The Spark Team regularly creates articles and videos with advice, tips, and resources on how to operate and grow successful group dental practices and DSOs. Here you can find all of our content.
It’s vital for dental practices to take advantage of the ridiculous amount of information available through software. Here’s a list of our best tips for finding the most useful data points and using that information to make better decisions in your practice.
Continue ReadingHiring and training new employees is always costly. In addition, research shows that employees are more likely to leave in the first few months of employment than they are later down the road. Team members with a longer tenure tend to stay put and perform better. So, how do you get people to stay through those first pivotal months and get up to speed quickly?
Continue ReadingAs your organization grows, your reporting structure must evolve in order to provide meaningful, actionable information. There are 2 common ways financial reports tend to lose value as dental practices grow, through the depth of details and by reporting only for compliance and not usefulness. Here are some ways to clean up these reports so they can help you spot any issues, make better decisions, and move your practice forward.
Continue ReadingIs it time to make a change? If you’re unable to pivot and maneuver changing circumstances in your dental practice, it’s almost impossible to reach your goals. You’ll end up stuck. So, it’s crucial to evaluate your organizational structure, systems, and processes in a way that will give you clear indicators of when you need to pivot those elements to achieve your goals.
Continue ReadingWhat if there was a way to utilize dental emergencies to help measure the effectiveness of the treatment planning process? Every day dental practices encounter patient emergencies. Dental practices can learn a lot about the effectiveness of their treatment planning process by doing a quick analysis of emergencies in patients that have been seen in the office within the last 12 months.
Continue ReadingThe Spark Team has put together a set of complimentary tools and resources for group dental practices and DSOs. These tools will help you start to implement growth strategies right away.