2026 Courses and Events

Course #: 2120
Date: 11/28/2026
Time: 9:00am - 11:00am
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Kevin Henry, MA

Topic: Dental Assistants
Tuition: $65.00
Credits: 2
Recommended For:
Assistants

Description:

Every day, dental assistants face a variety of challenges in their job. How those challenges are met can affect the professional and personal lives of these valuable team members. In this fast-moving and interactive course, dental assistants learn how to identify the issues that can “get under their skin” and how to deal with them.

Updated for 2026 and beyond, we’ll explore the typical dental assistant’s four main job-related concerns (money, respect, teamwork and attitude) and identify steps to embracing one’s own potential and leadership mindset.

Learn to:

• identify on-the-job challenges that could affect performance and happiness
• understand the steps that can be taken to minimize the effects of those challenges
• explore how to have a more productive and fulfilling career as a dental assistant

Course #: 2140
Date: 11/28/2026
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Kevin Henry, MA

Topic: Practice Management and Human Relations
Tuition: $65.00
Credits: 2
Recommended For:
Dentists, Hygienists, Assistants, Students, Administrative Staff

Description:

Every day, people, whether they are employees or patients, with different personalities and motivations walk into your dental practice. Employees, with their different viewpoints, can either focus on their common denominators or the things that make them different from each other. In this look at harnessing the good and bad of what makes each of us unique, let’s talk about ways to turn differences into strengths within the practice. We will focus on different personality types, both within the practice and your patients, and how a business can be more harmonious and prosperous.

Learn:

• discovering through simple steps what your personality may be as well as others in your practice
• how to find common denominators despite having different types of personalities
• what each personality is looking to have from his or her colleagues