AADOM23 Opening Day
Featuring Keynote Chad Hymas
Thursday Morning Keynote
Who Need's Legs When You Have Wings
Keynote Speaker: Chad Hymas
Motivating presentations must be accompanied by solutions that change and inspire lives. Today more than ever, people are looking not simply for entertainment, but for direction and solid answers.
- Conquer the emotional paralysis that robs vision and momentum
- Turn obstacles into incredible opportunities
- Harness the power of change and rise above to progress
- Tap into unseen personal power and inner strength to accomplish seemingly impossible dreams
Thursday Afternoon Educational Sessions
Eagles Don't Fly in Flocks, but Seagulls Never Get Lonely
Speaker: Chad Hymas
How do you find the golden egg without ruffling people’s feathers? Every person on your team has a unique personality. Each task, therefore, creates a dilemma!
See how:
- The ostrich personality is best at focus
- The chicken personality brings stability
- The seagull empowers the team
- The eagle inspires leadership
Appreciation and Retreats to ROCK Your Practice
Speaker: Lois Banta
Never ever has there been a more important time in our practices to learn the value of appreciation and the benefits of practice retreats.
- Learning the “language” of appreciation in the workplace
- How to show appreciation based on the individual
- How to create a motivated team environment
- Why to have a retreat
- Strategic planning for growth
- How to communicate effectively
- Lead with intention
Recruit, Retain, Rejoice! Learn How to Recruit, Select, Develop, and Retain the Best Dental Industry Talent
Speaker: Kristen Barden
Hiring has become one of the most frustrating issues in dental practice. Managers are bogged down with the entire process, and just getting a candidate to show up for an interview has become impossible.
- Understand how to develop a consistent and scalable hiring process
- Learn how to hire the best talent for your practice
- Discuss how to elevate your candidate experience with better onboarding
The Wild World of Dental Insurance
Speaker: Teresa Duncan, MS, FAADOM
Are you stressed out with PPOs, leased networks, and patient objections? You are not alone. Managers and insurance coordinators face an increasingly complex insurance landscape. This discussion will help you prepare by explaining the why and how of these industry shifts.
- Understand current industry conditions
- Learn why plan design has become problematic
- Improve your claims management systems
Leading vs. Managing, the Ultimate Imposter Syndrome
Speaker: Geri Gottlieb
Exclusively for AADOM Designation Holders and 2023 Inductees, FAADOM, MAADOM or DAADOM
- Learn the Difference between the two and when to do both.
- Understand your geniuses (skillsets), and those of your team and how to leverage them.
- Overcome and work through Imposter Syndrome and the loneliness of being a leader.
OSHA Compliance Doesn't Have to be Boring!
Speaker: Tija Hunter
Join Tija Hunter for this interactive and fun course to discuss OSHA and Infection Control, blood-borne pathogen standards and the latest news to keep your practices compliant. You will discover things you didn’t even know.
- Discuss safe work practices
- Understand the documentation you need but don’t have
- Discover how to get your team engaged, get on the same page and be compliant.
Lynne Leggett, BS, FAADOM is the founder and CEO of Victory Dental Management. With over 20 years of business experience, in addition to being a seasoned basketball coach, Lynne understands that having employees ≠ a team. Her passion is helping dental practices reach their full potential, increase their productivity and profitability while enabling them to deliver the best patient care and patient experience. She is a member of the Academy of Dental Management Consultants, National Speakers Association, Speaking Consulting Network, AADOM Speaker Consultant Alliance, and a lifetime member and Fellow of AADOM. She is the author of You Can’t Coach Quit, online CE courses, multiple webinars, and her monthly newsletter the “Coach’s Corner”. She is a contributing author to several dental magazines and multiple state association newsletters.
Burnout: That's It, I'm Done
Speaker: Lynne Leggett, FAADOM
Burnout is on the rise in every industry and dentistry is no exception. We now know that mental health and stress play a huge role in our physical health and our ability to be functional.
- Learn the 3 leading causes of burnout
- Create a strategy for preventing or reducing burnout in the practice
- Identify signs and symptoms that burnout is imminent
- Define stages of burnout and how to address them in yourself or others
What Do I Do with This Hygiene Department?
Speaker: Emme Sanders, RDH
Knowing the hygiene department is the backbone of the practice, it can be difficult to balance achieving hygiene benchmarks and keeping the team calibrated and consistent with patient care.
- Learn about psychological safety and its impact on the team
- Discover ways to calibrate your team on Perio Disease and Restorative Co-Diagnosis
- Leave with your team a calibration success plan
Secrets of Creating a Culture of Success
Speaker: Steve Anderson
The best practices are built on a foundation of 80% repeat and referral patients.
Creating a Culture of Success® is the magnate that keeps patients coming back and referring others.
Creating a Culture of Success® is the magnate that keeps patients coming back and referring others.
Discover the key systems of a proven Culture of Success that you can implement immediately for higher production and profitability including:
- The #1 action to take to catapult your culture to the top.
- 4 questions you must be able to answer with a “Yes.”
- The secret of the biggest organizational turn-around in history.
- The one document every practice must have for the best repeat and referral business.
And much, much more.
Founder and CEO of LionSpeak, Katherine is an international speaker, author, and performance coach, best known for helping professionals develop courageous, unscripted conversations with patients, clients, co-workers, and audiences. Whether communicating from a treatment room, consult room, boardroom, or stage, audiences love her simple yet powerful formulas for delivering messages with clarity, courage, and inspiration.
For 30 years Katherine has keynoted annual conferences in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., coached thousands of dental professionals in hundreds of practices, and consulted or presented for companies such as Care Credit, Henry Schein, Patterson Dental, Dentsply Sirona, e-Assist, Seattle Study Club, Cain Watters, Pacific Dental Services, and Philips Oral Healthcare.
The Leadership Lighthouse: Be the Beacon for Your Team’s Fullest Potential
Closing Keynote Speaker: Katherine Eitel Belt
The workforce and the workplace have changed, and we must adapt our leadership if we want our teams to perform at a high level, communicate maturely, think for themselves, and meet or surpass our goals. The good news is… it’s a whole lot easier than you think. You’ve just got to avoid the old style of leadership and step into a more modern, updated approach.
The workforce and the workplace have changed, and we must adapt our leadership if we want our teams to perform at a high level, communicate maturely, think for themselves, and meet or surpass our goals. The good news is… it’s a whole lot easier than you think. You’ve just got to avoid the old style of leadership and step into a more modern, updated approach.
Communication and leadership coach, Katherine Eitel Belt, will reveal the new science around coaching, feedback, and leadership and show us how to incorporate it into the way we lead and manage self-actualized teams in today’s world. She’ll show us how to align our team, inspire their performance, and how incorporating this new approach can create a huge business advantage in the highly competitive employment and business environment we all face today.
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this session, participants will understand:
- how the current science supports the value of coaching.
- how coaching differs from supervising, and why it is a superior choice to train and grow the current workforce.
- various coaching techniques to support your Courageous Conversations with employees.