Effective Communication: the Key to a Successful Practice with Derek Gaunt

Are you listening to understand, or are you listening to respond?

In this episode, Dino Watt interviews Derek Gaunt. Derek is a lecturer and the author of Ego, Authority, Failure©. They talk about how to communicate with your team and patients effectively in order to achieve success in your practice. They also discuss:

• What makes a good leader effective and what makes a bad leader toxic.
• The 5 levels of listening

Derek is a trainer with 29 years of law enforcement experience, 20 of which as a team member, leader and then commander of hostage negotiations teams in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. He is a hostage negotiation and incident command subject matter expert who frequently speaks at hostage negotiations and SWAT conferences across the country. Derek’s passion for interpersonal communications began when he was selected as a detective in the Criminal Investigations Section of a municipal police agency. He spent the majority of his law enforcement career in the Criminal Investigations Section as a detective, supervisor, and eventually commander of major crimes. In 1997, he took his passion for interpersonal communications to the next level, becoming a hostage negotiator. Once he became a supervisor, his passion transitioned from “doing” to teaching the concepts to others. As a member of the Black Swan Group, he is a negotiation trainer and personal coach. Derek has trained throughout the US and around the world, instructing business organizations on how to apply hostage negotiation practices and principles to their world. Derek presents seminars and in-house training programs in a variety of environments. His presentations are engaging and filled with useful techniques for understanding human behavior and navigating difficult conversations. His training has helped leaders and their organizations increase their performance by changing the way they think about communicating one person to another.

 

REFERENCE:

1. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
2. Ego, Authority, Failure by Derek Gaunt

For more information and any queries, you can contact him at:

Website: https://www.blackswanltd.com/

  

DINO’S BIO:

Dino Watt is a dynamic, highly sought after keynote speaker, private practice business advisor, best selling author, and certified body language and communication expert.

As a business relationship expert, Dino understands that people are the heart of any business. His interactive training style will bring your audience to roaring laughter and move them to tears. Whether he is training on C.O.R.E Culture, Sales and Sales Support, or Making love and business work, your audience will rave about Dino and the energy he brings to every event.

Dino has spoken for MKS, American Association of Orthodontists, PCSO, Pitts Progressive Study Group, The Shulman Study Club, Keller Williams, Sotheby’s, DentalTown, Ortho2, OrthoVoice, and many others.

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