If you’re not currently holding morning huddles, you will likely be amazed by the positive changes you’ll see in your practice when you implement them. As you probably know, a morning huddle is a quick meeting (about 15 minutes) with all staff each morning. The purpose is to optimize practice performance by ensuring everyone is working together in a highly coordinated way, and the team is fully prepared for the day. Additional benefits include having everyone in the team focused on advancing practice goals.

Benefits to your organization:
• Optimization of practice performance
• Progress toward production and collections goals
• Optimization of the new patient experience
• Increased staff engagement
• Reinforcement of organizational culture

Who should enroll in this course:
• Practice/office managers
• Dentists

Benefits to course participants:
• Learn strategies for holding highly effective morning huddles
• Develop morning huddle facilitation skills
• Avoid common pitfalls of morning huddles

On successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
 Describe morning huddles
 Identify the main purpose of morning huddles.
 Discuss the benefits of morning huddles
 Describe ways to motivate team members through morning huddles
 Discuss reasons why morning huddle recommendations work
 Describe what can go wrong in a morning huddle
 Describe successful morning huddle structures
 Identify possible topics for a morning huddle.
 Identify the meeting items different team members can contribute.
 Describe additional strategies for holding great morning huddles