DENTAL ASSISTANTS INCLUDED IN THIS MEETING!
With more than 20 years in the dental publishing industry, Kevin Henry is the former group editorial director for Dental Products Report, managing editor for Dental Economics, and editor-in-chief for DrBicuspid.com. He now serves as the co-founder for IgniteDA, a community designed to empower, enlighten and educate dental assistants, and as director of marketing for Fortune Management. He has spoken to dental assistants throughout the world, reminding them of the important role they play every day in their practice. He is also certified as a DiSC trainer, helping dental practices learn how to understand each other better through personality assessments and training.
Dental assistants have the opportunity every day to provide leadership, whether that’s through their relationship with the patients, by overseeing infection control protocols, ensuring the practice’s ordering and storage process is efficient, or many other possibilities. So what keeps dental assistants from becoming the leaders they can and should be? In this fast-moving course we will look at empowering the assistant, necessary communication skills, the stigma of being just an assistant, learning how to adapt to other team members, the doctor and patients, and more.
Upon completion of this session, attendees should be able to:
Explore how to have a more productive and fulfilling career as a dental assistant
Recognize existing opportunities for leadership and ways to expand those opportunities