by Trina Poulsen, RDH,BSDH, Santiago Valdez, RDH | Dec 8, 2019 | Team Building Exercises | Infinite Hygiene Consulting
All team members experience some level of stress and fear in the day to day operations of the dental practice. This can lead to a culture of risk-aversion and low trust which has long and short-term consequences for the practice. Forms of fear to consider in the...
by Trina Poulsen, RDH,BSDH, Santiago Valdez, RDH | Dec 8, 2019 | Team Building Exercises | Infinite Hygiene Consulting
Working from Exercise #63, and now that curiosity has been established about a team member and their needs and objectives, we are going to find a way to be helpful. This exercise helps your team work together toward practice and individual goals and can be...
by Trina Poulsen, RDH,BSDH, Santiago Valdez, RDH | Dec 8, 2019 | Team Building Exercises | Infinite Hygiene Consulting
Get really curious with someone on your team or someone you do not know very well. Learn as much as you can about their key objectives, challenges, needs and hardships. By increasing your curiosity, it leads to greater understanding, empathy and mutual trust with your...
by Trina Poulsen, RDH,BSDH, Santiago Valdez, RDH | Dec 8, 2019 | Team Building Exercises | Infinite Hygiene Consulting
In our care of others, we must be aware of our approach in relating to our patients that avoids shame. Shame encourages that feeling of being a “bad” person. Shame can happen with little awareness on our part. Shame can occur with the tone of our voice, the words we...
by Trina Poulsen, RDH,BSDH, Santiago Valdez, RDH | Dec 8, 2019 | Team Building Exercises | Infinite Hygiene Consulting
Conflicts happen when we have an actual or perceived difference regarding needs, values or interests between team members. If you ask most people, they say they do not like conflicts, but the truth is most people value problems more than solutions and conflict more...
