Leadership Skills for Dental Professionals : Begin Well to Finish Well

Leadership Skills for Dental Professionals Equips all members of the dental team with the key leadership skills for professional and personal life Leadership Skills for Dental Practitioners: Begin Well to Finish Well is an authoritative guide to better leadership in dentistry. Designed to prepare every member of the dental team for the leadership tasks and challenges they will face in general practice, this comprehensive resource helps the reader to develop skills not explicitly taught in traditional dental education. The book's content has arisen from the Senior Dental Leadership programme which is a public private partnership between the Global Child Dental Fund charity, King's College London, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Henry Schein and Colgate Palmolive. Throughout the book, practical advice is provided on fourteen capabilities for a balanced and credible leadership approach to application within a clinical context. Topics include: how to influence to have impact teamwork and collaboration credibility: how to gain it and lose it values for leadership practice and business ethics dealing with difficult people and managing conflict body language: fiction and facts Leadership Skills for Dental Practitioners: Begin Well to Finish Well is a much-needed guide for every member of the dental team.

Leadership Skills for Dental Professionals

Equips all members of the dental team with the key leadership skills for professional and personal life

Leadership Skills for Dental Practitioners: Begin Well to Finish Well is an authoritative guide to better leadership in dentistry. Designed to prepare every member of the dental team for the leadership tasks and challenges they will face in general practice, this comprehensive resource helps the reader to develop skills not explicitly taught in traditional dental education.

The book's content has arisen from the Senior Dental Leadership programme which is a public private partnership between the Global Child Dental Fund charity, King's College London, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Henry Schein and Colgate Palmolive.

Throughout the book, practical advice is provided on fourteen capabilities for a balanced and credible leadership approach to application within a clinical context. Topics include:

• how to influence to have impact
• teamwork and collaboration
• credibility: how to gain it and lose it
• values for leadership practice and business ethics
• dealing with difficult people and managing conflict
• body language: fiction and facts

Leadership Skills for Dental Practitioners: Begin Well to Finish Well is a much-needed guide for every member of the dental team.

"This book is a guide for all dental professionals to get off to a good start. Bad habits will constrain our success, our personal effectiveness, as well as our relationships with others. Bad habits can trigger dysfunctional behaviour with the potential to derail us. Good habits, built at an early stage in our careers, not only make us better leaders within our practices, for patients and work colleagues and in the wider community, they help make us more efficient. In life there is an easy way and a hard way. Good habits make leadership life a simpler and more enjoyable experience"-- Provided by publisher. Credibility to Make a Good Start -- Managing Difficult People -- Focus on Your Priorities -- Values for Leadership Practice -- Building and Maintaining Trust -- Raising Energy Levels -- Feedback to Keep on Track -- Courage for When It Gets Tough -- Influence and Persuasion -- Working with Teams -- Change to Implement Excellence -- Recognising Personality Types -- Get Fluent in Body Language -- Be Assertive