Weekend at the Pankey Institute
I had the pleasure of attending a Pankey Institute alumni seminar. Even though I am not a dentist nor a Pankey graduate, I was able to attend the seminar at a nominal fee.
Initially, I was told I had to pay the full price, even though I was not able to attend all the events and was only interested in the practice management aspects of the seminar. I was disappointed at their response. I thought that it would be to their advantage to have me attend and learn more about Pankey. They would make money from my attendance and educate me to help them in promoting. The Pankey Institute reconsidered and invited me to come at the reduced rate.
The main reason I went was because I wanted to see a dental consultant that I followed in action. His name is Kirk Behrendt. His website www.actdental.com has very interesting articles and You Tube videos. Kirk did a fabulous job.
Kirk is the Tony Robbins of the dental consulting field. He has great energy!
The topic of Kirk's presentation was The Thriving Dental Practice of the Future.
He discussed eight principles:
- Have Clarity in what you are doing
- Framework - systems run businesses and people run systems
- Right People - people are NOT your greatest assets; only the RIGHT people are (Good to Great)
- Energy is the fundamental currency of high performance (not time); get rid of energy suckers! - The Power of Full Engagement
- Overhead is a Choice
- Life - purpose of life is NOT to serve business; business should serve life
- Community Mentor Coach - core values and actual disciplines need to be matched up
- Significance - the greatest danger is not that our aim is to high and we miss it, but its too low and we reach it. - Michelangelo
He also performed the following act at the seminar. It is hilarious!!
The Right People:
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