How To Avoid Being A Micromanager While Trying To Grow Your Dental Business.
Are you known as a micromanager in your business?
Do you tell your employees “to figure it out,” and then critique them on their process for the task you asked them to do?
Do you prefer to do things yourself because no one can do it the right way?
It is okay, we have all done it in some shape or form.
I recently read a story about dental business owners asking their dental assistants to do additional duties at work and it causing office stress.
Now I know times are different now and adjustments need to be made to keep businesses operational…
But how do you properly assign new duties without the risk of affecting office morale?
Because here is the thing, additional duties require management, and management can easily slip into micromanagement, which of course leads to possible office tension.
And office tension can lead to office turnover, which not good for anyone.
So how do you nip office tension in the bud before it takes root?
Well, let me introduce to you Standard Operation Procedures or S.O.P’s for short.
S.O.P’s, allow you to put systems in place to achieve a positive outcome in any business setting that is predictable, transferable, and scalable.
I originally was introduced to S.O.P from reading the book, Extreme Ownership, by Jocko Willink, an X-Navy Seal who transferred his experience from the battlefield to businesses looking to apply leadership for growth.
This book will help you optimize your business and establish leadership from the top down.
Because honestly, if you are going to take anything from this post, then it is this…
If you are stuck micromanaging employees, then you can not 100% perform your duties as an owner/operator.
If you have the bandwidth then I suggest you read Extreme Ownership.
But if you just don’t have the time then, here is a short 3min clip of Jocko explain how to establish S.O.P’s for your business. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcVUwP0V3DE
As always, I hope this helps your dental business grow and until next time.
-Douglas
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