This document summarizes a presentation given by Mike Pownall on the future of equine veterinary medicine. It discusses challenges facing recent veterinary graduates like high student debt loads and an aging generation of practice owners. It suggests that the future lies in collaborative group practices that leverage new technologies and business skills. The presentation advises graduates to gain specialized skills, consider internships, and look for opportunities to add value through client communication and education.
Training on harassment and discrimination prevention is critical to set clear rules and to establish important legal protections. But to remain competitive in today’s diverse and global workplace, organizations must also focus on their culture, and the ability of employees to effectively collaborate. In a diverse workplace, even subtle personal differences (including those not protected by employment laws) impact employee productivity and engagement.
This interactive webinar will be a live, guided demo of ELT’s new online Diversity & Inclusion training course for managers and employees. We will cover how diversity training supports business and cultural goals, discuss the benefits of training beyond legal compliance, and provide a practical overview of diversity training best practices.
The world’s largest economy has had to weather one of the worst recessions in the recent times. Not too long ago U.S. GDP hit the rock-bottom (at -8.9 in the middle of 2009). While it has slowly been coming out of the depths, the growth is not enough to bring down unemployment rate, which is hovering around 7.9% as of October.
Headwaters Horse Country - Evoluation of a Centre of Equine Excellence - Muni...Carolyn Puterbough
Keynote Presentation - The Journey of Developing Headwaters Horse Country -
Ontario's Centre of Equine Excellence
Michele Harris, Executive Director Headwaters Tourism Headwaters Tourism was one of the first regions in Ontario to actively identify the economic importance of the equine
sector in our rural communities and as early as 2008 began exploring ways to enhance
and grow this important sector in the Headwaters region. Michele will tell the story of that journey and how this region is being recognized by the industry for its efforts in innovative rural economic development as it pertains to the equine sector.
Training on harassment and discrimination prevention is critical to set clear rules and to establish important legal protections. But to remain competitive in today’s diverse and global workplace, organizations must also focus on their culture, and the ability of employees to effectively collaborate. In a diverse workplace, even subtle personal differences (including those not protected by employment laws) impact employee productivity and engagement.
This interactive webinar will be a live, guided demo of ELT’s new online Diversity & Inclusion training course for managers and employees. We will cover how diversity training supports business and cultural goals, discuss the benefits of training beyond legal compliance, and provide a practical overview of diversity training best practices.
The world’s largest economy has had to weather one of the worst recessions in the recent times. Not too long ago U.S. GDP hit the rock-bottom (at -8.9 in the middle of 2009). While it has slowly been coming out of the depths, the growth is not enough to bring down unemployment rate, which is hovering around 7.9% as of October.
Headwaters Horse Country - Evoluation of a Centre of Equine Excellence - Muni...Carolyn Puterbough
Keynote Presentation - The Journey of Developing Headwaters Horse Country -
Ontario's Centre of Equine Excellence
Michele Harris, Executive Director Headwaters Tourism Headwaters Tourism was one of the first regions in Ontario to actively identify the economic importance of the equine
sector in our rural communities and as early as 2008 began exploring ways to enhance
and grow this important sector in the Headwaters region. Michele will tell the story of that journey and how this region is being recognized by the industry for its efforts in innovative rural economic development as it pertains to the equine sector.
"Rethinking the Horse Business" is annual webinar that discusses how the Economy, the Horse Industry and the Internet are affecting horse business owners.
Prior to popular belief, an animal shelter is not a place you drop animals off whether stray or to be cremated, rather a true animal shelter is a building that shelters animals from the elements. In Central Oregon, animal shelters are very popular. Regardless if you believe the economy is in a recession or not, many people have been building their own chicken coops, animal shelters and pens for raising their own eggs, meat and produce. There are several types of animals shelters and this article gives you an idea as to what to look for if you’re in the market for an animal shelter.
