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Setting our Team up for Success Regarding New Team Members

Welcome to the Jameson Files. I'm your host, Carrie Webber, and I'm so glad to be with you once again for another episode. As we roll into the end of 2023, something that we're finding in the seasons of our dental practices is perhaps some of you are overcoming that challenge of finding new employees and getting people hired. Today I want to talk about setting your team up for success when you are bringing a new employee or a new member of your team on board whether that is now or in the very near future. We're going to talk about things to consider and ways to successfully and effectively onboard new employees. And then the big question that is often asked is, how do we retain superstar team members? 

I recently did a presentation on recruiting, onboarding, and retaining new employees, rockstar dental team members. When we asked the group what the most important pieces of this topic were that they were hoping that we would cover, the large majority of the requests and the goals and objectives for our time together were how do I retain, how do I build accountability, how do I build engagement in my team? So it really has come full circle to not finding team, but now that I've found somebody great, how do I keep them? So again, today on the Jameson files, we're going to talk about how to set our team up for success, especially when we're talking about hiring, onboarding, and those new employees that are so valuable. Of course all of our team members are valuable, but how do we keep these valuable team members onboard and have them be as successful as possible in their new role? So let's get started.

Have a Clear Structure in Place When Onboarding a New Employee

When I think about the successful onboarding process of a new employee, it's important that we have clear structure and intention in place on that onboarding process and timeframe. We're looking at those 30, 60, 90 days of how to make this successful. We're measuring from all of that time as we're training, is this person the right fit? Can this person do the job that I have hired them to do? Am I training them successfully and clearly? Am I giving clear expectations of the role so that the person that's coming on board fully understands their responsibilities in this position in my practice? And do they have the desire and the willingness to do the job to the level of expectation that I have clearly set? So this is the thing that we want our pro training programs in our dental practices to do. We want them to help a new team member get fully invested into the practice and into your practice's culture, get fully productive in their role so they are as productive as possible and meeting or exceeding the expectations that you have set for that employee, and get interested in being successful.

We want them to be bought in and interested in experiencing full success and excellence in their role in our practice. So remember, we want our new team members to get fully invested, fully productive, and get interested in being successful. That's what a great onboarding and training program is going to do in your practice. So when you think about effective training, I want you to start thinking about what the plan is that we have in place to help this person be successful. We want clarity and consistency in training and onboarding. So as you are preparing for this new employee that's coming on board in your practice or that will be in the future, think about these things and make sure that we have all of these items in place in that training and onboarding window of time. 

Have Clear Roles and Responsibilities Lined Out For the New Team Member