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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 Diploma 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

  • Understand and lead change

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

  • a practice that can adapt and change

Fully accredited cohort based online programme over 12 months

Understand what leadership is really about. Learn how to develop into the leader you want to be and be able to affect change.

  • Over 70 short video lessons

  • 10 x 90 minute live webinars

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

  • Reflective exercises

  • Written assignments

  • Working through a change project

  • Final collated workbook

  • All accessible via a mobile app

  • An accredited qualification

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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 understand ing 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 understanding 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 it's purpose and have clear values. You will know how to develop and communicate these effectively. You will develop an understanding of finance so as to allocate resource effectively. You will learn how to delegate effectively. You will learn how 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.

  • Be able to make change happen

    You will have actually gone through and lead a real change as part of the Diploma. You will understand how to go about it and what needs to be done to successfully lead change.

Bonus material

  • Expert support

    18 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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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. What do you want from the Diploma in Dental Practice Leadership?

    1. What is leadership?

    2. Why is leadership important?

    3. What is the difference between leadership & management?

    4. Article - Understanding Leadership - Harvard Business Review

    5. Website Links for additional reading

    6. Recorded Video of Webinar 1 - Introduction & Leadership on 13/02/23

    7. Assignment 1 - What is leadership & why is it important?

    1. Workbook Download for Knowing Ourselves Section

    2. Introduction - Why is this knowing yourself so important for a leader?

    3. Personality Theory Overview

    4. What is your personality?

    5. Complete and Submit Everything DiSC Workplace Profile

    6. What is your leadership style?

    7. Leadership Styles - a Harvard Business Review Paper

    8. Complete and Submit your Leadership Makeup Worksheet

    9. Fitting Leadership 360 Process

    10. Raters for Fitting Leadership 360

    11. Recorded Video of Webinar 2 - Self on 13/03/23

    12. What are your values?

    13. Values Exercise

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

    15. Complete the Values Exercise

    16. What is your purpose?

    17. Create your own Purpose Statement

    18. What is your vision?

    19. Develop your Personal Vision of the future

    20. What are your goals?

    21. What Personal Goals do you have that align to your Vision?

    22. Look after yourself

    23. Create your own Wellness Compass

    24. Knowing ourselves summary

    25. Recorded Video of Webinar 3 - Self on 17/04/23

    26. Book your first 1:1 to explore everything about you!

    27. Create your own Development Plan

    1. Workbook Download for Creating Alignment Section

    2. Introduction

    3. The link

    4. Why is it important?

    5. Where is your practice heading?

    6. Identify or Create a vision for the Practice & a plan to communicate it effectively

    7. What does the practice stand for?

    8. Develop your 3 Core Values & Create a plan to ensure they are lived

    9. What is the purpose of the practice?

    10. Identify the Core Purpose of your Practice & Create a plan to communicate it effectively

    11. SWOT Analysis & Key Strategies

    12. Recorded Video of Webinar 4 - Creating Alignment 10/7/23

    13. Perform an analysis of the current situation of the Dental Practice & the trends at play

    14. Tactics & habits

    15. Who is responsible?

    16. Complete the tactics and habits spreadsheet

    17. Resource allocation

    18. Delegation

    19. Communicate!

    20. Creating alignment summary

    21. Book in your second 1:1!

    22. Recorded Video of Webinar 5 - Executing Alignment 14/8/23

    1. Workbook Download for Being Human Section

    2. Introduction

    3. Be emotionally literate

    4. Seek to understand

    5. Pace & lead

    6. Trust

    7. Creating a culture of feedback

    8. Honest conversations

    9. Coaching principles

    10. Coaching tools

    11. Being human summary

    12. Book in your third 1:1!

    13. Recording of Webinar 6 - Being Human Part 1. 18/9

    14. Recording of Webinar 7 - Being Human Part 2. 16/10

    1. Workbook Download for Performing Teams Section

    2. Introduction

    3. Define your teams

    4. Pay attention

    5. What makes a high performing team?

    6. Mastering conflict

    7. Team watch outs!

    8. Right people

    9. Performing teams summary

    10. Book in your fourth 1:1!

    11. Webinar 8 Recording - Team Dynamics 20/11/23

About this course

  • £3,500.00
  • 95 lessons
  • 18 hours of video content

FAQ

  • What is the format of the course?

    There are over 80 short videos of between 5-10 minutes in length making them easily digestible when you have the appropriate time. They are interspersed with exercises at the end of each video for you to reflect on and complete in your own time to aid your learning and affect any changes you may want to make. There is a significant project on leading change at the end.

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

    18 months

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

    18 months

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

    Yes there are 10 webinars and 8 60 minute 1:1 sessions with your coach

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