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, articles, e-courses and more to strengthen your understanding of what it takes to be a successful veterinary 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”
Pathway Planning
Whether you’re new to Pathway Planning or just want to fine tune your plan, this course is for you. Learners receive 6 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.
In-person Events
Registration Open!
This intensive, interactive program is a great way to take the dread and anxiety out of dealing with conflict and difficult conversations. You’ll learn how to gracefully navigate both by developing critical leadership skills that allow you to productively manage conflict.
Have you ever thought about how much conflict costs your practice? Over the course of the weekend, you'll learn and practice the five-step model for managerial mediation that will allow you to support your team in a productive problem-solving conversation.
Virtual Events
Leading with Emotional Intelligence
June 21-22 Registration Open!
Lead with greater impact and apply emotional intelligence to manage and drive peak performance in your direct reports and team.
IGNITE
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.
IGNITE EXCLUSIVE
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.
Featured Articles
Delve into helpful and timely articles about:
- Communication
- Finance
- Human Resources
- Inventory Management
- Leadership
- Marketing
- Strategic Planning
