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CE0953: The 13 Components of a Thriving Dental Practice

Kirk Behrendt, Speaker & Coach


DATE:
Friday, February 19, 2010

LOCATION:
Washington State History Museum
Mount Tahoma Auditorium
1911 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, Washington 98402
(253) 272-3500
(888) 238-4373

TARGET AUDIENCE:
This course is designed for dentists and their spouses, hygienists, dental assistants and office staff.

REGISTER:
Download Course Application Form

or
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TIMES:
Registration and Continental Breakfast: 8:00am - 8:30am
Lecture: 8:30am - 4:30pm

TUITION:

Before February 17
$260/Dentist
$165/Staff
$234/Current Dental Alumni Member

After February 17
$270/Dentist
$175/Staff
$244/Current Dental Alumni Member

CREDITS:
7 hours

* This course is eligible for a 10% tuition discount if you are a current member of the UW Dental Alumni Association.


Course Description:

The future of comprehensive dentistry will be most available to those who position their teams as experts by creating a specific brand in their marketplace. Bring your entire team to this lecture. We will fire them up on this valuable day. This one day high-energy program is designed to show you how to create the correct, low-cost, big return, service fixing, high-impact marketing efforts that separate the THRIVING PRACTICES from the STARVING PRACTICES.

  • For Doctors, Spouses and Team Members
  • How to establish "World Class Customer Service" and why "Being Good" won't cut it anymore
  • How to maintain profitability levels high enough to sustain any ebbs and flows
  • The 5 team keys to creating practice momentum
  • How to eliminate all roadblocks that patients have in affording treatment
  • How to get patients to "pay in full" and "pay up front" for treatment
  • Powerful photography techniques & questions that get patients to "want" dentistry
  • How to create the "cancellation resistant" practice
  • The 8 Ways to dramatically grow production without working more hours
  • How to create more financial and time margin in your hectic life
  • The 5 components to building the "RIGHT Team" and not just any team
  • The 3 most important questions you have to answer about your life and your practice
  • Your children only get one childhood, how to make it "memorable"

Instructor:

KIRK BEHRENDT is a practice performance coach, international speaker and author. Kirk has spent his entire professional life studying the elite practices in dentistry and the leadership that guides them. As the founder of ACT, his vision is driven by the commitment to provide highly personalized care to the dental profession. By creating a small and talented team of experts, Kirk and his team continue to positively impact the practice of dentistry one practice at a time. The Pankey Institute and Dr. Peter Dawson's treatment philosophies influenced Kirk early in his career. Since then, his mission has been to provide the most ethical and value driven service known to the dental practice development profession. His personal mission is "to use up every ounce of my potential." Kirk lectures all over the United States to help individuals take control of their own lives. Kirk has competed internationally in 4 Ironman Triathlons and 9 Half-Ironman triathlons. He currently trains with some of the most elite pro and age-group triathletes competing in the world today. His feeling is that there is no greater parallel to optimal business performance than optimal athletic performance. He loves golf, basketball, stand-up comedy, and most of all, spending time with his wife, Sarah, and children Kinzie, Lily, Zoe and Bo.

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University of Washington designates this activity for 7 continuing education credits.