In healthcare practice, especially the dental sector, morning huddles are highly effective in helping ensure that the office remains focused, motivated, and dedicated for the rest of the day. As a dentist running a dental clinic or office, you may want to leverage the power of morning huddles to help bring together members of your team. But how powerful are morning huddles in facilitating the success of your dental clinic?
An ideal 10-minute morning huddle session brings together members of your team to contemplate various aspects of the team’s past and anticipated performance. During the brief meeting, pooling together key metrics relating to the team’s past performances helps to identify particular areas where the performance was not at par. In addition, the opportunity presented helps to come up with recommendations on areas of improvement that should be focused on in the day’s duties.
The brief meeting is also an opportunity for the team leader to designate different responsibilities to different persons. For example, it is the duty of the chief dentist to brief members of the front office desk on how to handle customers whenever they have to wait for a substantially long time for a dental appointment. The exchange of information between all parties during the brief meeting helps to bring the team together to ensure optimal performance.
The morning huddle session is also a great opportunity for the entire team to set new goals to be achieved during the day. Among the various milestones that can be established include setting a specific target number of customers to serve. During the meeting, members can contemplate on vital aspects such as how to coordinate faster patient service for the office to meet financial goals for the day. The performance of the clinic is a factor of numerous parties, which should be engaged to work in unison and achieve a specific objective.
Lastly, morning huddles also come in handy in helping to keep members of the team motivated. Bringing together the different persons who make the dental practice a success acts as a rallying point from where to dissipate common performance hindrances at a personal level, such as fatigue and loss of focus. Motivating each team member is the easiest way to rejuvenate dedication within the entire clinic staff.