Weeding Out the “Clinicians in Managers’ Clothing”

Thursday, December 2, 2010
Today, as we continue our discussion on the challenges of finding quality managers in the health and human services field (Misunderstood Motivations Lead To Bad Management Decisions all members), I wanted to present a slightly different viewpoint. OPEN MINDS Circle member William F. Milnor, Director of Business Processes at the Mental Health Center of Denver, has had positive experiences in promoting clinicians to managers:

I have hired many managers out of the clinician pool and have paid very close attention to their specific motivations, and I want to believe that most hiring processes are similarly informed . . .