Diagnosing for Effective Organizational Plan Design

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the start of every new year, many of us are setting up plans for the coming months. With this comes a lot of solutions, but do we</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">really</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">know what the problem is? We seem to jump to the plan real fast, but maybe we don’t determine the problem in its entirety first.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s guest is former VHMA President, Jim Nash. Jim has 20 years experience in Veterinary medicine and has served on the VHMA board for 13 years. He says that critical issues projects are near and dear to his heart and in today’s episode, he discusses present-day critical issues and how we can look at them through a diagnostic lens.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This topic is so important as the landscape of Veterinary medicine has changed rapidly in recent years. Everything should be revisited and reviewed to help us all create an effective organizational plan.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Show Notes:</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[2:40] - Organizational plans are a newer development in recent years as veterinary medicine changes rapidly.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[4:04] - Critical issues planning recently have included the workforce crisis.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[5:23] - How do we look at a problem and design a solution around that problem?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[7:06] - Looking at a critical issue with a diagnostic lens, it allows us to let go of preconceived notions.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[9:02] - The rapid growth in the organization has taken a toll.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[10:30] - Just because it has been done one way for a while, doesn’t mean that it is the right thing to do. Everything should be reviewed.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[11:49] - The idea of efficiency needs to be redefined as well. What doe