Education
Enhance your practice
with educational opportunities
for your
entire team.
Enhance your practice with educational opportunities for your entire team.
VGP offers a variety of educational webinars, events, e-courses and more to strengthen your understanding of what it takes to be a successful veterinary practice.
In-person Events
Pathway Planning is a system for diagnosing and assessing your hospital’s business health. A finished Pathway Plan is analogous to a treatment plan for your hospital. Like medicine, treatment plans are only useful if they are followed.
Recent studies indicate that emotional intelligence (EQ) is a powerful tool and key to effective leadership.
This 2.5-day 12-hour RACE-approved program will get you the skills you need!
Virtual Events
Virtual Leading with Emotional Intelligence
June 12th
Emotional intelligence is a critical skill for every member of your team, not just leadership! Great for your whole team!
Virtual Team Approach to Healthy Conflict
August 21st
Ready to learn more about conflict? This 2-day10-hour RACE-approved program is now available to you virtually!
QPR Training
The QPR mission is to reduce suicidal behaviors and save lives by providing innovative, practical, and proven suicide prevention training.
Agility Leadership
VGP's newest educational opportunity! Guided Group Mentorship and Learning.
Veterinary Growth Partners believes in giving our members the best educational experiences possible! Now members have access to TWO great learning platforms, EdQuest, and The NEW IGNITE . Our two new learning platforms are linked, so you will have one login to access both. Log in on EdQuest or The NEW IGNITE and switch back and forth seamlessly.
Pathway Planning
Whether you’re new to Pathway Planning or just want to fine tune your plan, this course is for you. Learners receive 1 hours of RACE-approved CE credits upon completion and all team members are welcome.
OSHA
Included in VGP Elite membership, this course is packed with information about OSHA that can be shared with your team for training and includes one hour of RACE. The training is easy to use, adult-learner friendly, and can be completed at your own pace.
Emotional Intelligence
This RACE-approved (for 3 credit hours) course teaches the four areas of emotional intelligence—self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management—and how you can develop your skills in each to better lead your team and practice.
Webinars
VGP hosts new monthly, 30 to 60-minute virtual practice management seminars covering topics including budgeting, inventory, management, leadership, marketing plan implementation and much more. VGP Elite members can also access our entire catalog of past webinar recordings.
Watch an example of one of our RACE Approved webinars: “Work Life Harmony: How to Balance Your Career for a Happy, Healthy Life”
Featured Articles
Improve Team Retention (and more) with Strengths-Based Coaching
By Jamie Davis, CVPM
If you have ever been part of the interview process, you have likely heard the question – “What are your strengths?” which is often followed by “What are your weaknesses?” Using this information for our selection process is common. However, the use of these questions in our team development is not near as common and this is a big, missed opportunity.
IGNITE is the place for one-of-a-kind learning and job role resources for your entire veterinary team. IGNITE members can interact with peers and our well-known experts to learn and share best practices.
Veterinary Receptionist Certificate of Excellence (VRCE) certification
This accredited certification gives dedicated client service team members a year to complete the program at their own pace. It includes 40 hours of training—via e-learning courses, in-clinic activities, group discussions and workbook assignments—followed by a proctored final exam. Workbook and support resources are provided and VGP members get special pricing.