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.
Live Events
Sponsored by Premiere Partners Zoetis and CareCredit
Explore wellness in veterinary medicine through five engaging and interactive presentations from industry experts and thought leaders:
Bolster your confidence and learn how to deal gracefully with conflict and difficult conversations by attending this intensive, interactive program.
By harnessing your EQ, you can lead with greater impact, better manage, and drive peak performance from your team.
Virtual Events
Virtual Tough Talks
Feb 12th, 2025
Tough Talks a highly interactive 1-day virtual conflict meditation training specifically designed for practice leaders to learn the communication tools necessary to support two employees facing interpersonal conflict.
VGP's Wellness Series - Rethinking Sleep in the Professional World
Feb 20th, 2025 | Sponsored by Zoetis
Dr. Winter will discuss the science behind why we sleep, ways to determine if your sleep is healthy and adequate, and ways to improve sleep and maximize the benefit you get from your rest.
Virtual Leading with Emotional Intelligence
April 30th, 2025
Embark on a transformative journey during our workshop, meticulously crafted to enhance your leadership skills through the lens of emotional intelligence.
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
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.