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ONLINE EVENT: Managing challenging patients

Event Type
BDA TRAINING
Event Subject
Personal development
Topics
Development Outcomes (A, D)
Topic Groups (Personal Development)
Date
Friday 14 July 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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ONLINE EVENT:

Managing challenging patients and defusing difficult situations

Friday 14 July 2023  |  ONLINE

09:00 - 13:00

Skillful handling of complaints is essential to modern business management as reputation and customer goodwill are paramount. If handled properly, a complaint can enhance relations and turn a potentially lost customer into a satisfied patient. This interactive workshop is packed with practical tips to help you and your team put patients at ease, build rapport, defuse difficult situations and prevent complaints escalating.


Aim

To help dentists and their teams put patients at ease, build rapport, defuse difficult situations and prevent complaints escalating.


Learning objectives

  • Create a positive first impression to put patients at ease
  • Recognise the neurology behind anxious patients (snowball effect, distortion, the amygdala)
  • Understand the positive drivers behind difficult behaviours
  • Aim for adult-to-adult communication and maintain rapport
  • Defuse difficult situations with acknowledgement and empathy.


​Programme

​09:00
​Introduction

First impressions and complaints

Anxious or nervous patients

Analyse what makes people challenging and the Iceberg Principle

Recognise the positive driver behind the difficult behaviour

​10:15
​Break
​10:30
Aim for adult-to-adult communication and avoid game-playing

Techniques for maintaining rapport and defusing difficult situations
​11:15
​Break
​12:00
Coaching exercise – solve a difficult real-life situation with confidence
(small breakout rooms)
​12:45
Recap and questions
​13:00
​End

Speaker

Heather Dallas
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.

Course format

This interactive course will take place on Zoom using breakout rooms, group discussion and the chat function. 

*Limited class size to enhance interaction*

CPD

Development Outcomes - A and D
3 1/2  hours 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 dentist
​£125
​Dental care professional
​£95

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Cancellations

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.

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