Overview

The National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s Middle Management Academy (MMA) offers specialized leadership training that translates directly to the unique challenges facing community health centers. This training is being offered virtually two more times this year and equips early career managers with essential skills in strengths-based leadership, team engagement, change management, and building accountability to drive better patient outcomes and organizational success. Complete an online interest form by scrolling down to the "Get Started Today!" section.

Recommended Audience

Early-career middle managers

Time Commitment

Topics Covered

• Topic 1: Overview of MMA — Introduction to the Middle Management Academy and its purpose.
• Topic 2: 16 Personalities — Understand weaknesses, strengths, and values, and how to leverage those differences for successful results.
• Topic 3: Building a Strengths-based Culture — Discover your strengths and weaknesses, their value contribution, and how to manage them in supervision, coaching, and clinical work.
• Topic 4: Personal, Collective and Organizational Values — Discover individual values and how they inform supervision, management, and leadership.
• Topic 5: Self-care and Wellness — Explore six domains of wellness.
• Topic 6: Financial Literacy and Management — Understand the intersection of financial responsibility and clinical practice. (Included with in-person training only.)
• Topic 7: Building Cohesive Culture and Behaviors — Explore management roles, ideal staff qualities, and operational definitions of staff qualities for selection, onboarding, and supervision.
• Topic 8: Managing a Successful, Engaged Workforce — Discuss the qualities of great managers, trauma-informed supervision, Gallup’s Q12, and motivation.
• Topic 9: Teams Excellence — Learn how to run successful, meaningful team meetings, eliminate “bad apple” behavior, and identify essential qualities for team success.
• Topic 10: Day-to-Day Supervision — Participate in scenarios and role plays addressing difficult conversations, performance issues, navigating change, improving teamwork, and strengthening supervisory relationships.
• Topic 11: Managing Personal Change — Understand the neuroscience of personal change.
• Topic 12: Managing System Change — Understand the critical elements of successful change efforts, including how to plan, execute, evaluate, and achieve change.
• Topic 13: Brené Brown’s Anatomy of Trust — Explore behaviors and qualities that build trust in concrete, powerful ways.
• Topic 14: Crucial Conversations — Discover a learning model for finding healthy resolution when topics have high stakes and involve differing opinions and strong emotions.
• Topic 15: Healthy Conflict — Understand typical types of conflict that can arise at work, in groups, and one-on-one.
• Topic 16: Group Presentations

Pricing

$2,600