Athena Consulting: Dental Practice Solutions
Practice Management
“The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller
With Athena Consulting on your team, you will spend far less time worrying about the day-to-day headaches and financial future of your practice. You’ll be free to concentrate on what’s most important: your chair-side relationship with your patients and their oral health.
That’s the Athena Consulting difference: We’re as attentive to our clients as you are to yours. Every dentist has different challenges and aspirations, so our team will specifically structure your dental-consulting program to address your special issues.
- Initial on-site practice analysis: We will review your office systems, meet with the staff individually, study your scheduling techniques, gather data from your records – and spend several hours with you, to learn your perceived challenges, immediate issues and where you would like to take your practice. We will evaluate your staff members to ensure that your team is right for your unique practice. This process requires two or three days in your practice during their first visit, depending on the size of your dental team.
- Business plan: With a detailed, easy-to-understand blueprint in hand, you will understand the full scope of management you need in your office. You’ll learn skills and tools necessary to operate the practice now and throughout your future.
- Strategic planning: You, your spouse and the Athena Consulting team will discuss strategies for your practice’s future success. Your questions at this session will clarify your role as the doctor and practice owner as well as the management principles to be implemented in your office.
- Implementation: Based on your needs, financial analysis and strategic-planning session, our team will design a schedule to train, coach and implement our recommendations in your practice. All clients receive extensive monitoring of their practice, its finances and performance, as well as team-training materials, fee review and recommendations, and much more.
- Duration: Successful practice management is not an event. This program will be a process requiring a minimum of one year, but it varies greatly depending on your commitment, needs and logistics. Generally, the management follow-up process will continue until you and your staff are completely comfortable and the practice is operating efficiently and profitably.
- Investment: We like to say that our dental-practice management consulting is free since most of our clients follow our recommendations and make more in their first year alone than they invest with us. Our non-refundable fees are due at the beginning of your program. This assures us you will remain focused on your commitment to succeed. Financing is available through several lenders.
Athena Consulting’s dental-practice management is based on sound business planning, thorough implementation, training and coaching for success and follow-through. We’ll be right there in the trenches with you and your staff. To learn more about dental practice-management consulting and set up a free practice analysis, please email us, or give us a call at (303) 412-5749.
Before you choose a dental practice-management program and consultant, please read Athena Ezell’s article, What you always wanted to know About Management.