Episode 808
808: Sharpen Your Vision: Defining Your Core Values – Part 3 – Robyn Theisen
808: Sharpen Your Vision: Defining Your Core Values – Part 3 – Robyn Theisen
To continue the series on sharpening your vision, Kirk Behrendt brings back Robyn Theisen, one of ACT’s amazing coaches, with a framework to help you define, establish, and carry out your core values. It is one of the most important things you will ever do as a business owner — so let's do it right! To learn the third step to becoming happier at work, listen to Episode 808 of The Best Practices Show!
Learn More About Robyn:
- Send Robyn an email: robyn@actdental.com
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- Send Kirk an email: kirk@actdental.com
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Episode Resources:
- Watch the video version of Episode 808: https://www.youtube.com/@actdental/videos
- Watch Part 1, Episode 806 with Miranda Beeson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQLizN05Zn8
- Watch Part 2, Episode 807 with Carlie Einarson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLya9ItEvk4
- Download ACT’s Identifying Your Practice’s Core Values tool: https://23476641.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/23476641/Identify%20Your%20Practice_s%20Core%20Values.pdf
- Watch How Should a Company Share Its Values? by Simon Sinek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yE541BY-1c
Main Takeaways:
- Establishing core values will help you attract the right people to your practice.
- It is up to the leader to develop and maintain core values. Lead by example.
- Your team culture will improve when you establish clear core values.
- All business decisions can be filtered through your core values.
- Core values are verbs, not nouns. Make them actionable.
- Have core values alive in the halls, not just on the walls.
- Let your core values bake for at least a year.
Snippets:
0:00 Introduction.
0:57 Why defining your core values is important.
4:37 Core values, explained.
8:10 Core values are verbs, not nouns.
12:46 It isn't just about patients.
14:15 Let your core values bake.
15:10 How core values affect team culture.
22:19 How to define your core values.
26:07 Final takeaways.
Robyn Theisen Bio:
Robyn Theisen brings an entire life and legacy of dental experience to the team and every team with which she works as the daughter and sister of dentists. With almost 20 years of experience in dentistry, her roles ranged from practice management to operations at Patterson Dental to coaching teams. Robyn’s passion is empowering teams to realize that they can dramatically impact the lives of the people they serve by implementing skills and systems to remove barriers to life-changing dental treatment. She has done it for decades and does it every day with dental teams.
Outside of coaching, she enjoys time with her husband, Rob, and two daughters, Emerson and Ruby. She loves traveling, music, fitness, and cheering on the Michigan State Spartans.
