Guest Contributor – Caitlin Keat, MSm
We’ve combined two contributions from Caitlin Keat. Leadership behaviors do not always come naturally. Recognizing and allowing the whole person is critical to improving team dynamics, successes, retention and continuity.
Wholeness is a state of forming a complete and harmonious whole. It is ongoing, everchanging, and something we have the ability to form or create. The result is unity.”
Embracing your Whole Team improves retention, business performance and culture. It acknowledges differences, diversity and skills. It is not solely the leader’s responsibility.
Sources:
The Whole Team, Empowering Veterinary Teams, October 9, 2020. Link.
Take your team HIGHER, Empowering Veterinary Teams, July 31, 2020. Link. Keat describes leadership as a process providing an acronym for developing a team that reaches HIGHER. Process being a key point. The acronym stands for:
- Higher
- Instruct
- Goals
- Have accountability
- Empower
- Rely
Treat yourself the same way as your team, find the cause, fix it and keep moving forward. Both you and your team are learning and growing every step of the way.”
INSIGHTS: Caitlin Keat, BS, MS ,and partner Alyssa Mages BS, CVT, support, coach and inspire veterinary team members. Learn more at Empowering Veterinary Teams (EVT).