Recognition for Dentsply Sirona and its talent
Four internationally renowned awards for Dentsply Sirona honor a successful year of refocusing and setting new benchmarks. The awards recognize the commitment of Dentsply Sirona and its employees to constantly push further innovations and as an employer of choice.
SureSmile Education Team wins AXIS Award in Learning Technology
The Association for Talent Development Dallas honored the SureSmile Education Team with the AXIS Award in Learning Technology for an innovative learning management application. A sophisticated, state-ofthe- art orthodontics solution such as Dentsply Sirona’s SureSmile Aligner demands an equally innovative training program to give users the best possible support. To accomplish this, the SureSmile Education Team utilizes the learning management application “SureSmileU.” Based on Learner Mobile, a clever alternative to traditional learning management systems adapted for both mobile and desktop systems, the learning application connects users to international communities of experts and in-house specialists. This provides the ability to collaborate, share ideas and expertise and ultimately advance the ways in which the product is used.
SureSmileU adapts to each individual user by utilizing Artificial Intelligence. In this way it feels familiar, much like a social media platform in how particular information is highlighted and trends on the user’s learning profile. Administrators can promote specific content or necessary software updates. ATD presented the SureSmile Education Team with the award at their 5th annual gala event in December 2019. ATD Dallas is one of the chapters of the international ATD professional association. The coveted AXIS Awards are given in several different categories for outstanding achievement in areas such as Learning Technology, Leadership Development, and Talent Mobility among others.
“Our goal is to enable doctors who use our products to perform at their best in very complex work environments with demanding and ever-changing products. The Learner Mobile application does double-duty as a training tool for users and a facilitator for Dentsply Sirona salespeople,” explained Amanda Ballard, Education Program Manager. “This award really validates the hard work of our team and demonstrates the resources that the Company is willing to invest in the educational tools that accompany our products.”
Red Dot Award
Rather than requiring patients to schedule multiple visits to the dental office, CEREC enables dentists to prepare, design and produce restorations in just a single visit. The design of the software combines photorealistic 3D renderings of jaws and teeth with a user-friendly interface and clear navigation structure. With its touchscreen, the software is intuitive to use, enabling dentists to design high-quality, esthetic crowns in just five clicks, produce them in one of the CEREC milling units, and insert them in the same session.
The process is great for patients and represents single-visit dentistry at its best. In November, the CEREC team in Germany along with their partners at Ergosign won a Red Dot Award for Brands and Communication Design for the redesigned user interface of the CEREC software. Roughly 1,400 international guests came together to celebrate the award winners at the Red Dot Gala on November 1st in the Konzerthaus Berlin in Germany.
The Red Dot Award is a major design competition and the CEREC team is proud of the result of their „Rebrush CEREC Software“ project. Dentsply Sirona’s CEREC products have won a number Red Dot Awards over the years. This year, the jury, comprised of 24 international experts in design and branding, especially liked the intuitive and visually appealing user interface as well as the thoughtful automation of the CEREC software.
German Design Award
The sophisticated combination of aesthetics and functionality of SmartLite Pro won over the jury of the German Design Award 2020. SmartLite Pro, an innovation in the field of light curing, was launched by Dentsply Sirona in March 2019. “The polymerization unit combines elegant design with leading clinical performance,” underlined Michael Kleinhaus, Senior Global Brand Manager.
The statement of the jury noted that, “The modular polymerisation lamp with its striking pen-style design is impressive in form and function – right down to the last detail. The striking design language combines ergonomics with modern, unadorned elegance, with the use of matt metal for the handle intensifying the feeling of high quality.”
SmartLite Pro can be operated using a single button. Four high-performance LEDs ensure homogeneous light distribution over the entire ten-millimeter light emission window, which means that even fillings with a large horizontal extension can be completely covered. The additional transillumination attachment makes cavities or fractures visible with a focused white light. It can also be used to illuminate endodontic access cavities. The stainless steel and anodized aluminum housing ensures strength and durability.
Although the award winners were announced in 2019, the ceremony took place on February 7, 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany.
Dentsply Sirona named Top Employer in China for 2020
The internationally known Top Employers Institute held its Top Employers China Certification Dinner on December 2, 2019. Dentsply Sirona China joined a select group of companies in receiving the honor of being named a “Top Employer China 2020.” This is the fifth time that Dentsply Sirona has been chosen. For 2020, 99 companies across China are included on the list. The Top Employers Institute has certified over 1,500 organisations in 118 countries and regions throughout its 25-year history. In order to certify a company as a “Top Employer,” the organization surveys companies for their talent strategies, workforce planning, talent acquisition and on-boarding processes, learning and development, leadership development, career and succession management, performance management, compensation and benefits, and organizational culture.
“This award demonstrates our continued dedication to employees and to their development in order to bring out the best in our people. This in turn enables us to excel both as individuals and as a team and to accomplish our goals as a company,” said Lisa Yankie, Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer and Communications.
The team in China is very proud to have achieved this certification for the fifth time. “We are always striving to create an even better working environment for our colleagues. Our overall focus on engagement is paying off,” noted Niels Plate, General Manager China. Dentsply Sirona is regularly recognized as a great place to work by the Top Employers institute. For 2019, they named Dentsply Sirona as a “Top Employer Germany Engineers” and “Top Employer Switzerland” for the seventh time. The Company also made Forbes Magazine’s list of “America‘s Best Midsize Employers 2019.”