Speaking Services: Topics

Julie Weir offers Full-Day and Half-Day lectures that can be specially designed to your audience's interests. Choose from the list below and customize your next lecture.

Be People Smart…How to Deal with the Four Different "Planets" that People Come From!
Take The Lead in Practice Management and Win Your Race!
Hire the Right Person the First Time!
Stop the Insanity! Scheduling for the Pediatric Dental Patient That Works
Leadership: Your Secret Tool for Success
Increase Profits with a Dental Practice Business Plan and Great Leadership Skills

Be People Smart…How to Deal with the Four Different "Planets" that People Come From!

People possess a mix of four different behavior traits; dominance (control), extroversion (people), pace (patience) and conformity (systems). One of these traits will be their strongest and dictate 50-70 percent of his or her behavior. Since the strengths and natural responses of each trait are unique and very different from the other traits, it can feel at times like the people you work with are from another "planet" if they do not share your same strongest trait. This is when communication breaks down and conflict occurs on dental team.

When team members understand these four behavior styles, they can communicate, work more effectively and make the best use of each others' strengths which will reduce conflict and increase productivity in the workplace. Causes of team conflict and how to productively solve it will be discussed. These insights will help doctors better manage their employees to keep morale high in the office.

Also, through understanding the communication style of each "planet", team members will learn how to present treatment information in the patient's "language", thus making it easier for the patient to understand, resulting in increased treatment acceptance.
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Take The Lead in Practice Management and Win Your Race!

Julie will discuss the best practice management tools for the dental office that will help staff members create excellence in teamwork, managing patients and systems in the office to decrease stress and increase profits.

Topics will cover:

• Leadership and Team Effectiveness
• YOU are the Most Important Product
• Define & Monitor Practice Goals
• Scheduling Pearls & Treatment Tracking
• Manage Collections
• Proactive Planning for a Successful Day

Throughout the talk, team members will create a specific Action Plan for implementing these steps to take their practice to its next level. This talk can also be customized specifically for the needs of a pediatric dental practice.
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Hire the Right Person the First Time!

Attracting and hiring the right person for the job is every doctor's challenge. When it is time to hire a new team member it feels like the luck of the draw to end up with a motivated person who has the right personality and the skills to be successful in the position you would like to fill. Julie will discuss a step by step hiring process that will eliminate many of the pitfalls that can happen and result in the wrong hire.

Julie will teach doctors how to:

• Create a Job Model identifying ideal traits needed for the position
• Write an effective employment ad to attract the most qualified applicants
• Interview applicants

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Stop the Insanity! Scheduling for the Pediatric Dental Patient That Works

Discover valuable tips on how to handle the challenges of scheduling for pediatric dental patients so your days are productive and stress free! Learn how to incorporate scheduling goals, new patients, emergencies and difficult patients successfully into your schedule and the right verbal skills to make it work. Throughout the talk, team members will create a specific Action Plan for implementing a better way of scheduling when they return to their office.
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Leadership: Your Secret Tool for Success

This talk will create an awareness of the importance and value of good leadership skills and how to apply them in the dental office. Two different offices can receive the same practice management tools. One will soar past their goals, while the other will struggle. What is the difference? It is the leadership skills of the doctor and office manager with staff and patients. You do not have to be born a leader to use these specific leadership tools effectively and successfully, you just have to know what they are.
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Increase Profits with a Dental Practice Business Plan and Great Leadership Skills

This talk will address specifics in four important areas of every successful practice that create the framework for a strong practice foundation and generate increased profits: business plan and goal numbers, practice systems and team effectiveness and doctor leadership.
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