Online event: Reception and telephone skills

Event Type

BDA TRAINING

Event Subject

Personal development

Topics

Development Outcomes (A)
Topic Groups (Patient Communications, Practice Management, Personal Development)

Date

Wednesday 29 March 2023

Time

09:00 - 13:00

Venue

BDA e-learning

Address

www.bda.org/ilearn, ONLINE

Speakers

Heather Dallas

Booking Fees

Essential Member: £95.00
Expert Member: £95.00
Extra Member: £95.00
Senior member: £95.00
Non member: £125.00
Student member: £95.00

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CANCELLED - ONLINE EVENT:

Reception and telephone skills for the whole dental team

Wednesday 29 March 2023 | ONLINE CANCELLED

This interactive workshop is for all members of the dental team who are in a first contact position at the practice and involved in both face-to-face liaison and the receiving/making of telephone calls.

High standards of customer care, good communication and organisational skills are fundamental in securing and retaining patients.

Attendees will receive practical tips and techniques on how to improve their telephone and face-to-face skills, promoting a positive, efficient and professional service.

Learning aim:

To explore techniques for working more effectively in a busy reception role at a dental practice.

Learning objectives:

Recognise the vital importance of generating a professional and approachable first impression
Understand how to put anxious patients at ease
Answer calls warmly, promptly and professionally
Juggle a busy workload including dealing with face-to-face patients and telephone calls at the same time
Know how to deal with difficult situations with the use of assertiveness techniques
Be able to build and maintain rapport with new and regular patients.

Learning content:

Interactive online workshop for all members of the dental team with opportunity for discussion in smaller groups. Attendees will receive lots of practical tips and techniques.

Programme

09:00	Introductions and gathering objectives
09:15	Gathering skills and attitudes
09:25	First impressions (group discussion)
09:40	Anxious patients – (breakout rooms - work on putting patients at ease)
10:15	Break
10:30	Professional telephone etiquette (breakout rooms - quiz)
11:00	Juggling a busy workload (pre-course questionnaire)
11:30	Break
11:45	Dealing with difficult patients (case studies in break out rooms)
13:00	Close of event

Speaker

Heather Dallas, Managing Director, Dallas Development

Heather spent ten years as a senior training manager at Deloitte before starting Dallas Development in January 2000. As well as running various programmes for the BDA, Heather is also a motivational and inspiring public speaker and personal coach in personal impact and career development. Her specialist areas are management skills, team working, personal impact, train the trainers, presentation skills, life balance and handling conflict. She is a qualified MBTI Practitioner, Belbin Team Roles Consultant, Strengths Deployment Inventory Consultant and NLP Master Practitioner and Integral Eye Movement Technique Practitioner.

Hear what previous delegates had to say....

“Excellent event. Great interaction with other practices. Very informative.” Sarah, Northern Ireland

“Plenty of tips and helpful strategies for me to put into practice. I feel much more confident in my reception duties.” Rebecca, Essex

“I feel refreshed and empowered to be able to deal with my job effectively.” Michelle, Cornwall

Course format

The course will take place on Zoom using the interactive features such as break out rooms and the chat function. Delegate numbers are limited, enabling detailed group discussion. A couple of short breaks will be included to maximise participant's attention spans.

CPD

3 hours 30 minutes CPD

In order to qualify for a CPD certificate attendees must attend this live session and complete the post-event engagement and evaluation survey.

CPD certificates will be issued once attendance reports have been validated.

Fees

BDA Member	£95
Non-member	£125
Dental Care Professional (non-dentist member of the team)	£95

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Cancellation

All cancellations must be received in writing by email to events@bda.org. Cancellations received 7 days or more prior to a virtual event will be entitled to a 100% refund. For cancellations received after this time, no refund will be given. Failure to attend the event on the day will constitute late cancellation and no refund will be given. Certificates will not be issued for partial attendance

Please note: this online event will not be recorded and it will not be possible to view on-demand afterwards.