This week coming up is totally bat sh*t crazy (even by my standards which are often pretty crazy).
Tomorrow is in the shed first thing in the morning preparing for the business course which starts on Thursday. Making sure everything’s up to date clinically, email, Asana and then all the presentations are ready for Thursday and the thought exercises and the discussions and the chats and all of that.
Monday afternoon is patients generating much more clinical work and lots of people coming back for second consultations after having received their plans.
Tuesday is surgery and then more new patients on Tuesday afternoon.
Wednesday is a visit to some old friends who came on the business course years ago and then went on and made an extraordinary success of their practice and their lives and Hayley and I are going to meet them to see what we can learn from them now as the apprentice became the master and then beyond.
And that will set us up beautifully for the business course on Thursday except on Wednesday night we have Sara Symington coming to present an inspirational peer review from a woman in high-level performance sport and high-level performance direction to try to teach us what it’s like to be a high-level individual (and we’re recording a podcast).
And then it’s the business course and trying to distil all of that stuff and everything else into a group of practices that come to meet us to say, ‘we would like it to be better and we would like you to show us how to make it better’.
Over these past few months, I’ve been looking at everybody else’s business courses (the ITI, the coaches that live round and about and some other people who provide these courses).
The one thing that sets us apart is that the point of the course is that you write your own business plan.
You exit the course with a constructed 3-year plan for your business (your business, not my business or anybody else’s business) and you go off and execute your plan.
It’s bizarre that on Wednesday we go to somebody who did the business course 5 years ago who not only executed their 3-year plan, but they smashed it out of the park and went from a practice with 15 people in it to one with 75 people which is growing and growing into one of these extraordinary dental businesses.
And so, the plan is to bottle it up and to give it as a medicine to the guys who come on Thursday and Friday and Thursday night, we have a dinner for the business course guys (some of the best parts of the course) and then on Friday we finish the day and jump on a train and go to the clinical dentistry awards in London (ffs).
From a distance it looks like an exciting week, close up, well, if I get to the other side of it will be a f@ck*ng miracle (oh, I also need to get some training in there and be a husband and a dad).
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