QUARTERLY BEAT / APRIL 2024
QUARTERLY BEAT / APRIL 2024
SETTING YOURSELF UP FOR SUCCESS AS A LEADER GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR SUCCESSFUL VETERINARY LEADERSHIP
RANDY HALL Founder and CEO, VetLead Huntersville, North Carolina
In this VETgirl leadership webinar, “Setting Yourself Up for Success as a Leader” on February 13, 2024, Randy Hall reviews how to set yourself up for success as a leader! Tune in to get a leadership and check it out HERE!
TEAM SUCCESS QUESTIONS
It is critical to any successful journey that you choose a destination that is compelling, clear, and helps to guide your choices along the way. Leadership is no different. Creating your definition of success helps you ensure that the choices you make support you in achieving your goals. Getting very clear about what you think success looks like for you helps your brain begin to focus on steps that can help you move in the right direction and lays the foundation for you to build habits and patterns that help you achieve that vision. A sk yourself these questions to create your own picture of success :
The focus on your definition of success in a consistent, repeatable, clear way helps you do the things that move you in that direction. Making conscious choices about how you want to behave, and what you want to become or achieve essentially trains your brain to start caring more about those things. You want to get your brain focused on all the things you might do that help you reach a particular destination. But to do that, you must define it as clearly as you can. The more detailed your picture of success is, the more your brain can figure out connections that might help you achieve it. The more time you spend focusing on your definition of success, the more your RAS will think it is important to you, and it will begin to alert you to opportunities in your world to make it happen.
Leadership is about building a connected set of skills and capabilities that work together to help you achieve everything you want. Your brain doesn't really learn in a straight line; it connects all your experiences, ideas, thoughts, observations, and beliefs to form a mental map of what good looks like or how to handle a certain situation. All you need to do is build that mental map in a way that supports your choices, not just the patterns you have had in the past.
• How do I want my team to show up? • How do I want them to prepare for the day? • What kind of attitude would I like them to have? • How do I want my team to handle challenges? • How do I want my team to feel at the end of the day? • How should my team approach learning and their own development?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR R andy H all , F ounder and CEO, V et L ead
Randy spent over 15 years of his career in the animal health industry. Since founding his consulting business in 2009, he has worked with thousands of veterinary hospital leaders and staff members to help them capture their full potential of their own veterinary practices.
LEADER SUCCESS QUESTIONS
KEYS TO SUCCESS
The more clearly you define your vision of success, the more your brain becomes aware of the things you might focus on to make those choices happen. It’s called the Reticular Activating System (RAS). Essentially, it allows your brain to focus more on the things you care most about. And choosing what you really want helps to turn it on. The RAS wakes your brain up into a more conscious state when something important to you is nearby or happening. Here's an example: Have you ever been in a crowded situation at a bar or a conference and heard your name somewhere in the conversation? There are thousands of inputs happening at that moment, visual inputs, audio inputs, and so on, yet that one word captures your complete attention. It happens automatically. Your brain has learned from a young age that the word, your name, is important to you. This causes your brain to focus on it whenever it happens around you.
• What kind of leader do I want to be? • How do I want my team to think about me? • What kind of difference do I want to make? • What will be better if I show up and lead the team well? • What kind of team culture do I want to create?
• Outline your definition of success and update it often. • Choose the skills and knowledge you want so that you can achieve your definition of success. • Practice the skills consistently and help others practice them as well. • Get regular feedback from your team and others so that you can continue to improve and succeed. • Explore leadership resources & tools that help you consider new approaches.
• Why will it matter for the patients? • Why will it matter for the clients? • Why will it matter for me?
WEBINAR HIGHLIGHTS
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