817: Smiles Not Sighs: 3 Steps to Implementing New Ideas in Your Practice – Courtney Dalton
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817: Smiles Not Sighs: 3 Steps to Implementing New Ideas in Your Practice – Courtney Dalton
Is your team allergic to change? Do they sigh at every new idea you have? To start changing the way they react, keep listening to this episode! Kirk Behrendt brings back Courtney Dalton, one of ACT’s amazing coaches, to share three steps to get your team on board and excited for all of your future plans. To learn the most effective ways to get buy-in every single time, listen to Episode 817 of The Best Practices Show!
Learn More About Courtney:
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- Email the ACT Team for the Stages of Change tool: in**@*******al.com
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Episode Resources:
- Watch the video version of Episode 817: https://www.youtube.com/@actdental/videos
- Download ACT’s Creating New Agreements, Policies, & Systems resource: https://23476641.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/23476641/Creating%20New%20Agreements%2c%20Policies%2c%20&%20Systems.pdf
Main Takeaways:
- Help your team understand the why so they buy into your ideas.
- When your why is clear to your team, the how becomes much easier.
- Create a space where your team will feel safe, and their ideas will be heard.
- If your team feels heard, they will align with your ideas even if they don’t agree.
- No weigh-in, no buy-in. Consistently check in with your team on where they are.
- Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. Take your time so that you can do things right.
- Understand the five stages of change and support your team wherever they are at.
Snippets:
0:00 Introduction.
0:58 Why this is an important topic.
1:34 Alignment doesn’t equal agreement.
4:00 Start with why.
9:41 How to get your team on…
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