b'EMPOWERED TO INSPIRE, ACHIEVE AND LEAD TOGETHEREMPOWERED TO INSPIRE, ACHIEVE AND LEAD TOGETHEREMPOWERED TO INSPIRE, ACHIEVE AND LEAD TOGETHEREMPOWERED TO INSPIRE,VETERINARY WOMAN CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGEACHIEVE & LEAD TOGETHERchanges. What I learned was to explain your change and find your first followersthose that will help you so that you can demonstrate the change and its positive benefits.What are your next steps to continue creating change for the better?I plan to keep looking for areas of improvement and to keep listening inside and outside of our industry for solutions. Most of our solutions are not uniquethey come from seeing how others have solved the same problems in other industries and working out how best to apply them for the benefit of our team, clients and patients.demonstrate the pros and cons of the change. Once any teething issues have been resolved and we feel the change is ready to be fully adopted, its then much easier to bring everyone on board.What are the biggest challenges you have encountered in this journey and how have you overcome them?If it aint broke dont fix it! Resistance to change is always the biggest challenge. But communication is your biggest ally, with an understanding that motivations will be different for different people within the team. Thats why its important to communicate any change in different ways or to different audiences to ensure that everybody is on board and comfortable with what theyre being asked to do.What has most helped and motivated you alongthe way? What has helped most is being allowed to safely fail, as this is where some of the best lessons have come from.What is the best advice youve been given, or that you would give to someone else, about driving positive change?Its evolution not revolution. That was the advice given to me by a senior vet when I started out and wanted to make www.veterinarywoman.co.uk 43'