March is living up to it's reputation here in the Texas hill country.  Stormy, cold, rainy the beginning of the month, beautiful spring weather now.  We should have a gorgeous bluebonnet season this year!  I expect them to explode over the landscape this week or next.

This month we wrap up our series on Haliey's 7 Leadership Lessons with an article on Measuring the Results.   Years ago, I learned from one of my mentors that if we go for the number or result we will surely fail  However, we have to know the numbers as a measurement of whether the service we are providing is working or not.  I know I find myself struggling with what seems to be effective, what I THINK works, and what the measurements tell me.  "If you can measure it, you can move it!" one of my teachers once told me.   So I do look at the numbers a lot!  And I have to remember that an emotional response to the numbers isn’t going to get me anywhere.  It is my job to read the levers and dials and correct my course.  That is what I hope you get from this article. 

We have a second article from our own Laura Lopez.  Laura was a dental professional long before joining us about 5 years ago.  She reminds us to do a bit of Spring Cleaning both in our relationships, our thoughts as well as our offices and homes.

The last article I must give credit to Mike Black.  He found this wonderful troubadour on the web who provided the article on The Seven Effective Habits of Highly Dramatic People!!  It will give you a laugh and it is a great team meeting.   

Spring is a busy time for us here at The Coaching Center.  We are excited about the Dental Boot Kamp (Level I and Masters) in Chicago April 10th and 11th.  May 15th & 16th we have the Leadership Boot Kamp in Denver.  June 5th and 6th is our 2nd ever Speakers Skills Summit here in Austin.

We also now have our Coaching Center Store on the Web Site!  Order Next Appointment Forms, DiSC profiles, Patient Research Forms over the Web!  Check back regularly as we add items, and let me know if there is something you would like to see there.

Please be in touch!

IS IT TIME FOR SPRING CLEANING?

Laura Lopez- Senior National Client Advisor.

If you are like me, it is almost always time for a good “Spring Cleaning”! My desk, the office, the house, closets, windows, I can always find a place that I have not been paying attention to, and has become unruly. I am sure that is true for all of us as winter is finding is way in the history books.

I invite you to consider another kind of “Spring Cleaning", however. I am referring to those attitudes, habits of mind, negative thought patterns we tend to find ourselves falling into without noticing it. We put up with habits of behavior, or gossip, or excuses that in our better moments we would address, and certainly do not like to admit. In moments of clarity I can see that often (not always) the physical environment that needs cleaning is a reflection of my own habits of mind.

Many of you have had an opportunity to experience "Chunking the Junk" session in the Dental Boot Kamp and know the theory. If you take the "Junk" out of your head and your heart and write in on a piece of paper, then throw it at the presenters in the front of the room, I mean the large labeled trash can, then you rid yourself of the "Junk", the negative assessments about ourselves that keep us from truly reaching for the stars.

Do we really "rid ourselves of the junk"?  If you are like most of us, we tend to put it in the attic just in case we might need to bring it out again. We put lots of things in our attic and those things will collect dust and cobwebs. Is now the time to really clean things out once and for all... to the curb for the trash service to take away. Are you ready to "Spring Clean" your minds and hearts? Not only do you rid yourselves of the stuff that needs to be cleared out, but sometimes you will find great "Treasures” stored up there as well, the treasures are the things that you know are nuggets that you could use in our everyday routine of life.

Spring has officially started, and as the new grass begins to turn green, the trees will have leaves once again... and best of all the beauty of colors will be sprayed all over in the form of flowers. This is really a great way to take a look and see if there is anything within that needs to be removed, to make room for the new things that life will send your way.

This event can start with you, and could become a topic for your practices team meeting.