Leadership is vital for the success of any dental practice or team

Despite this many dentists and dental team leaders are not taught how to lead. Leadership can be learnt. Take the fully accredited Certificate in Dental Practice Leadership to learn how to....

  • Be the leader you want to be

  • Have effective difficult conversations

  • Connect effectively with your people

  • Understand and develop the right team dynamics

  • Make better decisions

  • Align everybody to a common purpose

  • Coach your team to success

What will this do for your dental practice? It will mean....

  • highly engaged, energised and motivated team members who are really making a difference in taking your practice where you want it to be

  • low levels of employee turnover enabling a consistently high level of service whilst also saving significant cost and disruption

  • a practice that is not reliant on the practice principal or any one person, leading to a level of resilience to the practice

Fully accredited cohort based online programme over 12 months

Understand what leadership is really about and learn how to develop into the leader you want to be

  • Over 70 short video lessons

  • 7 x 90 minute live webinars

  • 2 x 60 minute 1:1 coaching sessions with instructor

  • Reflective exercises

  • Written assignments

  • Final collated workbook

  • An accredited qualification

  • All accessible via a mobile app

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By the end of this course you will...

  • Be clear on the type of leader you want to be

    You will have a clear understanding of what leadership is, the impact of leadership on the team around you and the type of leader that you want to be. You will have a deep knowledge of who you are, giving you a level of confidence and authenticity.

  • Be able to align your people and resources in a common direction

    You will be able to create a vision of the future for your practice, understand its purpose and have clear values. You will know how to develop and communicate these to bring energy to your team. You will learn how to allocate resources effectively. You will develop your ability to delegate with impact. You will be able to focus your time and the time of your team on what is most important.

  • Be able to connect deeply with your people and hold difficult conversations

    You will understand how to connect deeply with your people at the same time as being able to hold difficult conversations with them in a constructive fashion. You will know how to create a culture of feedback and learning.

  • Be able to create a high performing team

    You will understand what the behaviours of a high performing team are and how to go about developing them.

  • Be able to make better decisions

    You will understand the best ways to make decisions and choices. You will understand the importance of reflection and review in order to move the practice forward.

Bonus material

  • Expert support

    12 months easy and quick access to a discussion board where you can post questions for guidance and support from the instructor and the community

  • Free copy of Lead Your Dental Practice

    Lead Your Dental Practice is the Amazon Best Selling Book by Jamie Morley. This will provide you with a book that can be a reference for some of the material covered in the course

  • Collated workbook

    Throughout the course there are templates and exercises which you submit. These are all collated together and sent back to you at the end in a collated workbook

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This is a unique course, providing a comprehensive knowledge to improve the leadership skills. Well recommended.

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Jamie Morley

Leadership Coach & Author

Author & Leadership Coach Jamie Morley

Jamie Morley is a leadership coach whose purpose in life is to facilitate the development of others so that they can fulfil their potential. He is the owner of Fitting Leadership, which he set up in 2018 and provides leadership coaching and training. He set up this business based on his experience of leading teams within business for over twenty years, with seventeen of those spent at Johnson & Johnson, and seven at Align Technology, where he was the General Manager for the UK and Ireland business during a period of significant growth. Jamie has a degree in business studies from Sheffield Hallam University and an MSc in coaching and behavioural change from Henley Business School, where he developed his ability to help others change and evolve.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome

    2. Introduction

    3. Support

    4. Dates for Certificate in Dental Practice Leadership Cohort 1

    5. Download the Mobile App!

    6. Learner Registration Details for your accreditation - these will be used on your certificates so please double check for accuracy

