Resources
Discover valuable resources for Practice Management, Human Resources, Partnership Issues, Business Structure, Contracts, and Regulatory Guidance.
Practice Management Articles & Resources
ABC Inventory
Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Veterinary Technicians?
Artificial Intelligence in Veterinary Medicine
A Wildlife Policy Within a Clinical Setting: Implementing the DOs and DON’Ts of Wildlife Handling and Treatment
Bad Customer Service – Understanding the Psychology Behind Bad Customer Service
Disaster Management for Private Practice Part II
Do You Need a Practice Manager?
Driving Excellence in Your Practice
Drug Testing: How and When
Emergency Succession Planning for a Sole Owner
Four Benefits New Employees Want Today
Fraud/Theft in Veterinary Practices: Are YOU Vulnerable?
High Performance Team Culture: Achieving What Others Alone Cannot
Holding On to Your Dream Team
How Assertive Are You?
How to Attract an Associate
How to Compete with Dr. Google
How to Prevent a Toxic Workplace
Implementing Veterinary Telemedicine
Importance of Selective Inventory Control
Issues to Negotiate in Practice
Licensed Veterinary Technicians: Undercompensated & Underpaid, Yet Absolutely Critical
Managing a Heavier Workload, Post-Layoffs: Surviving- and Even Thriving
Managing Communication Within Your Practice
Medical Errors: How NOT to Throw Your Colleagues Under the Bus
Operational Excellence
Optimizing Millennial Success
Organizational Charts – a Key to Successful Growth
Planning a Stress Free Road to Retirement
Protecting Your Practice from Toxic Teams
Responding to Client Complaints
Road Map to Starting a Mobile Practice: Unique Benefits and Challenges
Selling Your Practice? How to Transition Your Team
Social Media and Background Checks – Dangerous or Due Diligence for Your Practice?
Social Networking: How Does It Affect YOU?
Standardized Chart of Accounts Available Free to Veterinary Professionals
Successfully Managing Conflict in Your Veterinary Practice
Telemedicine: From Your Exam Room to Their Living Room
Ten Strategies to Enhance Client Satisfaction
The Complete Client Experience
The FAQs on Compounding
The Power of One
The Veterinary Nurse Initiative
Understanding Employee Motivation & How to Get it
Utilizing a Hidden Resource – Veterinary Technicians
Veterinary Nurse vs. Technician: the Pros and the Cons
What is “News to Use”?
What’s Yours is Mine, What’s Mine is Yours: Taking Pet Medications
Workplace Gossip – How to Control the Rumors
Zoonotic Implications of Fewer Veterinary Visits
HR Assistance Articles & Resources
3 HR Challenges and What You Can Do
2020: Compensation Update
Asking the Forbidden During Interviews
Bad Customer Service – Understanding the Psychology Behind Bad Customer Service
Bullying in the Workplace… Is It Really a Big Deal?
Coffee with Charlotte: Who Do You Want to Be?
Communication Breakdown, Now What?
Creating a Pathway to Partnership
Drug Testing in Veterinary Practice
Emotional Intelligence: From Surviving to Thriving
Employee Discipline: Six Key Steps to the Process
Holding On to Your Dream Team
Hot HR Topics
How #MeToo Affects You, Too
How To Discipline Your Employee
How to Prevent a Toxic Workplace
How to Respond to Third Party Harassment
Human Resource Compliance Audit – Why Is It So Critical to Complete?
Human Resources Toolkit Now Available
Importance of Veterinary Associate Contracts
Interviewing: Finding the Right Person for Your Practice
Job Descriptions – Why Do I Need to Write Them?
Mental Health Challenges in the Practice: How to Identify and Combat Them
Mysteries of Fair Compensation
Negative Attitudes: How to Identify and Deal with Negativity in the Practice
Non-Compete, Non-Solicitation, and Non-Disclosure: What Are They and Do We Need Them?
Organizational Charts
Performance Management – A Program, Not Just A Form
Pregnant Employee Safety Checklist
Preventive Medicine for Combating Communication Diseases in a Veterinary Practice Part I
Preventive Medicine for Combating Communication Diseases in a Veterinary Practice Part II
Protecting Your Practice from Toxic Teams
Recordkeeping: Personnel Files
Reviewing Your Practice’s Healthcare Benefit Plans
Rules of Engagement: The Leading Role of Women
Social Media and Background Checks – Dangerous or Due Diligence for Your Practice?
Stop Hiring for Culture Fit
Strategic Negotiation: Babies, Bosses, and Pregnancy Plans
Strategies for Preventing Workplace Harassment & Discrimination
Successful Negotiations: Strategies for Salary, Benefits, and More
Talent Acquisition – Finding and Retaining the Right Person for Your Practice
Terminating an Employee Gracefully & Legally I
Terminating an Employee Gracefully & Legally II
Understanding Employee Motivation and How to Get It
Veterinarian and Paraprofessional Compensation: Benchmarking to Gauge “How Do I Compare”?
What is a Human Resource Compliance Audit?
What is “News to Use”?
When Employees Refuse to Sign Disciplinary Notices
Workplace Bullying: Is It Really A Big Deal?
Workplace Gossip – How to Control the Rumors
Wrongful Termination and Constructive Dismissal
Counsel Articles & Resources
14 Issues Your Veterinary Practice Partnership Documents Should (Have) Address(ed)
Anatomy of a Negotiation: Talking to Corporate Consolidators
Benefits of Profit Sharing with Employees
Buy-Sell Negotiations: Ethical Disclosures or Buyer Beware
Cannabis in Veterinary Medicine
CBD Compliance: Smoke and Mirrors
Competing with Corporate Consolidator
Controlled Substances in Your Veterinary Practice
Do You Need a Letter of Intent?
Employee Discounts: Do You Know the Rules?
Employees as Pet-Sitters: Should You Be Concerned?
Establishing Values for Medical Records Sold Independently of the Practice
FDA Warning About Online Pet Pharmacies
Fraud/Theft in Veterinary Practices: Are YOU Vulnerable?
How Do You Choose a “Good” Lawyer?
How to Respond to Third Party Harassment
Internet Pharmacies: Industry & Consumer Trends – Are They Buying What You’re Selling?
In These Uncertain Economic Times, Should You Invest In Training and Career Development for Your Employees?
Issues to Negotiate in Practice
Laboratory Service Contracts: The Devil’s in the Details
Legal Aspects on the Emotional Maltreatment of Animals
Legal Risk Management in Responding to Negative Online Reviews
Letters of Intent: Why Use Them?
Malpractice Risks? Where Are They?
Medical Errors: How not to throw your colleague under the bus
Mysteries of Fair Compensation
Practice Entity – Which Organization Is Best for You and Why it Matters
Property Lease Dangers
Property Lease Dangers II
Sharing the Windfall
Signing Bonuses: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
State-Law Savvy
The FAQs on Compounding
To Pay or Not To Pay… That Is The Question!
Using IRC Section 1031 to Create and Preserve Wealth
Veterinarians’ Legal Liability for Zoonotic Diseases
Veterinarians Treating Humans. Where Is the Line?
Veterinarian & Paraprofessional Compensation
Benchmarking to Gauge ‘How do I Compare’?
Veterinary Employment Contract Legal Issues
What is “News to Use”?
Why Is Your Practice Worth More Than Mine? Summit Veterinary Advisors
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