Powerful Practice

Fourteen Leading Practice Management Authors come together in one volume sharing strategies for dental practice success.

Includes: “Broken Appointments: Practical Tips to Decrease Lost Time: The Steps to Gaining Control”
By Cindy J. Ishimoto, CDPMA

Order copies for you and your team today! Each chapter is worthy staff meeting material. The entire book is a great practice resource providing tips, techniques, methods and solutions that you can use for day to day success.

$25.00 (plus shipping and handling)

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Forms, Letters and Documents Designed by Cindy J. Ishimoto

This product is a booklet of all of the letters I have for patients, insurance companies, marketing letter samples and the new patient welcome letter examples. It also includes the forms that I place in client offices for continuing care card verbiage, patient registration, health history, dental history and of course the HIPAA documents. A CD is included that has each of the documents for your use and editing.

$150.00 (plus shipping and handling)

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Inscape Publishing

The pioneer and leading provider of instrument - based learning systems.

Inscape learning instruments are designed to help people gain insight into their attitudes, behaviors, and potential in the workplace. By linking these insights to real-world-tested best practices, we accelerate the transformation of insight into action. This insight-to-engagement process helps organizations build a workforce that is more effective, focused and aligned with company strategies and goals.

Most people have a natural desire to understand themselves, to have successful relationships, to do good work and to grow and prosper. Inscape's learning instruments offer strategic features designed to positively motivate adult learners.

How you respond to the needs of your people today will determine your degree of success in achieving organizational goals tomorrow.

The greatest challenge organizations face in developing creative, motivated and productive individuals and teams is to get people actively involved in the learning process.

All of the following products are self-assessment learning instruments. They have detailed instructions on how to take the assessment and include all of the learning documentation to evaluate your responses.

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DiSC® Classic

The foundation of personal and professional success lies in understanding yourself, understanding others, and realizing the impact of personal behavior on others. For nearly 30 years, the DiSC® Classic has unlocked the door to productive communication and relationships for over 30 million people through its DiSC® Dimensions of Behavior learning approach.

DiSC Classic can help improve communication, ease frustration and conflict and develop effective managers and teams.

Bring Out the Best in Your Employees

• understand their own behavior
• learn how and when to adapt their behavior
• improve communication
• promote appreciation of differences
• enhance individual and team performance
• reduce conflict

Team Dimensions Profile®

Successful team members don’t do the same thing at the same time. They do the right thing at the right time. The Team Dimensions Profile helps individuals work from their strengths by identifying their most natural team role, while giving them added appreciation for the contributions of others.

Discover the Right Roles for the Right People

The Team Dimensions Profile identifies the following five team roles:

• Creators generate new ideas and fresh concepts.
• Advancers communicate new ideas and carry them forward.
• Refiners analyze ideas for flaws or revise projects systematically.
• Executors deliver concrete results and seek successful implementations.
• Flexers have an equal preference for most or all of the roles and can often adapt their styles to fit the team’s needs.

Capitalize On Individual Strengths for Total Team Performance

Understanding and capitalizing on individual approaches to group processes is key to creating high-performance teams. Use the Team Dimensions Profile to:

• Match individual strengths with team roles
• Build team unity
• Foster innovation
• Shorten project cycle time
• Reduce conflict

Dimensions of Leadership Profile®

Leaders come in many varieties, ranging from the charismatic visionary to the unassuming team player. Followers can become leaders, and leaders can spend time as followers. Most leaders display several leadership characteristics or "dimensions of leadership."

Discover the 12 Dimensions of Leadership

The Dimensions of Leadership Profile allows learners to explore leadership from one of three points of view: self as leader, another person as leader, or the need for leadership. The profile then guides learners in their personal assessment of four broad aspects of leadership: Character, Analysis, Accomplishment and Interaction. Finally, learners determine how they view 12 specific Dimensions of Leadership:

Time Mastery Profile®

If you could reduce wasted time by just five minutes every hour, productivity would jump 8.3 percent. Efficiency levels would also rise as staff members began to devote more time to completing critical tasks. The Time Mastery Profile® is a complete assessment tool that helps individuals set priorities and manage time more effectively by evaluating their effectiveness in 12 critical areas:

• Attitudes
• Priorities
• Planning
• Interruptions
• Written Communications
• Procrastination

• Goals
• Analyzing
• Scheduling
• Meetings
• Delegation
• Team Time

The advantages of efficient time management go beyond squeezing more tasks into the work day. In companies with successful time-management strategies, teams meet project deadlines more often and managers spend more time pursuing opportunities — and less time struggling with paperwork or attending unproductive meetings. These organizations serve more customers without adding staff, equipment and office space.

In today’s streamlined, fast-moving workplace, it’s more important than ever to make the most of every day. The Time Mastery Profile helps individuals and teams develop customized strategies for improving productivity and increasing efficiency.

Personal Listening Profile®

Successful organizations know that effective communication bolsters employee morale, boosts performance and increases the bottom line. They also know that the strongest influence on the quality and outcome of all communications is the ability to listen well. Only by listening effectively can people respond appropriately.

The Personal Listening Profile® helps individuals identify which of the five listening approaches they use to process, organize, store and retrieve information:

• Appreciative: Listens in a relaxed manner, seeks enjoyment, entertainment or inspiration.
• Empathic: Listens without judging, is supportive of the speaker and learns from the experiences of others.
• Comprehensive: Listens to organize and make sense of information by understanding relationships among ideas.
• Discerning: Listens to get complete information, understand the main message and determine important details.
• Evaluative: Listens in order to make a decision based on information provided and may accept or reject messages based on personal beliefs.

The Personal Listening Profile also helps people understand when their most natural listening approach may not be appropriate, and how to adopt another approach for more successful communication. Organizations use it in a variety of applications, including customer service, leadership development, conflict resolution and team building.