    7. Shared Google Doc for Parking Lot of things would like to discuss

    1. What is leadership?

    2. Why is leadership so important?

    3. What is the difference between leadership & management?

    4. High levels of leadership versus great leadership

    5. Article - Understanding Leadership - Harvard Business Review

    6. Website Links for additional reading

    7. Assignment - What is leadership & why is it important?

    8. Assignment Cover and Assessment Outcome Sheet - What is leadership & why is it important?

    9. Recording of Webinar 1

    1. Download Workbook for Knowing Ourselves Section

    2. Introduction - why is this important?

    3. Exercise - Why is knowing ourselves important for a leader?

    4. Personality Theory & Profiling

    5. What is your personality?

    6. Complete and Submit Everything DiSC Workplace Profile

    7. Exercise - Comment on your Personality Profile

    8. What is your leadership style?

    9. Leadership Styles - a Harvard Business Review Paper

    10. Leadership Makeup Exercise

    11. Fitting Leadership 360 Process

    12. Submit Raters for your Fitting Leadership 360 Feedback

    13. Exercise - Comment on your 360 Appraisal

    14. Values

    15. PDF of a range of values but feel free to chose your own!

    16. Values Exercise

    17. Exercise - Complete the Values Exercise

    18. What is your purpose?

    19. Exercise - What does understanding your core purpose give you as a leader?

    20. Exercise - Create your own purpose statement

    21. What is your vision?

    22. Exercise - Create your own personal vision of the future

    23. Exercise - Explain the difference between a goal and a vision

    24. What are your goals?

    25. Exercise - Write down a SMART goal that sits alongside your vision

    26. Look after yourself

    27. Exercise - Complete the Wellness Spider

    28. Create Your Own Personal Development Plan

    29. Exercise - Complete your Personal Development Plan

    30. Book in your initial 1:1 to explore everything about you and to clarify what you want from the course

    31. Submit your completed workbook for this whole section on Self

    32. Assignment Cover and Assessment Outcome Sheet - Self workbook

    33. Recording of Webinar 2

    1. Download Workbook for Creating Alignment Section

    2. Introduction

    3. The link

    4. Assignment - The impact of alignment

    5. Assignment Cover and Assessment Outcome Sheet - Impact of Alignment

    6. Why are values so important for your practice?

    7. What does the practice stand for?

    8. Exercise - What are the values of your practice?

    9. What is the purpose of the practice?

    10. Exercise - What is your purpose?

    11. Where is your practice heading?

    12. Exercise - What is your vision?

    13. SWOT Analysis Introduction

    14. SWOT Analysis - Internal

    15. SWOT Analysis - External

    16. Exercise - Complete the SWOT Analysis

    17. Key strategies

    18. Who is responsible?

    19. Exercise - Key strategies

    20. Tactics & habits

    21. Exercise - Tactics and habits

    22. Communicate, Allocate & Delegate

    23. Delegation

    24. How to delegate

    25. Delegate - key things to do

    26. Exercise - Job description

    27. Exercise - Delegation

    28. Submit a video of you delegating something to a team member

    29. Assignment Cover and Assessment Outcome Sheet - Delegation video

    30. Resource allocation

    31. Allocate time

    32. Exercise - Allocation of money and time

    33. Communicate!

    34. Exercise - Create a communication plan

    35. Creating alignment summary

    36. Recording of Webinar 3

    37. Submit your Alignment Workbook

    38. Assignment Cover and Assessment Outcome Sheet - Alignment workbook

    1. Download the workbook for the Being human section

    2. Introduction

    3. Some theories of motivation

    4. Be emotionally literate

    5. Seek to understand

    6. Pace & lead

    7. Assignment - The importance of connecting with your people

    8. Assignment Cover and Assessment Outcome Sheet - Importance of Connecting

    9. Honest conversations

    10. Receiving feedback

    11. Exercise - Receiving Feedback

    12. Giving feedback - principles

    13. Giving feedback - structure

    14. Exercise - Giving feedback

    15. Assignment - Creating a Culture of Feedback

    16. Assignment Cover and Assessment Outcome Sheet - Creating a culture of feedback

    17. Trust

    18. Vulnerability

    19. Assignment - Trust & Vulnerability

    20. Assignment Cover and Assessment Outcome Sheet - Trust & Vulnerability

    21. Exercise - Complete the trust bank

    22. Being human summary

    23. Recording of Webinar 4

    24. Submit your Being Human Workbook

    25. Assignment Cover and Assessment Outcome Sheet - Being Human Workbook

    1. Download the workbook for the Teams Section

    2. Introduction

    3. Define your teams

    4. Exercise - Define your teams

    5. Pay attention

    6. Psychological safety

    7. The Five Behaviours

    8. Conflict

    9. Conflict and you

    10. Exercise - Psychological safety evaluation and development

    11. Accountability

    12. Exercise - Accountability evaluation and development

    13. Transactional analysis

    14. Exercise - Transactional analysis observations and development

    15. Team watch outs!

    16. Exercise - Team watch outs

    17. Exercise - Share of voice

    18. One bad apple

    19. Right people

    20. Exercise - Right people

    21. Teams summary

    22. Recording of Webinar 5

    23. Submit your Team Dynamics workbook

    24. Assignment Cover and Assessment Outcome Sheet - Team Dynamics Workbook

About this course

  • £1,450.00
  • 192 lessons
  • 18 hours of video content

FAQ

  • How long do I have access to the content for?

    12 months

  • How long do I have access to the community for?

    12 months

  • Is there any group discussion sessions or 1:1 coaching?

    Yes, there are 7 x 90 minute live interactive webinars as part of the programme as well as 2 x 60 minute 1:1s with your coach at the beginning and end of the programme

  • When do I receive my accreditation?

    When you have met all the requirements in terms of the assessments

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