Coaching Women Dentists to Balanced Success
As highly-trained specialists women dentists have a unique set of qualities and character traits that helped them navigate through the challenges of their education and training to achieve professional status. Dr. Natalie Archer reflects on how coaching helps her improve work-life balance.
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As a professional class, women and men dentists are recognized for their high standards of performance, compulsive, perfectionist nature, need for social recognition and approval. Dentists tend to work in small clinics, isolated from their peers. Their work requires a high degree of precision, focus and attention.
Women dentists, like their male counterparts, ensure healthy teeth and happy smiles. These, in turn can help them build a thriving dental practice and the opportunity to create a healthy personal life.
What’s in the balance?
Balancing Clinical Practice and Business Management
Private practice entails managing both the clinical practice and effective business management – two very different functions that require very different skill sets! Common sources of stress for women dentists include:
Practice management:
- Staying on schedule
- Time pressures and workload management
- Management of auxiliary staff
- Financial management issues
- Government regulations and reporting requirements
- Anxious or difficult patients
- Fear of litigation and making mistakes
- Working undesirable hours
- Working multiple jobs to get the practice established
Self-Management:
- Expectations management
- Technical and business management standards
- Personal and professional relationships
- Stress management
- Healthy lifestyle practices
- Juggling multiple roles (parent, caregiver, professional)
Stress and Burnout
Unmanaged, chronic stress can lead to burnout and women dentists, not unlike other independent professionals, are prone to anxiety disorders, clinical depression and burnout. Burnout, described as a gradual erosion of the person, is best avoided.
Characteristics include:
- exhaustion mentally, emotionally and spiritually
- a negative, indifferent or cynical attitude toward patients, clients or co-workers
- feelings of dissatisfaction with achievements and negative self-evaluation.
The affects of burnout can wreak havoc on personal and professional relationships.
Fun - Antidote to Stress
Learning to manage stress, relax and have fun is critical to building a successful dental practice and a happy personal life.
5 Strategies to Enhance Coping Skills
- Set healthy boundaries with yourself, your clients, associates and family.
- Build healthy lifestyle practices
- Surround yourself with positive, supportive people and develop communications skills
- Join a professional support group and network regularly with professional colleagues
- Partner with a life coach to cultivate a strong, positive self-image and build a thriving practice and a happy, healthy personal life.
14 Good Reasons for Women Dentists to Get Started Right Away
The Build your Practice and Balance Your Life, Coaching Program will help you:
- Enhance satisfaction, work-life balance and personal fulfillment
- Reflect on your life, develop self awareness and improve lifestyle practices
- Stay grounded in your values and intentions
- Be mindful of maintaining the basics that will keep you healthy and sane
- Discover and develop your latent talents, unique strengths, and forgotten dreams
- Summon adequate discipline and motivation to make and maintain positive behaviour changes
- Identify and implement critical success strategies.
- Create more successful relationships with others.
- Retool your career so it takes full advantage of the energy, wisdom and talents you possess.
- Design systems, processes and workflow to build your practice.
- Adopt effective habits of perception and behavior for living, leading and accelerating positive change
- Feel more centered and grounded and enjoy greater sense of self
- Be proactive in building resilience and achieving excellence in your profession.
- Be more present with your patients and those you love.
Learn more about our Business Management Coaching program
Coaching Gets Results
The April 2009 ICF Global Coaching Client Study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for the International Coach Federation (ICF) reported that:
- 96% of survey respondents were very satisfied with their experience saying that they would repeat the coaching experience.
- When monetary gains are an expected outcome, coaching generates a very good return on investment for clients. By design, not all types of coaching lead to monetary gains for the client. The median personal ROI indicated that those seeking a financial gain can expect a return in the range of 3.44 times their investment.
- 86% of those able to provide figures to calculate company ROI indicated that ther company had at least made their investment back with the median return of 7 times the initial investment. One fifth of respondents indicated an ROI of at least 50 (5000%) times the initial investment while a further 28% saw an ROI of 10 to 49 times their investment.
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Based in Toronto, Canada, KAIZEN Lifestyle Management partners with dentists, physicians, lawyers, executives and other independent and creative professionals who are compelled to contribute toward developing a more sustainable world without forsaking themselves in the process.
To learn more about how you can benefit from coaching programs and wellness services please contact us at 416 686 6463 for a offer a free no obligation consultation or
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