Veterinary Economics Managers’ Retreat

Thursday, November 5, 2009
San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina

7:30 to 8:30 a.m. -- Registration and Breakfast
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. -- Seminar

 
Evaluate your practice: Focus your strengths on future growth

 

As a practice manager, you face numerous challenges with the potential to stand between you and greater success: personnel management, financial management, marketing, managing your practice owner - perhaps even managing yourself!

Veterinary Economics Managers' Retreat can help you overcome these obstacles. During this day-long session, hospital management editor Mark Opperman, CVPM, and his partner, Sheila Grosdidier, BS, RVT, MCP, PHR will apply their practice management expertise toward thoroughly evaluating your management style. As you explore your strengths and weaknesses with their help and interact with other managers, you'll develop a plan of action to elevate your practice to its next level.

 

The 2009 Managers' Retreat will help you:

• Create a plan for the future success of your practice

• Develop "10" employees

• Increase efficiency and productivity within your practice
• Determine which financial information to monitor and control
• Manage your practice owner by "managing up"
• Envision and manage the "ideal" veterinary hospital

Sound exciting? It is! The session's group dynamic, combined with the problem-solving power of the talented professionals who attend, will help you become a more effective manager capable of reaching extraordinary new levels of success!

 You’ll receive:

• 7 hours of CE credit

• A seminar proceedings book

• Free continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshments

 

Cost: $219 if you register by September 30, 2009

 
Mark Opperman, CVPM
Through his consulting firm, VMC Inc., Opperman has worked with more than 600 veterinary hospitals. He has trained more than 150 practice managers through his VMC School of Veterinary Practice Management. He founded the Veterinary Hospital Managers Association and was honored with their Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. A frequent speaker at conventions across the world, Opperman earned the NAVC Speaker of the Year award in 2001. He has helped create various educational products, serves as the hospital management editor for Veterinary Economics, and literally wrote the book on practice management: The Art of Veterinary Practice Management.

Shelia Grosdidier, BS, RVT, MCP, PHR
Grosdidier’s accomplishments include being twice named NAVC speaker of the year. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional for networks (MCP) and holds certification as a Professional of Human Resources (PHR). As a partner at VMC Inc., Grosdidier conducts on-site hospital visits and has developed a seminar series to help take practices to the next level.

 
BEST DEAL: Save even more when you combine your registration with a Firstline Live or CVC practice manager reistration!