Master your business
Achieve your financial & lifestyle goals
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Welcome to Spot On Business Mastery
Spot On Business Mastery (SOBM) provides you, the principal dentist, with the formula for running your dental business in a way that achieves your financial and lifestyle goals without you being the driving force.
People are generally the reason why businesses fail or fail to fulfil their potential. Discover how to master your business, lead your team, attract the best people, and create an environment for them to flourish in a culture that has been created for success.
A powerful combination of theory, practical expertise and proven hands-on experience, this business mastery programme shares a well-used and successful recipe for building a self-managed practice. Pursue and fulfil your business strategy year after year – for as long as you are in business but without you having to be in practice!
The only useful strategy is one that can be implemented.
Why join the programme?
Learn how to get from where you are to where you want to be. Whether you want a different work life balance, greater financial success, to maximise your exit or to build a group of practices; your strategy must be linked to what can be implemented. Inevitably, execution is underpinned by people so the key to unlocking strategy is the mobilisation of the right people.Â
The determination of strategy isn’t usually the problem, particularly for Spot On Business Planning clients who benefit from the provision of a three-year business strategy. Executing the strategy is where the problem most often occurs.
Clear Vision
A 12-month programme mapped out and delivered in quarterly instalments that facilitates learning and promotes action.
Core Values
A methodology for determining the foundational DNA of your business and roadmap to success that are your core values.
Proven Strategies
A streamlined business management system that fosters peer collaboration and builds high-performing, self-managed teams.
The missing magic formula: theory + practice = success
A unique and unrivalled team
Andy McDougallÂ
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With over 40 years of experience interpreting and using numbers to transform business performance, Andy McDougall ventured into the dental sector over a decade ago, recognising a gap in business know-how among practice owners. He founded Spot On Business Planning (SOBP) with a mission to transform underperforming practices and take well-performing practices to new levels.
He has successfully built and nurtured thriving businesses, navigating every permutation of business structure imaginable, from missed opportunities to private practices, specialists, sole traders and partnerships.
Mark Skimming
BDS MSc (Restorative) MFGDP (UK) Dip Rest Dent RCS (Eng)
Mark is a former clinical dentist who has developed his own self-managed group of practices with the goal of building a self-growing business. At the core of Mark's success is the meticulously refined methodology that Spot On Business Mastery will teach, initially developed in his first practice and subsequently rolled out across 13 additional practices within his group.
Mark has proven practically the engine works for building teams, managing associates, and motivating 14 organisations. The ongoing growth and management of his group of practices is steeped in and resulting from this self-sustaining profitable model.
How far are you from a self-managed practice?
Take our test.
- Is practice ownership a massive cause for stress?
- Do you face many challenges?
- Are things ok but there is scope for improvement?Â
- Are you close to being self-managed?
