So you’ve hired a new dental employee, now what?
Job training has room for creativity but there are a few general suggestions to follow. They will optimize the knowledge and understanding your employee takes away from training.
If you’re a dental employer looking for tips on how to train your new dental employee, keep reading below.
Avoid trying to teach your new dental employee everything on the same day. A dental practice training schedule is a great tool that can be used for onboarding all employees. It will take some time to develop in the beginning but in the long run, will save your practice time.
Create an itinerary for each day of training. Review it on day one with your new employee. Both the dental group and new hire will know what to expect of training and it will make sure no skill or policy is forgotten.
The training schedule will also make it easier for the trainer to know how much time to allot each day to training.
In the dental industry, there are some required training procedures to make your new hire aware of. The best way to assimilate a new dental employee into your dental office culture is to let them shadow a current team member.
Through shadowing, new hires will familiarize themselves with the technical procedures of the office. They will also understand the office culture and get to know their fellow colleagues.
Make sure new hires get comfortable enough to complete tasks themselves before they are finished with shadow training. The goal of shadow training is to help them become so confident in the daily tasks of the operation, that they could complete the work without any supervision.
A mistake many employers make is ignoring opportunities to revise their training schedule. Get feedback from your new dental hire. Maybe some areas were already covered in school and were time wasted during training.
Possibly, some areas weren’t explained well enough? Communicate with your new hire well beyond the training days to see if there is anything that needs to be covered more in-depth.
This will enable you to improve the foundation of your dental employment, your training schedule, and ensure future hires have an even better onboarding experience. For example, new and current employees would need a special COVID-19 oral health training protocol.
In summary, keep your training organized, teaching your new dental employee one task at a time. Develop a master training schedule filled with practice policies, daily training itineraries, and dental practice regulations.
Know that the more your employee practices a skill, the more accustomed they will become to it. Let employees shadow for many days or weeks before they are unsupervised. Mistakes in the dental industry can be dangerous.
Lastly, keep up with training. The dental industry is constantly innovating, which means your practice should be too. Introducing new technologies means that new and current employees will need training in administering those treatments.
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