Training Requirements
We practice dentistry differently from any other franchise. Below are the beginning training materials required to begin understanding how we practice dentistry, and serve our patients and team members.
Table Mountain Seminars (click here)
- “Lean and Mean” Practice Management - A 7 hour studio presentation of the basic seminar: includes philosophy, overhead analysis, collection policy, appointment control, marketing, Rick’s “flagship” presentation, and foundation for all the other presentations. Click here for mp3's (556MB)
- “Lean and Mean” Group - A 7 hour studio presentation partnership format. Recapture 2-3 times the capital equity in your practice during your career, prior to retirement. This material, if implemented, will ultimately make the biggest positive impact on your professional life. This is Rick’s favorite presentation. Click here for mp3's (626MB)
- “Lean and Mean”Hygiene - (Not required) A great new way to approach Hygiene. Click here for mp3's (600MB)
Books
- Good to Great -- This book addresses a single question: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Based on a five year research project comparing teams that made a leap to those that did not, Good to Great shows that greatness is not primarily a function of circumstance; but largely a matter of conscious choice and discipline. This book discusses concepts like Level 5 Leadership, First Who (first get the right people on the bus, then figure out where to drive it), and the Flywheel.
Leadership and Self Deception - For too long, the issue of self-deception has been the realm of deep-thinking philosophers, academics, and scholars working on the central questions of the human sciences. The public remains generally unaware of the issue. That would be fine except that self-deception is so pervasive that it touches every aspect of life. "Touches" is perhaps too gentle a word to describe its influence. Self-deception actually determines one's experience in every aspect of life. The extent to which it does that, and in particular the extent to which it is the central issue in leadership, is the subject of this book.