Middle Management Academy: Preparing Behavioral Health’s Future Leaders

Healthcare organizations need a deep “bench strength” of leadership capacity to address the complex challenges inherent in their mission. Yet, many struggle to define a program that will address their specific challenges. That’s where Middle Management Academy (MMA) can help. As a state leader, you set the tone for provider excellence. Your sponsorship of a state-wide MMA cohort(s) offers a number of advantages: 

• You demonstrate a commitment to provider management strength. 
• You offer much-needed training to supervisors and managers throughout the state. 
• You can customize the training to address your specific state and/or demographic challenges. 
• Your providers can network and grow with their peers across regions and agencies. 

Middle Management Academy Training Format 

Our dynamic program has the goal of changing the status quo for learning to make training fun, engaging and effective. Among the features are: 

• Cohort Experience: Highly engaging and grounded in behavioral health-related management content that is real-world and authentic. 
• Dynamic Instructional Model: A skilled instructor guides learners during a four-week virtual experience. The balance of the learning occurs through 20 hours of live Zoom instruction with 10 hours of individual pre-work. 
  • Onsite training will be facilitated over 3.5 days. 
  • All training includes self-study and interactive learning activities, including large and small group activities, discussions and a final project that incorporates lessons learned. 
• Social and Collaborative: Learners thrive in an environment where they can learn from one another. Weekly team meetings and discussion threads add to the power of social learning. Forums remain open as a resource after the course concludes. 
• Engaging and Personalized: Course content can be tailored for state and organizational group trainings to address specific issues or challenges and align with your mission. Trainings can also be tailored to accommodate specific time zones. 
• Secure and Convenient Virtual Learning: Participants can safely discuss personal and professional topics — and learn from a network of peers — without leaving their workplace. 

Middle Management Academy Learning Objectives 

• Understand mental health leadership and management styles and strengths of self and others. 
• Learn and practice enhanced management skills related to behavioral health care staff engagement, change management, and performance excellence. 
• Demonstrate best-practice strategies for setting clear expectations, accountability, healthy conflict, performance coaching, effective teamwork and trust. 
• Learn research-based strategies to contribute to supervisor and management success of behavioral health care organizations.