AAO Well-Being and Self-Care

Orthodontists are being asked to leave residency hitting the ground running. Planning and preparing for a successful career in Orthodontics starts in residency with a learning curve beyond what can be provided in residency alone. There is no need to go it alone when there are mentors/career coaches available to guide you along your career path. Choosing to have someone with knowledge and experience to help you navigate the many decisions that go into a successful future can be invaluable. Having a mentor/career coach can pay significant dividends in the big picture of your professional and personal life. This course is designed to help you decide whether a mentor and/or career coach is the right choice for you.

Burnout has become a major concern worldwide, and it is crucial to recognize and prevent it due to the significant impact it can have. The World Health Organization has acknowledged burnout as an occupational phenomenon. This session will equip participants with comprehensive knowledge on burnout and its current state and prevention strategies. By attending, participants can move from struggling to thriving and achieve a healthier life-work integration.

There is ample evidence that a person’s appearance has an effect on their sense of well-being and how they feel about themselves, and how others perceive them. As far as function is concerned, the Wellness issues are a little less well defined, but in severe situations, patients’ health can be markedly compromised. In another sense, the practice of orthodontics has been undergoing rather significant changes, and the Wellness of our profession is of great importance to all orthodontists.

Fostering an environment of psychological safety and well-being through more compassionate communication can boost performance in healthy ways and enhance your bottom line. However, with so many interactions in the run of a day, it’s reasonable to expect that some are going to be difficult. Whether conversations are with staff, patients, partners or vendors, there are emotional intelligence (also called EQ) tactics that you can deploy to position conversations to go more smoothly for all involved. In this presentation, Awarding-Winning Leadership Communication Strategist and National Soft Skills Expert, Shakira M. Brown, will deliver valuable insights to manage every encounter and achieve the best results possible from them. Learn to use your EQ to connect and manage emotions of yourself and others, while modeling the behaviors you want to encourage. Depart armed with tools to avoid headaches that come from miscommunication and misunderstandings to present yourself empathetically with confidence.

In the modern workplace, we've seen a worrying rise in the number of people quitting their jobs for reasons like being burned out, not having enough room for growth, or wanting more freedom. As leaders and people in charge, it's our job to figure out why these things keep happening and come up with ways to stop them. During this presentation, Michael will talk about the real reasons why employees leave their jobs and how to stop these problems from happening in the future. Our research will focus on how to create a supportive workplace that cares about workers' emotional and mental health, encourages honest communication, and gives them chances to grow professionally. Also, we will emphasize how important it is to find and fix problems related to stress and overwork, as well as how to give our teams the tools they need to do their jobs well. Leaders and managers can build a work culture that makes employees more engaged, productive, and loyal by using the ideas in this session. This will make it less likely that employees will leave the company. Let's make a workplace where people feel loved, supported, and motivated to do their best.

The course will walk the audience through how we become our own biggest obstacle and the path we must consider taking to move past our lifelong survival patterns and into a new way of operating. See yourself from a different perspective, what you are truly capable of, and learn strategic solutions that can be employed in all domains of life. It will be less theory and more action towards results as proven by your peers. Body, Mind, Spirit, Family, and Business.

Harmony in the workplace cannot be achieved simply by bringing together individuals, no matter how competent they are. It implies optimal communication within the team, in order to avoid throwing sand into the cogs of a well thought organization.

What does it mean for a company when an employee resigns or takes sick leave because of a bad atmosphere? Or to a lesser extent, when the workforce lacks motivation and comes in with a recurrent bad mood?

Interpersonal communication and emotion management are the two pillars of building better, healthier and more fulfilling relationships with and between every single one of your team members. Working in a stress free environment makes it much easier for anyone to perform, focus and even enjoy one’s day at work.

Learning Objectives:

• Communicate more efficiently.
• Evaluate the importance of being precise while emitting a message.
• Control overreactions when receiving a message.