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Ever wondered why some meetings feel like a waste of time while others drive real results?

Discover the secrets to conducting powerful and efficient veterinary clinic meetings that will transform your practice's productivity.

This episode of the Vet Staff Podcast reveals strategies to streamline your meetings with clear agendas, proper scheduling, and ensuring the right team members are present and prepared.

Learn how skilled facilitation can navigate diverse personality dynamics and keep discussions focused on truly important topics, avoiding the common pitfall of "bike shedding."

We'll share proven techniques to generate active participation and accountability, transforming your meetings from dreaded obligations into valuable tools for enhanced communication and collaboration.

By prioritising agenda items and engaging all attendees, you'll ensure meaningful outcomes and a culture of accountability that extends beyond the meeting room.

Whether you're a clinic manager or a team member, these insights will help you optimize your meetings and boost overall efficiency in your veterinary practice. Don't miss this chance to revolutionize your meeting practices and elevate your clinic's performance.

About DISC-Flow®
DISC is a research-backed and science-based personality profiling tool used to understand our behaviours, communication styles, and work preferences. It’s about understanding what makes you – and the people you work with – tick.

Julie South is a DISC Flow® Certified Trainer, who describes DISC-Flow® profiling as being like having a cheat sheet to better understand yourself and other people. When you know this, it helps you play to your personality strengths, work better in teams, and communicate better.

If you’re keen to find out what your personal DISC type is, what type of leader you are, or what your clinic’s team composition looks like, then get in touch with Julie to find out what's involved.

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Is your clinic still struggling with the post-pandemic workforce transformation?

Discover how to turn these challenges into opportunities by understanding the concept of psychological safety and its profound impact on new hires and annual performance reviews.

Join Julie South, Certified DISC Trainer and Resilience Coach, as she introduces the juniority benefit, the swoosh pattern of psychological safety levels over time, and the peak-end rule cognitive bias.

This episode is packed with insights on how these elements can shape your onboarding processes and yearly evaluations, ultimately enhancing your clinic’s performance and morale.

Drawing parallels between the veterinary and airline industries, Julie explores how early retirements of experienced mentors have created significant training gaps.

Julie shares recent studies and expert insights on building a psychologically safe environment that promotes learning, collaboration, and peak performance.

Whether you're a practice owner, manager, or new team member, this episode offers actionable strategies for creating a supportive and thriving workplace, ensuring your team is equipped to handle the complexities of their roles with confidence.

Tune in to transform your clinic’s dynamics and elevate your team’s potential.

About DISC-Flow®
DISC is a research-backed and science-based personality profiling tool used to understand our behaviours, communication styles, and work preferences. It’s about understanding what makes you – and the people you work with – tick.

Julie South is a DISC Flow® Certified Trainer, who describes DISC-Flow® profiling as being like having a cheat sheet to better understand yourself and other people. When you know this, it helps you play to your personality strengths, work better in teams, and communicate better.

If you’re keen to find out what your personal DISC type is, what type of leader you are, or what your clinic’s team composition looks like, then get in touch with Julie to find out what's involved.

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This is what VetStaff is really good at so if you'd like to stretch your recruitment dollar, please get in touch with Julie because this is something VetStaff can help you with.

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Join Julie South, a Certified DISC Trainer and Resilience Coach, as she delves into the art of reaching consensus within teams.

Julie emphasises the importance of creating a safe space for open conversations, setting clear objectives, and encouraging diverse perspectives to ensure everyone feels heard and valued.

She provides practical strategies and best practice questions to help teams navigate through reaching consensus effectively.

By focusing on assumptions rather than beliefs, Julie guides listeners on how to keep discussions productive and inclusive.

Understanding different communication styles and personality types is also highlighted to overcome resistance to consensus.

Tune in to learn how to build team cohesion and make better decisions through consensus-building techniques.

Key Takeaways:

1. Creating a safe space for open conversations is crucial for reaching consensus within teams.
2. Setting clear objectives and encouraging diverse perspectives lead to more innovative decision-making processes.
3. Focusing on assumptions rather than beliefs helps in keeping discussions productive and inclusive.

Questions Answered:

1. What are the strategies for reaching consensus within a team?
2. How can diverse perspectives contribute to better decision-making?
3. What are the best practice questions to ask to keep consensus reaching on track?
4. How can different personality types resist reaching consensus, and how can this resistance be overcome?
5. Why is focusing on assumptions rather than beliefs important in consensus-building discussions?

About DISC-Flow®
DISC is a research-backed and science-based personality profiling tool used to understand our behaviours, communication styles, and work preferences. It’s about understanding what makes you – and the people you work with – tick.

Julie South is a DISC Flow® Certified Trainer, who describes DISC-Flow® profiling as being like having a cheat sheet to better understand yourself and other people. When you know this, it helps you play to your personality strengths, work better in teams, and communicate better.

If you’re keen to find out what your personal DISC type is, what type of leader you are, or what your clinic’s team composition looks like, then get in touch with Julie to find out what's involved.

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This is what VetStaff is really good at so if you'd like to stretch your recruitment dollar, please get in touch with Julie because this is something VetStaff can help you with.

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If you’d like to shine online as a good employer to attract the types of veterinary professionals who're a perfect cultural fit for your clinic please get in touch with Julie because thi...