I currently work as an Executive Assistant and Human Resources Manager at a dental office Northern Nevada. It is a family owned practice and consists of sixty employees, including nine dentists and twelve hygienists. The practice was started by our owners’ father and then was bought in the early 2000s by our current owners, his sons. The objective of our practice is to treat patients with the highest level of care while using state of the art technology to improve the level of dentistry. Our office not only performs general dentistry, but we also have onsite specialties such as pediatric dentistry and orthodontia as well as an on-site lab where all our crowns and dentures are made by professionals who have over forty years of experience
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For the purposes of this paper I will be evaluating the younger brother, whom I will call Dr. T. The main leadership practice that he possesses is being a servant leader (Daft, 2014, Chapter 15). His goals are to serve his patients by using his vast experience and education and to serve his leaders and team, so they are able to fulfill their goals as well as the goals of the organization. He is great at motivating his leaders to learn their larger purpose in life and in the practice and achieve the mission of the organization. Dr. T regularly gives away gifts, whether monetary gifts or public recognition to those who go above and beyond in their work. He believes in his leaders and works hard to make sure that he empowers them to become independent and grow. Dr. T also embodies a participative leadership role in that his leadership team trusts that he will be open to new processes. The team understands that they can bring him broken processes and their ideas to improve or fix them that they feel will be beneficial to the practice. He also uses a transformational leader style that is shown through his ability to bring about changes to the office and act as a role model to the team. He has a vision to better the organization and promote the family-focused culture of the
For the purposes of this paper I will be evaluating the younger brother, whom I will call Dr. T. The main leadership practice that he possesses is being a servant leader (Daft, 2014, Chapter 15). His goals are to serve his patients by using his vast experience and education and to serve his leaders and team, so they are able to fulfill their goals as well as the goals of the organization. He is great at motivating his leaders to learn their larger purpose in life and in the practice and achieve the mission of the organization. Dr. T regularly gives away gifts, whether monetary gifts or public recognition to those who go above and beyond in their work. He believes in his leaders and works hard to make sure that he empowers them to become independent and grow. Dr. T also embodies a participative leadership role in that his leadership team trusts that he will be open to new processes. The team understands that they can bring him broken processes and their ideas to improve or fix them that they feel will be beneficial to the practice. He also uses a transformational leader style that is shown through his ability to bring about changes to the office and act as a role model to the team. He has a vision to better the organization and promote the family-focused culture of the