Business | Personnel Management

Hitting a brick wall with your dermatology patients? If your recommendations for topical therapies are going nowhere, make sure youre not inadvertently doing anything on this list.

Your veterinary practice has a toxic employee you need to deal with, and youre fearing for the worst. Not to worry! Follow these simple steps and youll be amazed at how little there is to worry about.

Theyre the same, and theyre different, and theyre getting ready to invade your veterinary hospital. Get to know them as employees and clients.

Yes. Youre helping the veterinary hospital by getting rid of the toxic team member who brings down the whole veterinary team and sucks the air out of the room.

Meaningful personal and professional growth may come at a level that seems easy as pie. Like so basic that surely the veterinary profession succeeds at it already. But no.

Hiring is hard enough without having to worry about being sued by a prospective candidate. Heres a rundown of the questions you need to refrain from asking during the interview process.

Heres how to use the famed acronym (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) to help your team members pursue professional development at individual and group levels.

When it comes to benefit plan compliance, its often the case that you dont know what you dont know.

When I took a new job as hospital administrator after 26 years at a new veterinary practice, the differences in associate pay, standards of care and geography just didnt work for me.

You get what patients are saying to you in their blood work and their body language, but are you always paying enough attention to what your veterinary team members and clients are telling you? Here are a few things to work on.

In a change this large, communication and feedback are key to keep everyone on the veterinary team feeling comfortable, says Katie Adams, CVPM.

Steve Jobs said, A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players. Heres how to build your own veterinary A team.

Hey, practice managers. When your veterinary team is throwing too many questions and problems your way in the moment, Fetch dvm360 speaker Angelina Morgan, CVPM, says youre not doing your hospital team any favors by telling them youll circle back.

With the high cost of hiring and retaining veterinary practice employees, it's time to consider the mental health benefits of employee assistance programs (EAPS) to keep your team on track for success.

Ask these questions to find out whether a veterinary practice applicant prepared for the interview, knows how to manage tough situations and has a passionate plan for the future.

Hes a great team member at the veterinary hospital, but occasional body odor could become a problem. I say dont be afraid to talk about it directly, privately and kindly.

In veterinary practices, success leads to happiness, right? Not so fast. Its happiness that breeds business success, say psychology experts. And theres research to prove it.

Ah, the hospital workplace romance. So achingly cute! So wildly entertaining! So Greys Anatomy! Now add puppies, kittens and a veterinary team. Impossibly adorable, right?

Extensive research links workplace incivility to lost productivity, lower profits, increased callouts, and an uptick in adverse and sentinel events. Its time we address incivility for the role it plays in ruining veterinary businessesand our lives.

Thats rightyou get a gold star. Managers, get together with your management or the entire team to brainstorm goals (and rewards) worthy of tooting horns, patting backs and yelling, Hip-hip-hooraySTAT!

You dont need a leadership role in your veterinary practice to act like (and be seen as) a leader. Heres how you can hone in on this special skill today.

Following the old adage an apple a day can improve mental health, too. Try this simple and inexpensive exercise to bring your team together.

National Dog Bite Prevention Week is coming up, and that means its time to think about your role in veterinary practice in keeping you and your team safe from frightened, biting dogs. Plus, resources to educate clients about preventing dog bites in the wider world.

A combination of factors have created an environment where there are more veterinary positions than doctors to fill them. Heres some insight from both perspectivesthe clinics and the candidates.

Veterinary recruiting is as intensely competitive as its ever been. Step up your game or get left in the dust.

OBrien Veterinary Group invests in the long game and the short game to fill its need for DVMs.

What can you do when the practice owners niece doesnt pull her weight? Anything?

Try out these interview tips from Ori Scislowicz to save yourself time and money.

ProSal is my veterinarian compensation method thats I developed years ago. Its one way of wrapping your head around recognizing the power of strong associate recommendations as well as proving that good business is good medicine.

This toolkit delivers team training, free client handouts, exam room education strategies and more, all designed to make it as easy as possible for veterinarians and their teams to discuss heartworm disease with clients and promote year-round prevention in dogs and cats. (With an educational grant provided by Zoetis)