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Auditing Your Company’s Mission Statement
Although no two mission statements are alike (nor should they be), it’s important to regularly audit yours—perhaps when you do your annual policy review, overall—to determine whether or not the statement is still relevant and actually being put into practice. Here is...
Rules of Engagement: The Leading Role of Women
To be successful in the workforce today, and throughout your life, you must successfully engage with people from the beginning to the end of each day. Often, it’s with people whose viewpoints don’t always match your own. And when viewpoints don’t match but you need to...
Staff Training: Teaching, Motivating and Developing Your Team
In the past, some companies offered staff training at two times only: when someone was new to the company and when a problem arose that they wanted to correct. The value of training is so much greater than orientation and problem solving, and today’s companies are...
Should You Invest in Training and Career Development for Your Employees?
Should you invest in employee training and career development while we are still waiting for the economy to turn around? Despite economic uncertainty, business savvy Practice Owners know that learning matters and is the key to survival, recovery and future growth. ...
State-Law Savvy: How to Find and Follow State Employment Laws
Employment laws have been created to protect workers from wrongdoing in the workplace, addressing issues such as the following: minimum wage requirements protection from discrimination workplace safety child labor laws workers’ compensation These laws have been...
Compensation Best Practices in 2018
It would be so simple if practice owners could open a fortune cookie for each one of their employees and find the method by which to fairly compensate them. While there are commonly accepted methods of compensation, their implementation in veterinary practices varies...
Third-Party Harassment at Your Practice: How to Respond
Originally published in Today's Veterinary Business, February 2019 Harassment creates a negative environment in the workplace, lowering morale, reducing productivity, and otherwise upsetting employees. It can take the form of unwanted flirtation, forced touching, or...
Managing Social Media Behavior at Your Veterinary Practice
Originally Published by Today's Veterinary Business, December 2018 Use of the internet, particularly social media, can be a double-edged sword, especially in the workplace. On the plus side, it can be a wonderful vehicle for marketing your practice and otherwise...
Optimizing Millennial Success
Millennials are on track to be the most educated group of people entering the workforce in history. They have been defined as “ambitious high-achievers” and, as such, it was speculated that employers would appreciate these hard workers entering the workforce. However,...
Key Factors to Consider in Appraisals and Assessing Practice Value
Written By:David McCormick, MS Simmons Mid-Atlantic & Great Lakes Stephanie McGinness, DVM Candidate, 2012 What are the key factors you should consider when assessing practice value? Profitability and appraisals are both important parts of the process and the...
14 Issues Your Veterinary Practice Partnership Documents Should (Have) Address(ed)
What happens when you die? Will your heirs receive a fair price, or any price for your investment in the practice? Will they remain locked into that investment forever? Will your heirs collect profits from the practice? What if the other partner (who is getting paid...
Practice Entity-Which Organization Is Best For You and Why it Matters
Choosing the correct structure for your veterinary practice is an important decision with consequences reaching far into the future. Selecting your practice structure is definitely not a “do it yourself” project. Substantial tax, legal and accounting expertise is...
