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Many behavioral health organizations rely on grant funding to supplement their budgets. Preparing a grant application, especially for federal funding, can be a long and arduous process, requiring considerable human resources. Before embarking on this process, it is important to discern whether applying is worth the time and effort.

In 2023, it’s time to build on the lessons from the past few years and make employee wellness a strategic business goal. It will help every initiative in your organization succeed. 2022 presented formidable challenges for many healthcare organizations, but with the turn of a new year comes newfound hope. This year brings an opportunity to pivot and push forward from hardship toward success in this ever-changing industry.

Strategic plans: Most organizations know they need them but not all have managed to create them — or even more difficult — implement them well. It can be hard to know where to start when it comes to strategic planning and even harder to make sure that your plan is successful. Here’s a quick list of tips for how to design and successfully execute a strategic plan. 

If you are like most leaders, a high priority is an effective leadership team. But how do you help the team function at its full potential? For the last blog post in our HEART series, we will outline six steps to address when working on your leadership team’s effectiveness. 

We are in the era of the great resignation. The 2021 “quit rate” for employees in American business was at a 20 year high. This year is not much better. Price Waterhouse Cooper estimates that at least 20% of workers are planning to quit their jobs in 2022. This trend is particularly prevalent in younger workers: workers under 30 are more than twice as likely as older adults to voluntarily leave their jobs.

As a leader in behavioral healthcare, you have an opportunity to spark excitement, engagement, and productivity among your teams. Front line staff can often feel that all management cares about are billable hours, which is how we often measure “productivity”, while what they want to do is to make a difference in the life of the person in front of them.