OPEN MINDS Management Training Seminars

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OPEN MINDS Management & Executive Education Seminars provide an opportunity for executives as well as directors and managers to add to their knowledge base and management skills on issues significantly impacting the behavioral health and social service field. Seminars are presented by OPEN MINDS senior staff with extensive consulting experience and up-to-the-minute knowledge of trends affecting the field. All OPEN MINDS management and executive education seminars are regional one day on-site workshops with six contact hours per seminar. They are arranged by topic below:

Financial Management One-Day Seminars

The Financial Management Seminars provide cutting-edge financial management models and financial risk management techniques.

• An Executive Update of U.S. Financing of Health & Human Services: Past, Present, & Future

• Budgeting for Clinical Managers & Supervisors

• Developing Disease Management Programs: Using Population-Based Management Strategies to Create New Market Opportunities

• Maintaining (& Increasing) Your Organization's Profitability: A Structured Approach to Diagnosing Your Organization's revenue & Margin

• The Changing Federal Funding Landscape & Its Implication for the Behavioral Health & Social Service Field

• Using Return-On-Investment Analysis as a Tool for Strategic Decision Making: Assessing & Planning for Technology & Capital Projects

• Using Target Costing Models to Solve Your Pricing & Cost Management Problems

Information Technology One-Day Seminars

The Information Technology Seminars specialize in assisting behavioral health and social service organizations to fully benefit from technology investments including choosing technology applications and vendors best suited to the organization's requirements and overcoming cultural resistance to adopting technology.

• How Much is Enough? Evaluating Strategic Technology Investments

• How to Select an Information System & Write a Contract to Assure Successful System Implementation

Leadership & Governance One-Day Seminars

The Leadership & Governance Seminars provide effective planning to boards of for-profit, not-for-profit, and government agencies. These sessions address the constantly changing landscape with the development of board briefing sessions, facilitation of planning initiatives, and organizational and board development.

• An Executive Update of U.S. Financing of Health & Human Services: Implications for Leadership

• Do I Have the Right Team? Assessing and Developing Leadership & Management Competencies

• Enhancing Customer Service Skills for Front-Line Services Staff

• How Does Our Executive Team Know We're on Track? Using Data-Driven Management to Improve Organizational and Program Performance

• How to Leverage Human Resources Investments for Increased Growth & Profitability

• Improving the Effectiveness of Your Non-Profit Board: Tools for Planning, Performance Measurement & More

• Increased Responsibility & Accountability for Non-Profit Boards Serving Children & Families

• Leading Through Constant Change: The Mandate for Today's Successful Executive

Marketing & Development One-Day Seminars

The Marketing and Development Seminars provide behavioral health and social service organizations with the strategies to rapidly analyze and successfully respond to changing market conditions.

• A Structured Approach to Maximizing Organizational Efficiency and Profitability Using Service Line Management

• Developing a Winning Marketing Plan: Using 'Best Practice' Marketing Tools to Meet Your Organization's Revenue Goals

• How to Win a Competitive RFP: Developing Tactics for Building New Customer Relationships & Writing Winning Proposals

• Solution-Focused Sales: Tools to Beat the Competition & Close the Deal

• Succeeding With Grants: Keys to Attracting Grant Funding to Your Organization

Strategic Planning & Management One-Day Seminars

The Strategic Planning & Management Seminars set the foundation for critical planning and decision making throughout the organization including Operations and Business Process Management, Human Resource Management, and Public Agency Program Design and Operations Management.

• Best Practice Management: Tools for Achieving Superior Results Through Others

• Best Practice Management: Planning for the Next Generation of Behavioral Health & Social Services

• Best Practices for Front-Line Supervisors: Achieving Employee Performance, Retention & Commitment Through Effective Supervision

• Clinical Management Tools for Implementing New Programs Using Evidence-Based Practices

• Developing a Winning Strategic Plan: A Structured Approach to Maximizing Resources to Achieve Your Organizational Objectives

• Fine-Tuning Your Compliance Operations: Best Practices in HIPAA, OIG & Sarbanes-Osley Compliance

• Performance-Based Contracting in Children's Services: How to Structure Private & Public Sector Responsibility in System Accountability

• Reinventing Your Service Delivery System: How to Build a Children's Continuum of Care Model for the Future

• Service Integration in Children's Services: How to Create Successful Partnerships With Other Service Delivery Systems

• The Clinician Manager: An Intensive Training Experience for New Managers