StoryFlow - Visually Tracking Evolution of StoriesYingcai Wu
Storyline visualizations, which are useful in many applications, aim to illustrate the dynamic relationships between entities in a story. However, the growing complexity and scalability of stories pose great challenges for existing approaches. In this paper, we propose an efficient optimization approach to generating an aesthetically appealing storyline visualization, which effectively handles the hierarchical relationships between entities over time. The approach formulates the storyline layout as a novel hybrid optimization approach that combines discrete and continuous optimization. The discrete method generates an initial layout through the ordering and alignment of entities, and the continuous method optimizes the initial layout to produce the optimal one. The efficient approach makes real-time interactions (e.g., bundling and straightening) possible, thus enabling users to better understand and track how the story evolves.
This work was presented in IEEE InfoVis 2013.
Project page:
http://www.ycwu.org/projects/infovis13.html
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I presented on branding and marketing an equine veterinary practice to members of the Louisiana Vet Med Association Equine Committee in September, 2011. Here is the presentation.
In this session, we will provide an overview of important workforce issues and examine practical solutions and strategies
for addressing them. From recruitment and retention to training and development, we'll cover the essential elements of
building and maintaining an effective and engaged workforce.
business model, business model canvas, mission model, mission model canvas, customer development, lean launchpad, lean startup, stanford, startup, steve blank, entrepreneurship, I-Corps, Stanford
Presentation by Kim Fantaci, Executive Director of Association of Accounting Administartors to AICPA - CPA-SEA Interchange Conference on July 31, 2009 in Orlando, Florida
The business case for work life integration solutionsSeventeenHundred
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Here are my slides from my Zoom talk on 23 June 2020 on The Legal Forecast's On Speaker series. Sorry I didn't get to cover all of this in the 20 min... But at least you got my 5 Ps to go hustle if you were in audience! Please click through to the end where you'll unlock bonus content and inspo :) Don't stop trying. EVER. The world needs your talent! Thanks for dropping by
"Rethinking the Horse Business" is annual webinar that discusses how the Economy, the Horse Industry and the Internet are affecting horse business owners.
Prior to popular belief, an animal shelter is not a place you drop animals off whether stray or to be cremated, rather a true animal shelter is a building that shelters animals from the elements. In Central Oregon, animal shelters are very popular. Regardless if you believe the economy is in a recession or not, many people have been building their own chicken coops, animal shelters and pens for raising their own eggs, meat and produce. There are several types of animals shelters and this article gives you an idea as to what to look for if you’re in the market for an animal shelter.
StoryFlow - Visually Tracking Evolution of StoriesYingcai Wu
Storyline visualizations, which are useful in many applications, aim to illustrate the dynamic relationships between entities in a story. However, the growing complexity and scalability of stories pose great challenges for existing approaches. In this paper, we propose an efficient optimization approach to generating an aesthetically appealing storyline visualization, which effectively handles the hierarchical relationships between entities over time. The approach formulates the storyline layout as a novel hybrid optimization approach that combines discrete and continuous optimization. The discrete method generates an initial layout through the ordering and alignment of entities, and the continuous method optimizes the initial layout to produce the optimal one. The efficient approach makes real-time interactions (e.g., bundling and straightening) possible, thus enabling users to better understand and track how the story evolves.
This work was presented in IEEE InfoVis 2013.
Project page:
http://www.ycwu.org/projects/infovis13.html
Grant Cardone Sales Training University. The #1 sales training platform on the internet today. Real-time solutions for sales meetings, training, troubleshooting, hiring, customer service and motivation.
I presented on branding and marketing an equine veterinary practice to members of the Louisiana Vet Med Association Equine Committee in September, 2011. Here is the presentation.
In this session, we will provide an overview of important workforce issues and examine practical solutions and strategies
for addressing them. From recruitment and retention to training and development, we'll cover the essential elements of
building and maintaining an effective and engaged workforce.
business model, business model canvas, mission model, mission model canvas, customer development, lean launchpad, lean startup, stanford, startup, steve blank, entrepreneurship, I-Corps, Stanford
Presentation by Kim Fantaci, Executive Director of Association of Accounting Administartors to AICPA - CPA-SEA Interchange Conference on July 31, 2009 in Orlando, Florida
The business case for work life integration solutionsSeventeenHundred
Why implement work-life initiatives in your organisation? Because employees who are less stressed and more engaged are more productive leading to cost savings as a result of reduced turnover and absenteeism.
