426 - Coaching Veterinarian on How to Bring Up Issues

Your associate veterinarian is brilliant, data-driven, and right about half the things she wants to fix, yet every time she stops a workflow to say "That's not how I do it," your team walks away feeling criticized while she stays late doing work they were trained to handle. In this mailbag episode of the Uncharted Veterinary Podcast, host Maria Pirita and Dr. Andy Roark tackle coaching associate veterinarians who challenge protocols in ways that land harshly with the team. They walk through separating the behavior from the person, framing a low-stakes ways of working conversation, building a system for veterinary protocol changes, and steering feedback toward the positive so trust can grow. Andy also shares the story of the Roark Report, his own early-career lesson in pushing change too fast. Let's get into this episode!

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