Schulich Mini-MBA:
Dentist Business Leadership Program

Kick off the program by diving into WIN Thinking. Discover leadership frameworks and techniques to pursue the best version of yourself and ideate about a personal entrepreneurial project. Then, delve into leading healthcare transformation and set the context for transforming yourself and your organization/dental practice. 

Examine the decision-making and accountability structures of hospitals, governments, and regional authorities. See strategic management concepts at play in various settings with changing technologies and methods of health delivery. Cover key topics in the dentistry world, such as costs and financing, consolidation and clinical integration, and challenges and threats. 

Build on the knowledge you gained from Strategic Management I. Develop a robust business strategy to deal with competing practices. Discover methods to highlight your unique selling proposition and distinguish your practice in a competitive market. 

Identify key metrics that impact appraisal. Learn the factors involved in buying and selling a practice and issues associated with purchasing or joining a dental corporation. Dive into the opportunities and challenges caused by larger clinic networks like 123Dentist and Dentalcorp. 

Master the skills to negotiate, persuade and influence others. Examine evidence-based approaches to building agreement between parties and negotiate with strategy. Run through how to best prepare for, evaluate the pros and cons, and be persuasive in negotiations.  

Emotional Intelligence refers to a set of emotional and social skills and competencies that influence the way we perceive and express ourselves, develop and maintain social relationships, cope with challenges, and use the information in emotions in effective and meaningful ways. Explore how you can leverage EQ competencies and apply current EQ tools and techniques to enhance performance and productivity. Increase your leadership capacity by benchmarking, leveraging and setting plans for intentionally developing your EQ. 

Learn about strategies and techniques for powerful, compelling, and impactful communications, including successfully giving and receiving feedback. Adopt management styles that highly effective managers use and manage challenging conversations. Familiarize yourself with frameworks and best practices that lead to more successful conversations in both personal and professional settings.  

Explore leading empirical evidence and practices for conceiving and executing a marketing strategy and building strong businesses. Learn the economics and neuroscience behind consumer behaviour today. Map out how behavioural economics and neuroscience inform our knowledge of how to positively impact consumer buyer behaviour today. 

Build on the knowledge you gained from Marketing & Brand Strategy I. .Examine some of the world’s top companies and how they successfully execute their marketing and brand strategy. Explore opportunities for dentists to increase their marketing and brand presence in their own marketplace. Identify opportunities to increase your marketing and brand presence. 

Don’t flounder with the law: understand it from top to bottom to protect yourself and your business. Get hands-on knowledge on the legal and regulatory considerations of starting, purchasing, operating, expanding, and selling a dental practice. Learn what you need to know about  Employment Law, Corporate Law, Tax Law, IP Protection, Regulatory Compliance and Leasing.  

Learn human resources from a managerial standpoint with new perspectives on actively managing your own practice. Attract and recruit top talent and staff, and manage ongoing support staff issues.Answer pressing questions such as how to manage support staff issues.  

What is cybersecurity in relation to your dental practice, and why does it matter? Answer these questions and examine different risks/threats, including Social Engineering, Phishing, Ransomware, and Safe Email Use. Cover the basic safeguarding strategies you need to have in place to protect your practice. 

Get expert tips to improve daily business operations and increase patient satisfaction. Learn the best practices to better manage your dental clinic for growth and profitability.Hear the latest know-hows from experts in the industry for succeeding.  

Dentists work with many stakeholders: Government, suppliers, community, media, patients, regulatory bodies, clinical staff, families and associations. This session is designed to provide you with tools to develop an effective strategy for managing both internal and external stakeholders. Don’t fumble with your communications–smoothly manage current and prospective stakeholders.  

Explore the role of disruptive technologies, innovation and new business models to drive investment, innovation and transformation in healthcare. Leverage public and private partnerships and understand complex regulatory requirements. Explore value creation through the art and science of business planning to drive investment, innovation and transformation in healthcare.

Examine how dentistry is governed and managed, funded and paid for, and who and how it is delivered; the role of sub-national, national and international public and private agencies and markets; and how the political economy of dentistry is changing. 

Learn the fundamentals of investment and financing as a leader in private practice. Make investment decisions based on the allocation of resources and asset valuation.Top it all off by effectively allocation scarce resources to projects in a business and mastering asset valuation.