Maintaining Accelerate Momentum
Action Planner For
_______________________________
Name of Office
Region: ___________________________
Office RA: __________________________
Office PA: __________________________
Non-Technical Actions: (choose 3 +)
Practice Accelerate communication skills with team (ie: discuss why abfractions or golfball molars are a concern – use hand puppets to describe)
Commit to incorporating hand puppets into patient communications
Commit to targeting ____ number of patients to have the malocclusion discussion each day during morning huddle
Commit to listening to patient’s chief complaint and how modifying their occlusion may play a part in the solution
Add your ‘rules’ for malocclusion to your Treatment Planning for Predictability and share with team
Incorporate a 5 minute post-day communication feedback session where all team members share what worked well in communications with patients, what didn’t, and what they would do differently next time (Use ‘See the 8 Effectiveness Monitor’)
Team member(s) in Treatment
Technical Actions: (Choose 3 [or less if you chose more non-technical actions])
Review Align Malocclusion DVD (given to each practice at Accelerate meetings and available on intranet in Ed Dept)
Photography Training - taking Pictures &/or Manipulating Pictures in Dentrix ® or
Kodak (Review ‘See the 8 Photographs’ online at: Departments | Education | Clinical Videos)
Chart Audit during team meeting (Review 10 random charts of recently seen patients [5 NP &
5 Recare] for “See the 8” photographs)
Dr and Hygiene Meeting on Malocclusion to create synergy
Lunch & Learn with Align ® Territory Manager for additional training/support on
Case Acceptance
Download Patient Case Portfolio from Align ® website on Tx Room Computer (See attached info sheet to do this in each operatory)
Have In-Office Coaching on Invisalign ® and “Closing” the case (work with your RA)
E-Connect – every other Friday at 11 am CST, have case in ClinCheck ®
Additional Online Invisalign ® CE via www.aligntechinstitute.com (accessed through clincheck with VIP password) – 2 hours CE takes average of 30 minutes
Accelerate Follow up Meetings (ongoing in 2011, 4 per year in 2012, class size limited to 20, dates and registration online at www.hdcevents.com)
** Set a target date for each action item selected