Seminars

Please visit the Calendar Page for a list of dates and locationsfor the below seminars.

"Synergistic Marketing
for the Sophisticated Practice"

4 Hours

Presenter:
Joseph T. Thompson, DMD, MAGD

 A seminar that has been especially designed to launch a series of related seminars and workshops. It is based on proven success principles that will help practitioners, and their staff, maximize practice potential.

The afternoon is divided into a series of six volumes:

  • Volume I - Overview of the basic components vital to the marketing of the most successful organizations
  • Volume II - Building the Dynamic Team by attracting and retaining quality players
  • Volume III - Excellence in Customer (Patient) Service is required simply because a satisfied customer really doesn't count any more in our current competitive atmosphere. You need to invoke the WOW factor!
  • Volume IV - The initial Examination as a Practice Building Tool because first impressions are key
  • Volume V - Case Acceptance as the major driver in the marketing of any practice
  • Volume VI - Sensible Summary in completing the written marketing plan

"Show Me The Monet: The Artful Blending of Exquisite Dentistry and Enhanced Profitability"

7 Hours

Presenter:
Joseph T. Thompson, DMD, MAGD

 Although the title is a play on words, this is a seven hour seminar that compares dentistry with the Impressionist Period in the art world with emphasis (unlike the impressionist painters) on having your success come before you die. It demonstrates how dentistry is an art and a science, but that business and marketing principles are essential to practice success. The seminar presses the participants to evaluate your present "get real" position. It also attends to goal setting, comprehending practice finance, developing a marketing and business blueprint, updating excellence in customer (patient) service, improving staff efficiency and motivation. When these principles are systematized and implemented, enhanced profitability results.

"Integrating the Diabetic Patient into your Practice"

3.5 Hours

Presenter:
Joseph T. Thompson, DMD, MAGD

 There are 16 million diabetics today in the USA with 8 million of them being undiagnosed. The diabetic patient deserves special care in the dental setting. This seminar reviews the etiology and treatment of the disease with special emphasis on the safe integration of this patient into your practice. The dentist can often make the initial diagnosis prior to being referred to a physician. This seminar helps the dentist and entire staff recognize and treat the diabetic patient.

"Diabetes and Dental Medicine"

1 Hour

Presenter:
Joseph T. Thompson, DMD, MAGD

 This is a one hour seminar especially prepared to those diabetic patients within the community. It reviews the oral manifestations of diabetes and the recognition of dental disease and its treatment. The goal is to help the diabetic patient control their disease and lead a healthier life.

"Managing Change; A Core Competency in the Delivery of Today's Healthcare"

1 Hour

Presenter:
Joseph T. Thompson, DMD, MAGD

 A motivational seminar for healthcare professionals who now face the most challenging times of their lives in managing change. It targets physicians, nurses, lab technicians and other healthcare professionals who are looking for reasons to remain in healthcare.

"Building a Successful Business Plan for 2003 Volumes I & II"

3.5 Hours

Presenter:
 Steven Wouch, CPA
Joseph T. Thompson, DMD, MAGD

 Presented at the end of the calendar year to help financially prepare healthcare professionals for the 2003 by devising a business and marketing plan to help them be more successful and profitable in the coming year. This is an interactive seminar so that the participants can go home with an actual physical plan from which they can guide their practice.

"Integrating Compromised Patients into Your Dental Practice"
(This seminar is presently being developed and a launch date has not been established)

7 Hours

Presenter:
Joseph T. Thompson, DMD, MAGD

 As a hospital based dentist, Dr. Thompson had the opportunity to treat medically compromised patients as a matter of course. These include patients suffering from hypertension, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, HIV, cancer with subsequent chemotherapy and the challenges of geriatrics. A large segment of the seminar will be spent on medical emergencies common to practice with detailed protocols for the entire staff established.

Fee schedules, information on all of the seminar and workshop products can be obtained prior to scheduling any seminar for your group or organization by contacting The Pinnacle Experience, Inc. office at info@pinnacleexperience.com or 800. DRS.4.TPE.