Adding Evening Hours Without Killing Your Culture

About this episode

This episode discusses how to add evening hours to a dental practice without harming team culture or causing burnout.

Your practice feels maxed out, but you’re not ready to build more operatories or move locations. So what’s the lever most owners ignore? Hours. We talk through why adding evenings or Saturdays sparks instant fear in dental teams, and how to lead that change without breaking trust, creating burnout, or wrecking your culture. We share the shift design that makes expanded hours feel fair: stop treating the day schedule as “normal,” rotate intentionally, and start small so the team can experienc...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Paul Etchison

Topics covered

• dental practice management
• work-life balance
• team culture
• expanded hours
• leadership

Keywords

• dental hours
• team trust
• burnout
• practice growth
• scheduling

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