Workplace Culture – Three Critical Pillars to Improving Your Vet Clinic’s Workplace Culture

Embracing Personality Diversity: Unlocking Team Synergy

In every workplace, we encounter individuals with diverse personalities, communication styles, and behavioural preferences. This diversity can be a double-edged sword – it can create creativity and innovation, and it can also lead to misunderstandings and conflicts if not managed effectively.

Embracing personality diversity through DISC Flow® profiling provides a powerful framework for understanding and appreciating these differences. By recognising and valuing each team member’s unique personality traits, you create an environment where everyone feels respected and empowered to contribute their best.

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Emotional Intelligence: the key to unlocking your true potential

We’re all human, and emotions are an integral part of our existence. Whether we realise it or not, these emotions influence us and those around us every single day.

Developing Emotional Intelligence understanding provides powerful psychological tools that teach us to identify our own emotions and those of others. When we can manage our own emotions constructively it allows them to work for us rather than against us in our interactions.

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The Veterinary Teamwork Formula with Certified DISC Flow® Training

Enhance your veterinary clinic’s performance with these 11 key benefits of DISC Flow®.  Each serves as an essential component in the formula for teamwork and organisational health:

1. Enhanced Communication: Clear and effective channels for understanding and collaboration among your staff.
2. Synergistic Teamwork: A harmonious work environment where each member’s strengths are optimised.
3. Boosted Productivity: Streamlined operations resulting from better-aligned team roles and responsibilities.
4. Effective Conflict Resolution: Tools and insights to resolve differences constructively and quickly.
5. Supported Personal Growth: Opportunities for professional development tailored to individual behavioural styles.
6. Leadership Development: Leadership strategies refined to match the diverse needs of the team.
7. Optimised Training: Customised learning approaches that cater to the unique DISC Flow® profiles within your team.
8. Improved Recruitment: Post-hire DISC Flow® assessments improve onboarding and streamline new team member integration.
9. Increased Engagement: Higher job satisfaction and commitment from employees who feel understood and valued.
10. Cultural Alignment: A workplace culture that resonates with the values and behaviours of all team members.
11. Strategic Team Design: The intentional composition of teams based on DISC Flow® profiles to maximise effectiveness and harmony.

Implementing DISC Flow® within your clinic can lead to a more cohesive, efficient, and positive workplace, much like a well-oiled machine where every component works in concert towards a common goal.

Got a People Problem you’d like solved…?

Complete the form below to get in touch with Julie South today to find out how she can help you with your DISC Flow® solvable people problems.

Emotional Intelligence: the key to unlocking your true potential

We’re all human, and emotions are an integral part of our existence. Whether we realise it or not, these emotions influence us and those around us every single day.

Developing Emotional Intelligence understanding provides powerful psychological tools that teach us to identify our own emotions and those of others.  When we can manage our own emotions constructively it allows them to work for us rather than against us in our interactions.

Daniel Goleman – Science Writer

The concept of Emotional Intelligence gained widespread popularity in the 1990s thanks to the ground breaking work of Daniel Goleman, a science writer for the New York Times.

Goleman was part of a growing group of researchers who were concerned that traditional tests of cognitive intelligence failed to capture the full picture of what it takes to be truly successful in life.   He argued that business success wasn’t solely determined by cognitive intelligence but also by our emotional intelligence.

Self Awareness:  the cornerstone of Emotional Intelligence

Self-awareness is the cornerstone of emotional intelligence. Becoming self-aware is the process of:

• understanding yourself,
• being attuned to the way you feel, and
• recognising the impact your emotions can have on your decisions and actions.

Building self-awareness requires tuning in to your feelings and developing the ability to recognise an emotion as it happens. Simply put, when you’re aware of your emotions (ie, self-aware), you can better manage them.

Awareness of others can be described as the ability to understand and respond to the needs of those around you.  When you get this right, people feel valued, listened to, and understood.  Get it wrong, and you can come across as uncaring or insensitive.

The more skilled you are at picking up on others’ signals, the better you’ll be at connecting with them.

Recognising personal triggers

We all recognise that different situations can trigger different emotions within us. For example, a family get-together may trigger joy or anxiety, while a call to the boss’s office may trigger excitement or worry.

Emotional Intelligence doesn’t place a value on the emotions we experience, but it allows us to acknowledge our emotions as they occur and gives us the opportunity to choose how to respond.

In the DISC Flow® model, your level of emotional intelligence is assumed to be the factor that enables how well you control your behaviour.

It’s widely acknowledged that a person with high levels of emotional intelligence is better able to manage themselves according to the demands of the environment they find themselves in.

When you increase your emotional intelligence, you’ll:

• become a better communicator,
• strengthen your relationships with others, and
• improve the overall quality of your life.

