Dental CE Course: From Agitated to Zen: Time Management Principles and Social Media for Dental Practices

This course tackles two compelling and important issues that are challenging today’s dental practices: Effective time- management and the use of social media marketing.
Morning Session: Time Management Principles for the Dental Office
Many of us are time-poor. We struggle to fit everything in, often staying late at work, suffering from stress created when our work-life balance is out of whack. Does it have to be that way? No!
When you use effective time-management strategies at work you become the Master of your responsibilities. You can get everything done and have time left over to play. Learn time-management principles from this course and feel calmer and more in control at the end of the day.
Objectives:
• Become more effective and more efficient
• Discover how to prioritize and plan to maximize productivity
• Assertively manage interruptions and requests
• Get organized and create a positive impression (how to “look the part”)
• Manage performance of your team
• Learn core skills like how to ask powerful questions and active listening
• Delegate effectively

Afternoon Session: Social Media for the Dental Practice

Are you a bit baffled by social media and how it relates to your dental practice? This session will quickly get you up-to-speed on how social media marketing can help dental practices achieve their branding and marketing communication goals quickly, efficiently and, best of all, inexpensively. Different social media platforms can place your practice right where your patients are, and help you learn more about them through informal research.

There is no doubt that social media is changing how consumers make buying decisions and how companies run their operations – and you can take part in this revolution.

Objectives:


• Define social media and learn what it does
• Examine the use of platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
• Understand how medical and dental practices can build a social media presence, and why it’s important
• Understand how social media marketing can expand your business
• Choose what social media platforms are right for your practice
• Learn how to participate in online communities and forums that have active, engaged participants