Quarterly Focus (Q3 2025): “Become the Leader Your Future Practice Needs”

Core Idea:

Before you own the practice, you must learn to think, lead, and act like the kind of owner people want to follow. This quarter builds your leadership credibility, strategic mindset, and ability to drive culture — even without the title.

August – Personal Ownership & Strategic Thinking

Theme: “Start Thinking Like an Owner Before You’re the Owner”

Core Resource:

• The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber – Learn why most small businesses fail and how to build systems that scale without chaos.

Podcast Episodes:

•  Dental Practice Heroes— “Practice Entrepreneurship Vs. Associateship"

• Shared Practices Podcast — “The Path from a solo Doctor Practice to a Multi-Doctor Practice”

Action Steps:

• Conduct a “Practice Audit” at your current office: What systems are missing? What processes would break if the owner disappeared for a week?

• Review your personal “Ownership Philosophy” — what kind of owner do you want to be and why?

September – Culture, Influence, and Management

Theme: “Be the Culture Catalyst, Not the Complainer”

Core Resource:

• “The New One Minute Manager” By Ken Blanchard - Managing your team, getting results, and enjoying a healthy work culture

Podcast Episodes:

• Dentalpreneur Podcast — “Multiple Practices, Culture, and Alignment Pt 1”

•  Dentalpreneur Podcast — “Multiple Practices, Culture, and Alignment Pt 2”

Action Steps:

• Propose and lead one small team improvement (example: create one minute goals, one minute praising, and one minute redirect (if necessary) with 1 or more staff members, feedback session, or mini-training).

• Reflect: What resistance did you meet? What did you learn about influencing change?

October – Vision, Strategy, and Practice Design

Theme: “Design a Practice Worth Building”

Core Resource:

• TLP - Looking for YOUR Lifestyle Practice (Part 1 - Part 5)

Action Steps:

• Review your practice vision: Include practice values, desired services, team culture, facility vibe, and financial goals.

• Pick one “non-negotiable” for your future practice and explain why it matters.

• Start a “future practice folder” if you don’t have one already: save instruments, practice design photos, practice systems, and any other notes for the kind of practice you want to create.

Quarter Wrap-Up (End of October)

Group Share Prompts:

• What did you learn about yourself this quarter as a leader?

• How did your vision evolve from the start of the quarter to now?

• What’s one trait or skill you’re committed to mastering before ownership?

Reminder:

You don’t need the title to start practicing leadership. Leadership now creates leverage later.

Let’s build practices worth owning — and lives worth living.