As the American poet Maya Angelou wisely said,

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Investing in DISC Flow® team and personal development assessments at your veterinary clinic means that knowledge and skill will combine to unlock your team’s true potential.

The Veterinary Teamwork Formula with DISC Flow® Certified Trainer – Julie South

Enhance your veterinary clinic’s performance with these 11 key benefits of DISC Flow®.  Each serves as an essential component in the formula for teamwork and organisational health:

1. Enhanced Communication: Clear and effective channels for understanding and collaboration among your staff.
2. Synergistic Teamwork: A harmonious work environment where each member’s strengths are optimised.
3. Boosted Productivity: Streamlined operations resulting from better-aligned team roles and responsibilities.
4. Effective Conflict Resolution: Tools and insights to resolve differences constructively and quickly.
5. Supported Personal Growth: Opportunities for professional development tailored to individual behavioural styles.
6. Leadership Development: Leadership strategies refined to match the diverse needs of the team.
7. Optimised Training: Customised learning approaches that cater to the unique DISC Flow® profiles within your team.
8. Improved Recruitment: Post-hire DISC Flow® assessments improve onboarding and streamline new team member integration.
9. Increased Engagement: Higher job satisfaction and commitment from employees who feel understood and valued.
10. Cultural Alignment: A workplace culture that resonates with the values and behaviours of all team members.
11. Strategic Team Design: The intentional composition of teams based on DISC Flow® profiles to maximise effectiveness and harmony.

Implementing DISC Flow® within your clinic can lead to a more cohesive, efficient, and positive workplace, much like a well-oiled machine where every component works in concert towards a common goal.

Got a People Problem you’d like solved…?

Complete the form below to get in touch with Julie South today to find out how she can help you with your DISC Flow® solvable people problems.

Emotional Intelligence: the key to unlocking your true potential

We’re all human, and emotions are an integral part of our existence. Whether we realise it or not, these emotions influence us and those around us every single day.

Developing Emotional Intelligence understanding provides powerful psychological tools that teach us to identify our own emotions and those of others.  When we can manage our own emotions constructively it allows them to work for us rather than against us in our interactions.

Daniel Goleman – Science Writer

The concept of Emotional Intelligence gained widespread popularity in the 1990s thanks to the ground breaking work of Daniel Goleman, a science writer for the New York Times.

Goleman was part of a growing group of researchers who were concerned that traditional tests of cognitive intelligence failed to capture the full picture of what it takes to be truly successful in life.   He argued that business success wasn’t solely determined by cognitive intelligence but also by our emotional intelligence.

Self Awareness:  the cornerstone of Emotional Intelligence

Self-awareness is the cornerstone of emotional intelligence. Becoming self-aware is the process of:

• understanding yourself,
• being attuned to the way you feel, and
• recognising the impact your emotions can have on your decisions and actions.

Building self-awareness requires tuning in to your feelings and developing the ability to recognise an emotion as it happens. Simply put, when you’re aware of your emotions (ie, self-aware), you can better manage them.

Awareness of others can be described as the ability to understand and respond to the needs of those around you.  When you get this right, people feel valued, listened to, and understood.  Get it wrong, and you can come across as uncaring or insensitive.

The more skilled you are at picking up on others’ signals, the better you’ll be at connecting with them.

Recognising personal triggers

We all recognise that different situations can trigger different emotions within us. For example, a family get-together may trigger joy or anxiety, while a call to the boss’s office may trigger excitement or worry.

Emotional Intelligence doesn’t place a value on the emotions we experience, but it allows us to acknowledge our emotions as they occur and gives us the opportunity to choose how to respond.

In the DISC Flow® model, your level of emotional intelligence is assumed to be the factor that enables how well you control your behaviour.

It’s widely acknowledged that a person with high levels of emotional intelligence is better able to manage themselves according to the demands of the environment they find themselves in.

When you increase your emotional intelligence, you’ll:

• become a better communicator,
• strengthen your relationships with others, and
• improve the overall quality of your life.

As the American poet Maya Angelou wisely said,

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Investing in DISC Flow® team and personal development assessments at your veterinary clinic means that knowledge and skill will combine to unlock your team’s true potential.

