How to host an effective team meeting

On this week's episode of The Vet Blast Podcast, host Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, talks with Michael Shirley, chief empowerment officer at Family Pet Health, about making team meetings less of a burden, and more efficient. Throughout the episode, Shirley shares advice from his own experiences.

According to Shirley, there are 4 things that every effective meeting has:

1. An agenda
2. A set start and end time
3. The ability to solve problems
4. Valuable to all involved

Below is a partial transcript

Adam Christman, DVM, MBA: So, we had this thing called a happy jar in our hospital, and it [was] just little sticky notes... If Jan was staying late to mop the floor, or whatever, we [would] throw that in the jar, or whatever, [maybe saying] that this 1 guy stayed extra to help the doctor out with a pyometra. And then we would read those. What are your thoughts on that? And kind of peppering that into just kind of your general meeting. Listen, I know there could be different circumstances, but what are your thoughts on that?

Michael Shirley: So, every meeting that we have at Family Pet Health starts with that. We call it our segue, and it's a way that we go around the room... Every single morning at our office starts with morning rounds, and we do a segue. There we go around and do 2 words. For someone like you and me, it's hard to do because we want to give more details, but it's 2 words [to describe how you're feeling].