The Journey From Clinician To Administrator

Jay Reeve, PhDChief Executive OfficerApalachee Center, Inc.

Tallahassee, FL

What makes a clinician?

How do we relate to our clients?

How do we relate to each other?

How do we relate to our employers?

The Work?

The Clients?

The Job Satisfaction?

The Self Image?

The Salary?

What makes us leave?

Burn-Out

Flight Into Training

Flight Into Administration

The Reluctant Administrator

From Symptom focus to System focus Treatment/Management Treatment Planning/Business Planning Family System/System of Care – parallels and

differences.

The Supervision/Leadership Continuum: Front Line/Bottom Line Job Development/Agency Development Clinical Risk/Corporate Risk

Some Thoughts About Aggression.

Your client and you You and your Department Your Department and your Agency Your Agency and your Community. Your Community and beyond.

Following your own timeline

Job Role or Life Role? On surrendering your professional identity.

The Expert Trap: On being mentored when you (think) you already know everything.

The Expert Trap II: On leading people who (think) they know more than you do.

After you have made the leap:

Your new staff

Your new peers

Your new boss(es)

Who’s my Boss now? On working with a Board of Directors.

But that happened twenty years ago! On dealing with legacies.

Can you comment on that? On working with the media.

What is that you want? On working with elected officials.

Where’s my seat at the table? On working with advocates.

“When the Sage governs, the people are hardly aware that s/he exists. Next best is a leader who is loved. Next, one who is feared. The worst is one who is despised…the sage doesn’t talk, s/he acts. When the work is done, the people say, ‘Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves’”.

- Tao Te Ching

Kouzes, J. and Posner, B. (2007) The Leadership Challenge (Wiley; New York)

Senge, Peter (1990) The Fifth Discipline (Doubleday; New York)

Studer, Quint (2009) Straight A Leadership (Gulf Breeze; Florida)

Mitchell, S. (translator) (1988) Tao Te Ching (Harper Row; New York)