The Veterinary Teamwork Formula with DISC Flow® Certified Trainer – Julie South

Enhance your veterinary clinic’s performance with these 11 key benefits of DISC Flow®.  Each serves as an essential component in the formula for teamwork and organisational health:

1. Enhanced Communication: Clear and effective channels for understanding and collaboration among your staff.
2. Synergistic Teamwork: A harmonious work environment where each member’s strengths are optimised.
3. Boosted Productivity: Streamlined operations resulting from better-aligned team roles and responsibilities.
4. Effective Conflict Resolution: Tools and insights to resolve differences constructively and quickly.
5. Supported Personal Growth: Opportunities for professional development tailored to individual behavioural styles.
6. Leadership Development: Leadership strategies refined to match the diverse needs of the team.
7. Optimised Training: Customised learning approaches that cater to the unique DISC Flow® profiles within your team.
8. Improved Recruitment: Post-hire DISC Flow® assessments improve onboarding and streamline new team member integration.
9. Increased Engagement: Higher job satisfaction and commitment from employees who feel understood and valued.
10. Cultural Alignment: A workplace culture that resonates with the values and behaviours of all team members.
11. Strategic Team Design: The intentional composition of teams based on DISC Flow® profiles to maximise effectiveness and harmony.

Implementing DISC Flow® within your clinic can lead to a more cohesive, efficient, and positive workplace, much like a well-oiled machine where every component works in concert towards a common goal.

Got a People Problem you’d like solved…?

Complete the form below to get in touch with Julie South today to find out how she can help you with your DISC Flow® solvable people problems.

How do recruitment agencies work?

For Vets, Vet Nurses and Vet Techs who’re looking for their next vet clinic job

Free service for job seekers

Yes!  You read that correct.  It’s 100% free (no charge whatsoever) for vets, vet nurses or vet techs to use VetStaff to help you find your next dream job.

How do we earn our living and stay in business, you might be asking.   Vet clinics pay us to help them find great veterinary professionals.  Our fantastic clients use our services again and again (so we’re obviously doing something right, right?).

Exploratory discussion 

We’re happy to answer any of your vet clinic job type questions.   If you’re in NZ you can call us toll free on 0800 483 869.   Send us an email.  Or WhatsApp text message on +6427 282 4155.

You can also start the ball rolling by completing the registration form.   As soon as we receive this one of us will be in touch with you.

We’ll contact you either by email or phone in the first instance.   This will involve a quick chat to see where you’re at with your job hunting and whether we can help you (or not).

Just so you know, completing our online form in no way commits you.   It only takes a couple of minutes of your time and gives us more info about you.

Locum, Permanent (full and part time) Vet Jobs

VetStaff is what’s known as a full service recruitment agency.   This means we work across the spectrum of permanent and locum positions.

We have vet clinic clients registered with us from Kaitaia (in the Far North) to Bluff (in Southland) and everywhere in between.

Whether you’re looking for a Companion (small) Animal, Mixed Animal, Large (production) Animal, Equine or Exotic veterinary job, it doesn’t matter.   We have vacancies across all species, in all types of clinics (independent and privately owned clinics through to offshore multinational corporate clinics).

Full Service Recruitment Agency

We’re what’s known as a full service recruitment agency. 

This means we work with job seekers (candidates) from start to finish.

We promise not to bulk-spray your CV to all our vet clinic clients.  In fact, we’ll only recommend vet jobs to you where we believe the cultural fit is right for you and the clinic.

How do we know this?

Because we invest a lot of time (hours) in getting to know you, what’s important to you and what you want.

With us on your team, you’re guaranteed to get the absolute best possible job offer – one that matches your needs.   We negotiate on your behalf.

Because negotiating is another day in the office for us, we like to think we’re good at it.   Our experience is that most job seekers don’t like negotiating for themselves very much and most likely end up selling themselves short.

We will not sell you short!  We believe every veterinary professional deserves to work in a job where they’re excited about turning up for work on Monday mornings!

It’s what we do and we’re good at it!

For vet clinics with vet job vacancies looking for their next dream team member

Service Levels

We have several different service offerings for vet clinic employers.   This depends on whether you want us to do everything for you, or you want to do the kiwi thing and DIY your own recruitment.

If you want to DIY, we can help you get better results from your job advertisements.

Find out more – get in touch

If you’re wondering whether you’d like to work with us, the best thing to do is get in touch with us and have a chat.   That way, you can decide whether we’re a good fit for your clinic.

Toll free (in New Zealand) on 0800 483 869.

WhatsApp Message +6427 282 4155

Email team@vetstaff.co.nz

Locum, Permanent (full and part time) Job Seekers

We have vets and vet nurses on our register looking for permanent (full time and part time) as well as locum positions.

Full Service Recruitment Agency

We’re what’s known as a full service recruitment agency. 

This means we work with job seekers and clinics from start to finish.

We promise to only send you candidates we believe will be a good fit for your clinic.   How can we make this promise?   Because not only have we interviewed, reference and background checked all our candidates, we take the time to get to know your clinic as well.

Because we do so much (ie, provide the full recruitment service) it means you can focus on doing what your primary job is (which probably isn’t recruitment!) at your clinic.

Julie South on the Vet Success podcast with Isaiah Douglas