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Dedication
We would like to dedicate this book to all the hard working dental professionals who have successfully completed their post graduate qualifications in coaching and mentoring with Dental Coaching Academy. Their commitment to their profession, their own learning and development, and to coaching and mentoring has been an inspiration to us both, thank you.
About the Authors
Janine Brooks MBE, DMed Eth, MSc, FFGDP(UK), MCDH, DDPH(RCS), BDS, FAcadMEd, is CEO of Dentalia Coaching and Training Consultancy; Director of the Dental Coaching Academy; Co‐founder of Dental Mentors UK; a private Coach and Mentor (Remediation, Career and Personal Development), Educational Associate and Registration Assessment Panelist for the General Dental Council; Trustee of the Dentists' Health Support Trust; Coach for the Professional Support Unit, Thames Valley; Expert Witness; Lead Clinical Tutor at the University of Bristol (BUOLD programme) and Honorary Fellow, Society of British Dental Nurses.
Janine enjoys a portfolio career working across a number of roles and organisations. Themes running through her work include education, mentoring and coaching. She launched my own coaching and training consultancy, Dentalia, in July 2011, providing coaching and mentoring to dental professionals and a broad range of education and training topics. She writes extensively and has published several books, plus a number of articles and papers over the years.
Helen and Janine along with their partner Bob launched a Post Graduate Certificate and a Post Graduate Award in Leadership Coaching and Mentoring in 2016. Over 60 dental professionals have successfully completed their qualifications to date.
Janine qualified from University of Birmingham dental school in 1983 and spent 19 years working as a Community Dentist in Herefordshire and Warwickshire before taking on national roles. Her main interests lie in bio ethics, professionalism, leadership in dentistry and mentoring.
Helen Caton‐Hughes, MA, DipM, PCC, is an author, coach and founder of the Forton Group of companies. She combines her interest in health and wellbeing with leadership development and coaching. Her books include ‘The Fertility Plan’ and ‘No Cape Required: empowering abundant leadership’ (co‐written with Bob Hughes).
Independent quality standards and a clear evidence base matter to her and Helen is an assessor for the International Coach Federation and a coach supervisor and mentor.
As a leadership, career and business coach, Helen works across the spectrum of health management, business development and marketing, with leaders from the private, public and humanitarian sectors and with their teams. Her clients include the UN, financial services and the UK National Health Service and leaders in fast growing technology companies, humanitarian organisations and logistics.
As a pioneer in digital business, Helen has built her own organisation based on flexible working patterns, digital technologies and self‐paced remote learning. Equally at home in the classroom, Helen enjoys encouraging her students to discover their strengths, build their confidence and grow their careers as a result.
Helen's research includes youth volunteering, care home quality and the impacts of coaching on organisations. It's important to her that research findings get turned into actionable steps and, as a result, she designs training courses, including Post‐Graduate programmes in leadership, coaching and mentoring, team‐coaching and training in coach‐mentoring and supervision. Helen also led the team that achieved the first International Coach Federation accredited programme to focus on leadership coaching.
Strongly committed to diversity, Helen works internationally, and inspired the development of abundant leadership, building on peoples' diverse strengths and talents, as well as their culture and values.
List of Contributors
Dr. Barkat Ahmed BDS, CerMedEd, PGCert Dent Imp, Diploma (Coaching and Mentoring) Oxford, UK
Mrs. Shilpa Chitnis BDS, PGCert Leadership Coaching and Mentoring GDP Practice Principal Coach Mentor Andover, UK
Ms. Jane Davies‐Slowik MBE BDS‐ BDS MCDH DDPHRCS, PGCert Leadership Coaching and Mentoring Birmingham, UK
Dr. Stephen Denny BDS, LDSRCS, PG Cert Dental Education, PGCert Leadership Coaching and Mentoring Educational Supervisor; Honorary Tutor, Southend Outreac; Clinical Educator University of Essex Southend, UK
Dr. Ahmad El‐Toudmeri Dental Surgeon, BDS Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, UK
Dr. Frederick Fernando Dental Surgeon BDS PG Cert CMI Saffron Walden, Essex, UK
Dr. Keith George B.D.S D.P.DS, PGCert Leadership Coaching and Mentoring Burford, UK
Mrs. Sarah Jackson BDS, PGCert Leadership Coaching and Mentoring Dental Surgeon Poole, Dorset, UK
Mr. Sumair Khan BDS (Lon) MFDS RCPS (Glas) MSc (Implant Dent) Diploma (Rest Dent) PGCert (Medical & Dent Ed) PGCert (Leadership Coaching & Mentoring) Training Programme Director ‐ Oxford Dental Foundation Training Scheme Health Education England Thames Valley & Wessex Course Director ‐ Postgraduate Diploma in Implant Dentistry Smile Dental Academy Oxfordshire, UK
Dr. Claudia Peace BDS, PGCert Leadership Coaching and Mentoring Dental Surgeon Winchester, UK
Dr. Ewa Rozwadowska BDS, PGCert Leadership Coaching and Mentoring Dental Surgeon Cheltenham UK
Dr. Catherine Rutland BDS MA, BChD, IRMCert, CMI, BDS, PGCert Leadership Coaching and Mentoring Clinical Director, Simplyhealth and Denplan Winchester, UK
Dr. Jin J. Vaghela BDS (Lond) MFDS RCSEd (Edin) (London) MJDF RCS (Eng) PG Cert (Dental Education) FHEA PG Cert Leadership, Mentoring & Coaching MSc Restorative Dental Practice (Eastman) DFT Educational Supervisor Health Education East of England; Visiting Lecturer Eastman Dental Institute; Visiting Lecturer Royal College of Surgeons; Clinical Director Smile Clinic Group; Clinical Director Smile Dental Academy, London, UK
Foreword
When asked by the authors whether I would write a foreword to this book I felt hugely privileged. Having been trained in mentoring and coaching by them several years ago, their knowledge and passion for mentoring and coaching in dentistry should be written down to aid those of us who are always still learning.
The power of mentoring and coaching is still not fully used in dentistry. As I progress further though my career I see more and more the impact of what it can achieve. Whether in a formal setting, or supportive conversations within teams, it can really alter how individuals and teams progress and perform, ultimately leading to improved patient care.
This book and the methods it suggests are grounded in solid theory, and techniques and methods well tested and proven. The case studies within it show how mentoring and coaching can work in the real and often challenging world of dentistry.
It can be so easy to focus on clinical improvement within our development, yet there are so many other areas of our professional lives in which we can improve and work on. This can often get missed, yet a good mentor or coach will draw this out, ultimately leading to a more rounded and balanced career and, with that, a better work