layout: true background-image: url(../../images/slide_background.jpg) background-size: cover class: middle --- # Giving and getting support in a team ### Medium Quotes --- ### “Try and get to know people as individuals as well. Take an interest in their life. Get to know their partners. If they haven’t got partners, invite them round for dinner. Make them part of your extended family. That really helped me fit in. You can put up with a lot more if you’ve got a good group around you. If you feel alone and isolated, it’s just the worst feeling in the world.” --- ### “They just want taking down the pub the next day and putting the world to rights. Podcasts? What the hell? No take them down the pub and tell horror stories from the boss – who’s always got a better one.” --- ### “We’ve got two new grads there and I feel like they were in that situation, I would want them to phone me or to speak to me or even just to text me, you know if they didn’t want to talk over the phone, just to send me a text me and I’d like to think that everybody would have that support from their clients or from their colleagues.” --- ### “Having supportive managers. Having the mechanisms that if you complain about a manager, something is done about it. (She’s been bullying others and all sorts and nothing is ever done about it and that’s a frustration)” --- ### “We’re not the most supportive practice in the world – if you were in a small animal practice, there’s always someone in the building but we’re not standing beside you with that cow, Yes you can phone us and we’ll try to talk you through things or come out when you can.” --- ### “The benefits of being in a mixed practice is that you are back at the practice and you’re seeing the other vets and can chat about cases and things but in a large animal only practice, you might not see any other vets at all and yes, you can phone them… (WhatsAPP) was useful in my previous job because it created that, you can just send a picture and like “look at this, I did this last night and what do you reckon?” … and we found it useful.” --- ### “I think I am actually now a boss and if my colleague felt like that at 2.00 am in the morning, I hope they’d pick up the phone to me. I don’t want to talk about the joys of spring but if they’re feeling distressed then, absolutely, they should talk.” --- ### “And that I have smarter, older peers at the practice who I can learn from, if you feel that you’re the main person, you can feel overwhelmed if you’re the person who everyone turns to so it’s good to have older peers who you can turn to and ask questions and learn from.” --- ### “Anything where there’s not a vested interest is always a good thing. You can talk to the Head vet / practice manager but you’re painfully aware that they have a vested interest. You’ve got to remember that if it’s not aligned with what they want, they’re not actually that supportive.” --- ### “For me it was always knowing I had someone on the end of a phone. Acknowledging the fact that I could always call and say I don’t know what I’m doing and be a bit worried that this situation is happening.”