VPN Plus+ ExclusiveHow to Keep Your Lifestyle After Your Practice's SaleDecember 22, 2022has worked within the veterinary community since 2014. He and his team at Florida Veterinary Advisors help associates, practice owners, and their teams find the next In this session: Thomas Seeko, CExP, FINRA Series 7 and 66, addresses the impacts of just trying to live only on the practice sale proceeds, and the interest-only retirement plan. He will also cover how your income relies on the market, as well as a strategy to find a better balance in how you will save now and spend money in retirement.
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VPN Plus+ ExclusiveMemorializing a Pet InfographicDecember 19, 2022As veterinary professionals and pet owners, we are all too familiar with the void left behind when a beloved pet passes away. This infographic gives pet parents some ideas of different ways to memorialize a pet that has crossed over the Rainbow Bridge. Some of these could also be used as ideas for your practice to gift to long-term clients you have a special bond with
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveUnions in Veterinary MedicineDecember 15, 2022This session: Unions are much in the news these days with high-profile campaigns at Amazon and Starbucks. Support for organizing and unions is at an all-time high. In this presentation, Liz Hughston, RVT, CVT, LVT, LVMT, VTS (SAIM)(ECC), president of the National Veterinary Professionals Union – a labor union dedicated to organizing in the veterinary profession – talks about the factors that lead many veterinary workers to want to organize, and the process of unionizing. She also discusses the rise of corporations in veterinary medicine and how that has contributed to workers’ need for unions.
VPN Plus+ ExclusivePreparing to launch your brand onlineDecember 8, 2022Whether you have been in business for years or are planning on debuting your new brand in 2023, there are steps you can take to prepare your brand for its online launch. Each brand is unique. Increasing awareness, reaching existing or new clients, and aligning with your business’s key performance indicators (KPIs) are all incentives for launching or relaunching your brand’s online presence.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveQuestions about anti-nerve growth factor drugsDecember 1, 2022When the guidelines first showed up, most veterinarians couldn’t even access antiNGF mAB drugs. The feline version, frunevetmab, received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval on January 13, 2022, but it remained unavailable to most veterinarians well into the summer. We still do not know when, or if, the canine version will receive a green light from the FDA.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveGaslighting: A Guide for Burning Your Practice Culture to the GroundNovember 30, 2022This session will discuss if gaslighting is happening within your practice and setting you and your team up for failure. It will talk about how different gaslighting behaviors can create toxicity in the workplace. No matter how much you pay your team members, they won’t stick around with a toxic culture. Our teams are more aware than ever that they are more willing to take a cut in pay or have no pay at all than work in a toxic environment. Listen as Rhonda dives into specific examples of gaslighting in the practice that we are so used to seeing that we don’t even realize it is gaslighting.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveA primer on 19 common chicken diseases and treatmentsNovember 24, 2022With poultry becoming popular backyard pets, you may have clients also ask you about their chickens, when they come in with their dog or cat. While clinics may not be seeing poultry as their patients, it is not a bad idea to be at least familiar with the basics of poultry medicine and be able to provide some guidance about chickens or other poultry.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveQuality of Life Assessment InfographicNovember 17, 2022We are all familiar with some clients who have a really difficult time accepting when it is time to say goodbye. That's why we created this marketing piece for you to use freely in your clinics to provide clients with thought-starting questions to help them determine if they should have that conversation with you, especially at this time of year when ill pets often seem to decide it is time for the Rainbow Bridge.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveWellness in the WorkplaceNovember 17, 2022This session will tell Dr. Becky Krull's story of burnout to help support and educate technicians on their well-being in the workplace. All team members can benefit from how she healed her way back to be the doctor, wife, mom, and leader she is today. She will focus on what worked for her and how she has implemented these tools into her daily life, as well as her business.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveThe clash of commerce and cultureNovember 10, 2022By Patty Khuly, VMD, MBAThe culture of veterinary medicine has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. While the dedication displayed by veterinary school applicants seeking entry to programs seems not to have diminished, the emerging work ethos is arguably less enthusiastic than it once was. This shift in mentality, should you subscribe to this assessment, is often explained in terms of the dueling axioms describing our younger workforce’s approach to work-life balance: “working to live” rather than “living to work.”
