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 
• Follow Robyn on ACT’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/actdental
• Send Gina an email: gina@actdental.com 
• Send Kirk an email: kirk@actdental.com 

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• Subscribe to The Best Practices Show: https://the-best-practices-show.captivate.fm/listen
• Join The Best Practices Association: https://www.actdental.com/bpa
• Join ACT’s To The Top Study Club: https://www.actdental.com/ttt
• See the ACT Dental/BPA Live Event Schedule: https://www.actdental.com/event
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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.

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