Here are my slides from my Zoom talk on 23 June 2020 on The Legal Forecast's On Speaker series. Sorry I didn't get to cover all of this in the 20 min... But at least you got my 5 Ps to go hustle if you were in audience! Please click through to the end where you'll unlock bonus content and inspo :) Don't stop trying. EVER. The world needs your talent! Thanks for dropping by
This is a presentation I gave to the Indiana Association of Equine Practitioners on November 2, 2016 on different ways that veterinarians can manage their cash flow. It covers managing accounts receivables, inventory control and accounts payables.
This is a presentation I gave to the Indiana Association of Equine Practitioners on November 2, 2016 on Human Resources. It covers everything from hiring, training, paying and sometimes firing staff.
This is a presentation I gave to the Indiana Association of Equine Practitioners on November 2, 2016 on different ways that veterinarian can price their services.
This is the 2nd of 3 presentations that I gave at the NWVMA Annual Convention in October 2016. In this presentation I discuss how the use of a proper business strategy can make any business more popular and less sensitive to competition.
This is my 3rd of 3 presentations that I gave at the NWVMA Annual Convention in October 2016. In this presentation I focus on the key areas that a veterinary business should consider when implementing a social media strategy.
Here is the one of the presentations I gave to the NWVMA association annual conference on October 8, 2016.
The main themes of this presentation are that Millennials are very similar to any other demographic at this point in their life. There are not many differences between how a Baby Boomer felt about work in their 20's and any other generation. Employers must look at Millennials as an age group and not as an anomalous demographic. Another key theme is that the cost of tuition in the USA for veterinary students has increased 1258% over the past 35 years while starting salaries have only increased 24% in 2015 dollars. There is a reason new vets have huge debt loads and most of it is related to the cost of education, and not to careless money management.
This is a presentation I gave at the 2015 AAEP Focus Meeting in August 2015.
My goal in the presentation was to highlight various technologies that can help make a veterinarians life easier. This could mean helping with productivity, interacting with clients and other members of the veterinary health team, treating a patient, educating clients, or making the use of social media much easier.
If you click the "Notes" button on the right under the screen you can see the notes I included for each slide.
Let me know if there is a technology that you use that could benefit other veterinarians.
Thanks
Mike Pownall
An annual review of the factors involving equine veterinary practice management in the areas of business, technology, social media and lifestyle issues.
This is a presentation by Elise Wickett, RVT and Mike Pownall, DVM on the expanded role that RVTs can offer a veterinary practice using recent digital technologies. This allows a RVT to be more productive and offer more value to a veterinary practice.
I gave a presentation on operational efficiencies to the Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association Equine members focusing on vet compensation, AR and inventory processes. These are 3 areas where any veterinary practice can make huge inroads to help reduce expenses.
This is a presentation I gave on August 25, 2011 to a group of EU and UK equine veterinarians at the EBMS International Conference, at the Bartley Lodge Hotel in the New Forest, UK. I was very impressed with the discussions we had and the willingness the attendees had to implement social media in their veterinary practices. I gave them all a challenge to become dedicated users of social media in their businesses, otherwise there will be a real risk that their vet practices might not exist as they know it in the next 5-10 years. I truly believe that social media is the best opportunity we have as veterinarians to combat the numerous challenges facing our industry.
14. USA Student Economic Realities Student Debt to Salary Ratios over Time Salary Year Debt Practice Debt/Salary 1983 $18,897 $19,872 95.10% 1995 $45,251 $31,925 141.70% 2008 $119,658 $61,518 194.50%
17. USA Veterinarian Starting Salaries 2008 Private Clinical Practice % Mean 1 st Year $ Large animal exclusive 2.5 62,424 Large animal predominant 2.7 57,745 Mixed animal 9.3 58,522 Small animal predominant 7.6 61,753 Small animal exclusive 31.5 64,744 Equine 3.3 41,636