Leadership: Blogs

"Leadership is action, not position." This powerful quote from broadcasting guru, Donald McGannon, illustrates a new way of viewing the art and science of leadership. When it stems from the realm of positive influence rather than a hierarchical title, leadership creates new pathways to excellence. We can all choose to be leaders. This room provides the skills, concepts and specific steps to help you step into your leadership role.

Blogs

Managing Grief in the Workplace

Self-care is important to a profession that involves long hours, hard work, and unhappy endings, and this is never truer than during a traumatic event in the practice. Veterinary medicine has a lot...

What Keeps You Up at Night?

“What keeps you up at night?” is almost a universal question. When used in a business context, once you get past the glib responses from employees, colleagues, or clients (ie, crying...

Is Your Door Really Open to Staff?

In the spirit of creating a healthy practice, communication is the keystone; it is imperative to the process. The practice has to set up policies and encourage open communication throughout the...

Mentoring is a Two-Way Street

The mentoring process is much more than a senior member helping a junior member. It is a relationship between colleagues in which the experienced member lends his or her expertise to the proté...

Providing Team-Building Activities for Strong Social Relationships

Mention the words “team-building activity” to any group of veterinary professionals, and you’ll hear nothing but moans and groans from the team. A few may even try to sneak out the...

Is Your Team Burning Out?

No matter whom you are or what practice you work in, it always seems there much more work to be done than can possibly be accomplished. We tire after days and weeks of carrying a heavy workload, and...

Go Ahead, Blow Your Horn

Humility May Be a Virtue, But It Won't Help You Promote Your Practice Congratulations…you’ve earned it, been awarded it, achieved it! And whatever “it” is—an award, a...

Incentivizing Critical Thinking

One of the summer jobs I held to fund my college education was as a frame welder and sub-floor builder at a mobile home plant. My crew was composed of jail birds that got out on 8-hour work release...

Do You Provide Continuing Education for Your Team?

Veterinary medicine is constantly changing as new medications are discovered, tools are created, protocols are proven, and recommendations are published. As part of the medical support staff,...

Creating a Healthy and Dynamic Workplace

So we’ve just finished talking about factors that cause stress and burnout in our workplace, the veterinary practice. These are issues that we can look at personally, to help to minimize the...