For dental practice owners · The owner's desk

Run a short morning huddle from today's counts

A ten-minute standing huddle agenda built from today's schedule counts, with one action and a suggested owner for each.

The prompt

Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and fill in each part in [BRACKETS]. Practice owners and office managers who lead the morning huddle.

I run a dental practice. Our morning huddle runs long or gets skipped. I want a short agenda I can read from, built from today's counts, so the whole team knows where the day is thin and who is on what.

What I have:
- Today's open time in the doctor and hygiene columns: [OPEN TIME TODAY]
- Today's appointments not yet confirmed: [UNCONFIRMED TODAY]
- New patients on today's schedule: [NEW PATIENTS TODAY]
- Patients today with a balance to collect at checkout: [BALANCES DUE TODAY]
- Who is working today, by role or first name: [TEAM TODAY]

What I want:
1. Write an agenda the team can get through in ten minutes, standing.
2. Open with the day in two sentences: how full it is and where the gaps are.
3. For each count, give one action and suggest who takes it, using only the people I listed.
4. Leave a blank line at the end for anything I want to add.

Rules:
- Write a draft for me to read. Do not send anything.
- Use only what I gave you. If something is missing, ask me instead of guessing.
- Never invent a number, a name or a task I did not give you.
- Work from counts only. Leave out anything about a patient's health, treatment or history. Clinical notes are for the dentist to cover from the chart, not this agenda.
- Suggest who takes each task. I make the call in the room.

Give me back:
- The agenda, short enough to read aloud in two minutes
- One action line for each count

When to use it

Before the first patient, when the team has a few minutes together and you want everyone looking at the same day.

When not to

Do not use it to go over a patient's care, medical alerts or history. The dentist covers those with the clinical team from the chart.

What to paste in

[OPEN TIME TODAY]: Open time today in the doctor and hygiene columns, as totals and start times.
[UNCONFIRMED TODAY]: How many of today's appointments are not confirmed.
[NEW PATIENTS TODAY]: How many new patients are on today's schedule.
[BALANCES DUE TODAY]: How many patients today have a balance to collect at checkout. The count only, no amounts.
[TEAM TODAY]: Who is working today, by role or first name.

Never paste

Patient names, birth dates, phone numbers or insurance IDs
The day sheet or any schedule that shows names or appointment types
Anything about a patient's health, treatment, medical alerts or history

A filled-in example

Sample. Fictional business, fictional client.

OPEN TIME TODAY: Doctor 1 hour at 2 pm; hygiene 30 minutes at 10 am and 1 hour at 3 pm
UNCONFIRMED TODAY: 4
NEW PATIENTS TODAY: 2
BALANCES DUE TODAY: 6
TEAM TODAY: The dentist, two hygienists, two assistants, Dana and Lee at the front desk, office manager in at 10

What you should get back

A ten-minute standing agenda that opens with the day in two sentences
One action for each count, with a suggested person for each
Nothing about any patient's care, which stays with the dentist
A blank line at the end for anything you want to add

What stays with you

The prompt writes a draft. You decide what happens to it, and nothing should reach a patient until you have read it. Decisions about money stay with a person every time, and so do health questions and complaints. When KeenHand builds a routine like this, every message carries the same four decisions: Automate, Approve, Revise, Reject.

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