Empowering Women in Dentistry: Strategies for Career Advancement

About This Course

This dental leadership course explores the benefits of diversity, strategies for enhancing inclusivity, and overcoming resistance to change. Learn how to drive positive change and foster an inclusive workplace culture.

Why Take This Course?

The course addresses the challenge of diversity in dental leadership, which is a common problem faced by UK dental professionals. By providing insights into the benefits of diversity in patient care, team performance, and employee engagement, the course helps dental professionals to understand the importance of diversity. Additionally, the course provides strategies to enhance diversity in leadership, including fair recruitment, mentoring, and fostering an inclusive workplace culture. Overall, the course helps dental professionals to become better leaders by addressing the issue of diversity, which is essential for success in today’s diverse workplace.

This course is beneficial because it covers the importance of diversity in dental leadership, including how it benefits patient care, employee engagement, and team performance. It also explores the role of leaders in championing diversity and provides strategies to enhance diversity in leadership. Additionally, the course addresses how to overcome resistance to diversity and summarizes the benefits and need for diversity, the role of leadership in driving change, and provides next steps for increasing diversity in leadership.

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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 impact of diverse leadership on team performance in dental practices.	#REF!
2: Upon completion, learners will have the capacity to identify and implement behaviors that promote inclusivity within a dental team.
3: Particpants will demonstrate their ability to develop and execute effective diversity-centered recruitment and retention strategies for dental practices.
4: By the final session, learners will have mastered techniques to overcome common challenges in implementing diversity and inclusion in a dental practice setting.
5: At the course’s conclusion, attendees will have developed the competency to devise and enact a comprehensive Diversity and Inclusion Strategy for their own 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 covers the importance of diversity in dental leadership, including how it benefits patient care, employee engagement, and team performance. It also explores the role of leaders in championing diversity, such as modeling inclusive behavior, ensuring fair opportunities for all, and facilitating diversity and inclusion training. Strategies to enhance diversity in leadership are discussed, including fair recruitment, mentoring, and fostering an inclusive workplace culture. The course also addresses how to overcome resistance to diversity, including handling misconceptions and biases, and holding team members accountable for diversity goals. Finally, the course summarizes the benefits and need for diversity, the role of leadership in driving change, and provides next steps for increasing diversity in leadership.

Course Outline

Section 1

Section 1 of the course covers the importance of diversity in leadership, how leaders can champion diversity, strategies for enhancing diversity in leadership, overcoming resistance to diversity, and a summary of the course content with next steps. It explores how diversity can benefit patient care, employee engagement, and team performance, and offers strategies for fair recruitment, fostering an inclusive workplace culture, and addressing challenges and biases.

Section 2

Section 2 of the course focuses on understanding the need for diversity in leadership, the role of leaders in championing diversity, adopting strategies to enhance diversity in leadership, overcoming resistance to diversity, and summary and next steps. Topics covered include the importance of diversity in dental leadership, modeling inclusive behavior, fair recruitment, fostering an inclusive workplace culture, addressing challenges in promoting diversity, and reviewing approaches to overcome resistance.

Section 3

Section 3 of this course focuses on the importance of diversity in leadership and how to adopt strategies to enhance it. Topics covered include the benefits of diversity in patient care and team performance, the role of leaders in championing diversity, fair recruitment and mentoring practices, fostering an inclusive workplace culture, and overcoming resistance to diversity. The section concludes by summarizing the need for diversity, the role of leadership in driving change, and reviewing strategies to increase diversity.

Section 4

Section 4 of the course content focuses on overcoming resistance to diversity. It addresses challenges in promoting diversity, handling misconceptions and biases, holding team members accountable for diversity goals, and strategies for easing the transition. The section also includes a thought experiment on approaching resistance to change and concludes with a summary and next steps for increasing diversity in leadership.

Section 5

This section explores the need for diversity in leadership, discussing the benefits of varied experiences and skills in patient care, and the impact of diversity on employee engagement and team performance. The role of leaders in championing diversity is also examined, including modelling inclusive behaviour, establishing expectations, and providing diversity and inclusion training. Strategies to enhance diversity in leadership are outlined, such as fair recruitment, mentoring, and fostering an inclusive workplace culture. Overcoming resistance to diversity is also discussed, including addressing challenges, handling misconceptions and biases, and holding team members accountable for diversity goals. A summary of key points is provided, along with reflections on strategies and approaches to increase diversity and drive change.

Course Reviews

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Great course! I appreciated how it specifically addressed the importance of diversity in dental leadership and provided concrete strategies for increasing inclusivity in the workplace.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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The course was very informative and provided valuable insights into the role of leaders in promoting diversity and fostering an inclusive workplace culture. I particularly enjoyed the discussion on how to overcome resistance to diversity.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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As a dental professional, I found this course to be incredibly relevant and helpful. The content was well-organized and provided practical tips for promoting diversity in leadership and improving patient care.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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