NYAPRS Note: Open Minds’ Monica Oss is one of the nation’s most respected and sought after leadership experts and organizational consultants by our behavioral health community. In the piece below, she emphasizes that “an organization can never rise above its leader”, a leader who hopefully has “great transformational skills, a passion for the coming change, and the energy to learn and develop new competencies.” Monica asks “Is your CEO (or program or department leader) ready for the coming shifts in the environment?”
At two April 25th sessions at NYAPRS Annual Albany Executive Seminar, Monica will be on hand to help leaders prepare for the extraordinary changes and demands we all face today. She has also been invited to join many session leaders to host a ‘Lunch ‘n Learn’ table that day.
The Seminar is only 2 and a half weeks away! See program and registration materials at https://registration.nyaprs.org/!
Getting Old Dogs Doing Those New Tricks – The Best OfOPEN MINDSTransformational Leadership & Change Management Resources
By Monica E. Oss Chief Executive Officer,OPEN MINDS April 6, 2013
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I had an interesting discussion this week. A foundation is looking at investing dollars for technical assistance and management into local community-based provider organizations, to ready those organizations for health care reform and changes to Medicaid in their state. The foundation director’s questions to me – How do we know which organizations to select? Which of them will actually change and put the consultation recommendations in place?
Selecting the right organizations is not an easy task, but there is a very straightforward answer. Whether an organization (or a program, or a department) will change is completely dependent on its leadership. You can have the best strategic plan, the best EHR, the best clinical outcomes – but if the organization’s leadership doesn’t embrace the change, it won’t happen. To dig up a very old Malcolm Forbes quote from my early days as a manager, “An organization can never rise above its leader.”
So, the straightforward answer to my colleague’s question? The organizations to invest in are those with a CEO that has great transformational skills, a passion for the coming change, and the energy to learn and develop new competencies.
Is your CEO (or program or department leader) ready for the coming shifts in the environment? To answer that question, I thought I would share the best of our archive on transformational leadership and change management. Take a look and make your own call.
- What Do Today’s Leaders Think About Managing Change?all members
- Creating and Leading A Team in Times of Changepremium members
- Don’t Just Sit There: Change!premium members
- Managing Change as a Leader’s Challengeall members
- Managing at the Speed of Change: What Does It Take to Be Nimble?premium members
- Do You Know How To Command Your Troops? Creating & Leading A Team In Times Of Change
- Leadership Advice From the Experts: Strategies for Managing Change in a Chaotic Environmentpremium members
- They Moved the Managerial Finish Lineall members
- The Payer Perspective On A Changing Health Care Marketpremium members
- The Best Leaders Are The Best Learnersall members
- What’s Your Iceberg?all members
- Managing Change: The Leader’s Challengepremium members
- Leading Through Change: How Can We Move Forward, When We Don’t Know Where to Go?premium members
- What Does it Take to Lead in the Midst of Chaotic Change?all members
- Help Your Managers to Embrace Changeall members