A vaccination for the turnover blues?
Turnover continues to be a major morale, effectiveness, efficiency drain on public sector behavioral health organizations. It doesn’t seem to matter whether the turnover is caused by layoffs and downsizing, hiring freezes, or just normal staffing cycles. The results can be devastating. Here are some practical solutions to take now to prevent some of [...]
Moving from data to action, or “Where’s the bacon?”
I was struck by something Marcus Buckingham said the other day. (Actually, I am struck by almost everything he says, but that’s a story for another day.) Here is the quote:
“Conventional wisdom says ‘What gets measured gets managed.’ True, but still, you don’t make the pig any fatter by weighing it everyday. You must [...]
Latest OIG audit offers practical guidance
It seems that the number of OIG audits in behavioral health have slowed down in the last fiscal year – probably not a coincidence with the Obama inauguration occurring in January.
The one audit related to Target Case Management (TCM) is dated September 1, 2009, and concerns a review of Pennsylvania’s Medicaid payments for TCM. [...]
Training and fun
This weekend I have been learning some new technology and having so much fun that sometimes I feel giddy. Now this is not some new computer game – this is a work technology, and I enjoyed myself so much I had to make myself stop to go eat.
This has me thinking about all those trainings [...]
YouTube as a recovery resource?
An interesting thing happened on the way to developing some training on functional assessments.
I discovered that a lot of public-sector behavioral health clients are sharing their experiences on YouTube. That’s right. YouTube.
What an amazing resource! Here, in their own words, clients are talking about their successes, the things they are proud of accomplishing, [...]
Lee Ann Slayton
President, Slayton Consulting, LLC