Unlocking Success: The Power of Investing in an External Coach for Your Veterinary Team

Have you ever considered investing in an external coach for your team?

The expertise and external perspective provided by an external coach can help veterinary practices achieve their desired outcomes across various aspects of leadership, performance, talent development, change management, and cultural transformation.  

Here are three areas in which you will see a significant ROI by investing in coaching for your team:

1) RECRUITMENT & RETENTION 

Perhaps the biggest headache for practices right now is hiring quality and experienced people in a candidate short market. The solution often lies closer to home than people think: It starts with building a team of happy, engaged, and empowered vets and nurses.  

Retention 

Coaching improves engagement and job satisfaction, improves performance and productivity, and enhances communication and interpersonal skills for your existing team, which helps to retain your best assets, and builds a great foundation on which you can grow and expand the team.

Recruitment 

Regular access to a coach whether that’s 1 to 1, in groups, or through team workshops, is a very powerful USP to communicate to the candidate market. Offering ongoing coaching support through an external coach for your team demonstrates your commitment to employee development and makes you an even more attractive prospect in the market.  

2) LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT 

Leadership Coaching enhances your leadership skills, effectiveness, and impact. It improves your communication, decision-making, emotional intelligence, and strategic thinking abilities. 

We specialise in taking veterinary leaders from good, to great, to inspirational! We focus on the 5 Pillars of Inspirational Leadership – 1) Identity, Values, and Authenticity, 2) Energy and Flow, 3) Focus, Structure, and Accountability, 4) Self-Mastery, and 5) Recruitment, to help you ELEVATE yourself, INSPIRE change within your practice, and SERVE powerfully.

Your practice is always a reflection of how you are showing up as a leader. So, if there are changes you wish to see in your business, it always starts with you.  

3) TEAM BUILDING & COLLABORATION 

Our team coaching options and workshops are designed to Support, Empower, Engage, and promote Accountability.

We help your employees to:

• organise their thoughts and understand their emotions, actions, and behaviours.
• identify and reframe mindset obstacles to promote a more positive way of thinking.
• build their own self-coaching toolbox so they have the tools to help themselves.
• build self-awareness and confidence.
• create collective wisdom.
• feel motivated and inspired.
• strengthen the bond between them.
• lean into peer collaboration.
• stay focused on the future with professional and personal goal setting.  

Not yet convinced? 

Let's address that. 

Which of the following five reasons makes you feel hesitant?

1. COST CONCERNS: Investing in coaching requires an investment of funds which you could more easily justify spending on a new piece of equipment. 
2. TIME CONSTRAINTS: You might be thinking, “How could we fit this in? We’re so busy?”
3. UNAWARE: If you haven’t experienced the power of coaching before, you may not be able to fully connect with the massive impact it could have on your team.
4. RESISTANCE TO CHANGE: Perhaps you have always done professional development in your team via traditional CPD and feel sceptical about the effectiveness of something slightly more intangible such as coaching. 
5. FEAR OF TURNOVER: “What if I invest in my team and they leave?” is a common question I’m asked. My response is usually, “What if you don’t invest in your team, and they don’t stay?”