A Successful Career, A Balanced Life

Shawn G. McVey, MA, MSW

Grow Your People, Grow Your Life

Part of managing well is to understand how to use the thinking power around you to achieve goals through them. Typically any time spent managing the veterinary hospital is reactionary rather than responsive. This lecture will help participants harness the mental capacity around them to move agendas forward. The result should be working smarter, not harder.

Toxic Person, Toxic Work

The inability to manage work life balance results in not only toxic people, but toxic work environments. This lecture examines the symptoms of mismanaged stress and looks at the personality characteristics that lead to doctors becoming “alpha” employees. There is a specific methodology that allows for alphas to make positive contributions to the work place without creating the stress they are famous for.

Work Smarter, Not Harder

Is your practice a learning organization? Do you know what qualities must be exhibited in practice to assure that you are a nimble, learning practice? Our goal is to capture the fees available to us by getting better at operations, instead of having to raise fees to cover incompetence.

Surviving the Management Learning Curve

Did you know that resistance to managerial intervention is normal and predictable? Were you aware that good management is often started with employees feeling frustrated at the need to change? Learn how to diagnose and manage resistance rather than wish it away. Don’t let management stress keep you from focusing on goals and getting things done.

Blind to Self, Known to Others: Understanding Your Impact on Others
(Johari Window)

We have changed from a need to a want service and in order for us to continue to meet clients expectations and maintain a work life balance, we have to get better at charging for our time and personal interaction. The Johari Window is a “concept” that can help crystallize our understanding of self which will translate to better communication with the client.

Mountains, Molehills and Veterinary Medicine

Everybody wants to come to the veterinarian but not everyone can afford it. This seems to be our biggest problem yet, we treat the conversation of price like it is something to be avoided. This lecture will focus on how to directly deal with life problems in the veterinary practice and “normalize” crisis management.