothetical change. The course aims to equip managers with the skills needed to navigate their team effectively through real changes and keep them motivated and productive.

Course Outline

Section 1

Section 1 of the course content focuses on the importance of adaptability in team management. It covers topics such as understanding the role of adaptability in team management, building a resilient and adaptable team, leading through changes, conflict resolution and adaptability, and a practical exercise in leading a team through a hypothetical change. The course emphasizes the need for flexibility, open-mindedness, and resilience in managing teams and provides strategies to cultivate these qualities in oneself and one’s team.

Section 2

Section 2 covers the importance of adaptability in team management and how it can lead to a positive and cohesive team environment. It also discusses building resilience in a team, leading through changes, conflict resolution, and includes an exercise on leading a team through a hypothetical change.

Section 3

Section 3 of this course focuses on adaptability in team management. It covers topics such as understanding the role of adaptability in team management, building a resilient and adaptable team, leading through changes, conflict resolution and adaptability, and an exercise on leading your team through a hypothetical change. The course emphasizes the importance of being flexible and responsive as a manager, creating a positive and cohesive team environment, and cultivating resilience in the team. It also provides practical strategies for leading through changes and conflict resolution.

Section 4

Section 4 focuses on the importance of effective communication in team management. It covers different communication methods and styles, as well as strategies for improving communication within the team. The section also discusses the role of feedback in enhancing team performance and the use of technology to facilitate communication. Effective communication is crucial for building a cohesive and productive team that can adapt to changes and overcome challenges.

Section 5

Section 5 of this course focuses on conflict resolution and adaptability in team management, including how to handle conflicts, lead through changes, and build a resilient and adaptable team. Additionally, the section includes an exercise in which participants are asked to develop a plan for leading their team through a hypothetical change, which helps develop skills for effectively navigating real changes and keeping teams motivated and productive.

Course Reviews

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This course truly helped me understand the importance of adaptability in team management. Specifically, the practical exercise in leading a team through a hypothetical change was eye-opening. – Dr. Sarah Lee

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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I highly recommend this course to any dental manager looking to improve their leadership skills. The section on conflict resolution was particularly useful in my practice. – Dr. John Smith

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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As a dental professional with years of experience, I found this course to be refreshing and informative. The emphasis on building a resilient and adaptable team was especially beneficial for my practice. – Dr. Jessica Chen

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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