By Chris Barrow on 23 September 2011
I’ll be writing more about this in the ezine at the end of the month…about the coming economic storm and the effect it is going to have on UK dentistry. About solutions – what to do to prepare and ride the storm.
In the meantime…….
Two stories in the last 24 hours from dental principals, telling me how staff members have been gossiping and complaining about changes in working practices that they “don’t like”.
Well, prepare yourself for the hard line from Chris Barrow.
We are about to enter 18 months to 3 years of economic turmoil (the like of which has already been seen in Eire, where some practices are 70% down on sales and have shed staff and clinicians).
I would respectfully suggest to any staff members who have a grievance about “change” to address their concerns to the owner of the practice and not in the staff room or a local wine bar, out of ear-shot.
People are going to lose their jobs in 2012 and the ones who go first WILL BE the well-poisoners.
You have been warned.
If I am asked for my opinion on “what to do” as a business advisor, the answer will be “get rid”.
Zero tolerance.
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23 September 2011 by Chris Barrow
Chris Barrow is co-founder of Barrow Kwong Hing Group of Companies, a private dental corporate active in independent and retail dentistry and post-graduate dental education, operating in the UK and Canada.
Chris has been active as a consultant, trainer and coach to the UK dental profession for over 15 years. As a speaker he is dynamic, energetic and charismatic. In 1993 Chris moved into business coaching and became one of the first UK students at Coach University, from where he graduated as a certified coach. In 1997, he created The Dental Business School (DBS) and the development of a 12-month business coaching programme for dental practice owners and their teams, delivered to over 400 UK dental practices in the following 10 years.
In the last 5 years Chris has acted as a Non-Executive Director, Director and Consultant to a number of dental corporates, whilst maintaining his freelance activity as a dental business coach for independent practice owners. BKH is the culmination of his past experience in the business of UK dentistry
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(@ChrisBKH) (@ChrisBKH) said 
Richard Hughes said 
chas lister said
Great post mate and, I fear, 100% on the money. Has anything changed though or is it just more of the same for the foreseeable future.
Happy, motivated teams selling confidence and turbo charged marketing?
thanks Alex. There are ways out but it will require a mindset change. More about this in my ezine which will be out next week