A mistake I commonly see practice owners make when hiring is hiring to fill a gap.

It makes sense to hire for the now when you have urgent staffing needs due to a key member of staff leaving, or beca...

Self-reflection is important to help you grow and change, increase your self-awareness, and continually improve your leadership mindset and abilities. Here are 5 questions I recommend veterinary leade...

A leadership role comes with physical responsibilities, but also a mental load that is not often talked about. Sometimes there can be so much information in your brain, so much to remember, to do, bal...

Here are 3 common mistakes I see veterinary leaders make when interviewing:

1. Not preparing enough.

If you don’t prepare for an interview, very simply the person sat in front of you will pick up...

When preparing to interview a prospective candidate, keep it simple and follow my P.E.C method: Preparation. Experience. Curiosity. 

P = PREPARATION

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity ge...

There is a misunderstanding about what a natural leader is, and it depends on who you ask. Typically, we think of someone who people naturally gravitate towards due to their outgoing, dynamic, and cha...

One part of being a leader that almost never feels comfortable is having difficult conversations. In fact, there’s only one thing worse than having a difficult conversation, and that’s avoiding one!

For a long time it has been believed that rewarding hard work gets people to put in more effort, and that people will not do the work that is demanded of them if there is no threat to some form of sec...

Stepping into a leadership role is an exciting moment in a vet or nurse’s career, but it doesn’t come without its challenges, including now managing people who used to be your peers.

Taking the leap ...

Recruitment in the veterinary profession is tough right now. So much so, that I’ve heard practices joke that their ideal candidate is “a vet with a pulse”.

Eek!

One of the most expensive mistakes yo...