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When You Lead, People Notice

Recently, I had an opportunity to speak with veterinary professionals from across the country at a conference. At this event, there were also several attendees who were recognized for various achievements. There was one individual, it seemed, who hardly had…

Use great questions to help your team find answers

Use Great Questions to Help Your Veterinary Team Find The Right Answers

Culture, Growth, Leadership

I watch a lot of practice owners, managers, and veterinarians work really hard to show up with all the answers. It’s a natural impulse for a leader to want to solve all of the problems, know everything, and help people…

Leading an Important Person in Your Veterinary Practice – Yourself

Leadership, Leadership Development, Self-Leadership

I often get asked about what makes a great leader. I used to try and cover all the aspects of the complex and dynamic art of leadership. Now, I often just answer with a simple phrase: they lead themselves first.…

What Good Looks Like: Training in Your Veterinary Practice

Training

Training people for your veterinary practice is hard. If you’re a practice manager, owner, or someone in charge of training at your hospital, you already know this. New staff members bring knowledge and life experiences to your team, but it’s…

6 Ways to Create an Engaging First Day at Your Veterinary Practice

Employee Engagement, Recruiting & Hiring

Starting at a new veterinary practice can be a challenge. As a new employee, there are so many questions and unknowns. These can add extra stress to the process of starting a new job. Great leaders do whatever they can…

What Your Calendar Says About Your Leadership

Leadership, Leadership Development

One of the best parts of my job is being able to work with veterinary practice leaders as a coach to help them achieve more of their goals, chart their career course, and build stronger, more accountable teams around them. …

Make today great in your veterinary practice

You’ve Never Seen This Day Before in your Veterinary Practice

Goals, Growth, Leadership

As I was getting on the shuttle bus to head to the rental car lot from the airport, I must admit I didn’t pay much attention to the driver. I greeted him and asked how he was, but I was…

This Year, Change How You Think

Change

It’s the time of year when most of us decide to do some things differently. There’s something powerful about a new year as we assess our lives, our business, and even our relationships with others. The prospect of a new…

Three Ways to Become More Successful this Year

Growth, Path to Success, Self-Leadership

We’ve all seen the statistics on New Year’s Resolutions. About 45% of people make a promise to themselves for how they will do things differently in the coming year. Then, only 8% of people consider themselves successful at keeping their…

Resolutions Really Can Make It Past January

Leadership Development, Path to Success, Self-Leadership

It’s that time of year when so many of us are trying to keep the New Year’s resolutions we made. Most of us who make them have already broken those promises. And if you believe the research, those of us…

Management vs. Leadership – Or is it?

Leadership

It’s hard to work in the area of developing leaders without addressing the issue of management versus leadership. Much debate has been had about what each of these words means and which one is more important. Recently, I’ve even heard…

4 Reasons Why You Need a Coach

Coaching

Whether you are a new manager or a seasoned leader, a good coach can take you from where you are today, to where you want to be tomorrow. Coaching can help move anyone closer to their full potential. Despite the…