Legal structure is not just an exercise in compliance, but rather growing and protecting your largest asset. Strategically defining your dental organization’s legal structure has multiple significant implications on your company’s ability to grow and scale in many facets of your business, including the ability to bring on additional owners, both licensed and unlicensed, the number of financial books, payrolls, and tax returns necessary for compliance, and the ability to identify, track, and reconcile insurance payments.

The ability of a CEO to be vulnerable and honest can uplift the entire dental organization and inspire others to be deeply connected. Dr. John Meis and Melissa Thomas share some important mindset shifts to becoming more relatable and approachable to your team. Simply put, the more transparent and authentic you are as a leader, the more honest, innovative, and engaged your whole team will be.

A letter from our Spark coach Dr. Jason Howell: Does dentistry ever feel like a lonely profession to you? Have you ever felt no one understands the day in and day out difficulties of dentistry? I know I have felt this way many times throughout my career. Dentistry is not easy. Sometimes I find myself wondering, “Am I the only one that has difficult days?“

Big changes can happen in just a short period of time with the right tools and direction. In this episode of The Strategic Thinker, Spark founders Dr. John Meis and Heather Driscoll discuss the tools one client used to improve his dental organization in just 30 days. Clarity and a strong vision make all the difference. Watch this Vision Day case study to learn how this dentist made important changes.

Leadership in dental practices is for everyone, whether your title suggests it or not. We have, at the very least, a responsibility for leading ourselves and the patients we care for. So, it makes sense for us to work at becoming even more effective leaders. One way to do this is by learning more about what author John Maxwell defines as The Five Levels of Leadership. Knowing where you are and how you can advance may be just the place to get started.