Hiring Your Next Associate: Four Tools to Get it Right Every Time - On Demand Access*

Associate relationships in oral and maxillofacial surgery practices frequently fail – with 75 percent ending within the first year. Hiring is a complex human system that requires a strategic and thoughtful approach. This 90-minute webinar will outline key indicators that signal when a practice is ready to bring on an associate and provide steps to take – and avoid – to ensure a successful, long-term hire. Attendees will learn how to identify and attract right-fit associates who contribute to the practice’s growth, profitability and continuity. 


*Indicates that this activity is approved by AAOMS for continuing dental education credit ONLY.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

  1. Recognize key indicators that signal it is time to hire an associate. 
  2. Implement effective hiring strategies leading to a successful associate hire.   
  3. Recognize and avoid common hiring mistakes. 
  4. Incorporate methods to help ensure new associates become productive, long-term assets to the practice.


An Internet-based CDE Activity
Original Release Date: November 5, 2025
Expiration Date: November 5, 2028
Estimated time to complete this educational activity: 1.5 hour(s)
Method of participation: Self-Study

Robert Spiel

Co-Founder

Dentist Partner Pros

Bob Spiel is founder of Spiel Consulting and a founding partner in Dentist Partner Pros. Before entering the dental industry, he spent 25 years in executive leadership, including roles as a hospital and surgical center CEO and an operations director for two mid-cap firms. Over the past decade, his firms have maintained an 85 percent success rate in recruiting, hiring and retaining associate dentists. He teaches a course on leadership each fall and is the author of Flip Your Focus: Igniting People, Profits and Performance through Upside-down Leadership.

Disclosure(s): No relevant relationships to disclose. 

Continuing Education Provider Approval
The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.

ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education.

ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons designates this activity for 2.0 continuing education credit(s).

AGD - Accepted Program Provider
FAGD/MAGD Credit
11/1/22-12/31/26
Provider ID# 214680

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Pre-Quiz
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Hire Your Next Associate: Four Tools to Get it Right Every Time - On Demand Access
Open to view video.  |  90 minutes
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Certificate
1.50 CDE credits  |  Certificate available
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