Dental A Team with Kiera Dent Dental A Team

Morgan Hamon is back on the podcast! Morgan is co-founder and president of the HDA Accounting Group, and he gets real about what to consider when dropping insurances. With Kiera, he discusses:
What a healthy profit margin is
How to increase your profit margin
How often to update your fee schedule
When to take the leap and drop insurance
The main KPIs to watch if you don’t have a healthy AR
And a ton more
Morgan also shares what he’s hearing and seeing with the practices that HDA Accounting works with.
About Morgan:
Morgan is a graduate of the University of Arizona’s school of business. Following graduation, he was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy and served for over 10 years as a naval aviator flying carrier-based F/A-18 Hornets. During that time, he deployed to the Persian Gulf and flew combat missions over Iraq in support of Operation Southern Watch. He also served as a flight instructor and landing signal officer for newly winged naval aviators transitioning to the hornet, training pilots in air-to-air combat, and landing on aircraft carriers.
After leaving the Navy, Morgan obtained a master's degree in accounting with a concentration in taxation from Metropolitan State University of Denver. He is a certified public accountant and is the co-founder and president of HDA Accounting Group, leading a large staff of professional accountants delivering a variety of financial accounting and tax services. Morgan regularly conducts practice profitability advising for over 500 dentists nationally, helping them analyze their financial data and identifying strategies for profit improvement.
Episode resources:
Look into HDA Accounting Group
Connect with Morgan over email: morgan@hdagroupdental.com
Listen to episode 430, Your Practice’s Most Important Numbers to Know
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Continuing education is a great way to motivate your team to do and be better at their jobs! In this episode, Kiera talks about the best ways to pursue CE both as an entire office and individually. She shares how the Dental A-Team does CE and gives great ideas for how you can get started now.
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Kiera is joined by Tiff, aka Spiffy Tiffy, to talk about making that perfect day schedule (because YES it’s possible!). The three steps to getting there:
Understand what you want your schedule to feel like
Know how long procedures will take you
Have a daily goal
These three points build you a scaffolding for your day, which you can fill in easily from there.
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How’s business these days?
Cory Pinegar, the guest on this episode, asked Kiera this question and it launched a conversation about being successful and happy — and authentically so. Cory and Kiera get deeply personal about the struggles in their lives, and how they’ve sought to overcome them.
Remember, as a leader or owner, you are your greatest asset to your business, and seeking authenticity is important for your mental, physical, and spiritual self.
Episode resources:
Check out CallForce
Get in touch with Cory directly: cory@getcallforce.com
Listen to episode 454: Dentistry Automation: Will Your Practice Be Left Behind?
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Doctors, are you struggling with OMs who don’t seem to have a desire to work? Kiera offers four questions to ask yourselves in this episode before you write that OM off completely:
Has the OM co-created goals with you?
Does the OM have power to do their job?
Have you been direct in your expectations?
Is there a gap of knowledge?
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Kiera is joined by Brit, and the pair discuss what the Dental A-Team is seeing its practices do for optimization. You may hear “practice optimization” and become overwhelmed with all the things you need to do. Kiera and Brit address that. They encourage the following steps:
Know thyself
Align your goals
Recognize what’s going to get the greatest impact (along the easiest path)
Stop spinning your wheels trying to get everything done. Instead, become laser-focused! 
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