Managing Up and Growing Your Career in Veterinary Leadership
VHMA Member Price: $69; Nonmember Price: $99
In this session, Melissa will address some key ways you can show your value and expand your leadership role in your practice. Specifically, she will focus on the following:
- Delegation – when and how to delegate (it’s sooner than you think!)
- Growing team leads and lower-level managers
- How to step away from a more hands-on role
- Balancing your time and getting things done
- Asking for and getting more responsibility
- Leadership is lonely, and how to deal
- Transitioning from peer to boss
Credit
CEU1:1.5
Description
Speaker: Melissa Cary, CVPM
Melissa has worked in veterinary medicine since she was a teenager. She refers to herself as a “lifer.” She began her career in large animal emergency medicine as a nurse. She later transitioned to a position as an ophthalmology technician, where she was introduced to a wider world of specialty veterinary medicine. It was here the Melissa was given the opportunity to be in a leadership role and discovered her passion for leading and caring for others. Melissa has a passion for communication and cultivating the culture within a hospital setting. She believes in a team-first approach to leadership and has been able to apply this approach in multiple hospital settings. Melissa has spent time working in general practice and specialty hospitals in a leadership role. She is currently the hospital director of an emergency and specialty hospital in Virginia. Melissa earned her CVPM in the summer of 2021.
