VET4LIFE

Graduate Professional Life Program

Resilient, confident and emotionally intelligent veterinary graduates add value sooner, keep clients loyal and build stable, cohesive teams.

what is it?

A 12 month non-clinical mentoring and group development program for new, recent and struggling veterinary graduates

Who is it for?

Specifically for the new and recent graduates of small, medium and/or regional clinics who might not be able to provide their own formal new graduate development system

what does it cover?

Emotional intelligence
Interpersonal skills
Personal and clinic financial sustainability
Client communication
Immediate and sustainable resilience

what's included?

Group workshops
Small cohort check ins
One-on-one personal coaching
Full day immersive event
Guest speakers and role models
Workbook and manager support

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In-house / whole team
options available

Why invest in your graduate?

To ensure their longevity, sustainability and success in your practice!

Non-clinical skills that facilitate emotional intelligence and professional success sets them up to contribute quickly and meaningfully to your clinic as well as have long, engaged careers.

Longevity

Save on training, recruitment and lag time by helping grads stay longer and be more engaged.

Confidence

They'll be more likely to give things a go, stretch their comfort zone, and bounce back from setbacks or feedback.

Self-Reflection

They'll work better with your team, improve emotional intelligence, and be a pleasure to work with.

Clinic success

They'll understand clinic financial realities, their role within it, and how to navigate difficult client interactions.

Program Content

Specifically formulated for recent graduates that might not otherwise have access to a formal non-clinical development program at smaller and/or regional practices.

Engaging, progressive, and practical, this program is unlike any other.

Interpersonal skills

Develop the people-oriented skills of new graduates to manage interpersonal challenges and understand other perspectives within their new workplaces. Break down inter-generational conflict, facilitate constructive challenging of the status quo, and create more compassion for the perspectives of colleagues and managers.

Emotional intelligence and self-reflection

Improve emotional intelligence and self-reflection skills, reducing frustration and improving performance. Ensure accountability for their own role in challenges, and facilitate growth in their confidence and self-monitoring.

Personal and professional resilience

Focus on developing a lifelong anti-fragile mindset to ensure resilience for the challenges of being a new graduate as well as the ongoing pressures of our profession

Create optimism about the future of their career and the veterinary profession

Shift mindset and narrative of the industry from one of poor outcomes and attrition, and help articulate their ‘why’ to focus on making their own power to create for a long, fulfilling veterinary career

Financial literacy - in the clinic, and life

Developing an interest in, and your contribution to, clinic financial sustainability.

Empowerment to have financial conversations with owners.

Setting yourselves up for financial security, and balancing priorities for your hard earned money.

Communication and behaviour change

Developing not only of basic communication and consulting skills such as rapport and body language, but also creating a deep understanding and interest in how people make decisions, and how we can help the likelihood of them being compliant with our recommendations and treatment plans.

Difficult decisions and ethical challenges

Exiting the structure of undergraduate life where there is always someone else accountable for the difficult decisions, and new graduates suddenly find themselves faced with the real world of being the person needing to make all sorts of complicated recommendations where the lines of 'right and wrong' or 'best practice and adequate practice' are no longer as clear as they expected.

Programme Structure

10 online group workshops

Full of content, learnings and inspiring mentors with positive industry narratives

2 one-on-one coaching sessions

For direct support with challenges or conflicts that arise

Personal workbook

With challenges to perform in the safety of their clinic, scripts for difficult conversations, and tools to support their ongoing resilience

Small peer cohort check-ins

For testing new learnings, troubleshooting issues with peer and mentor support

Full day immersive event

To push resilience barriers, challenge dysfunctional beliefs, and build lifelong skills for creating their own professional fulfilment

Manager workbook

For their in-clinic supervisor to understand what they've been learning in order toguide, challenge, and mentor the principles

Where and when

Monthly 2hr online workshops starting in April

Full day event in September

Sessions are during business hours

Investment

From $1999 + GST, less than the cost of an industry conference, to build lifelong skills that will improve every element of their careers, and their employment with you