1. The Journey From Clinician To Administrator Jay Reeve, PhD Chief Executive Officer Apalachee Center, Inc. Tallahassee, FL

2.  What makes a clinician?  How do we relate to our clients?  How do we relate to each other?  How do we relate to our employers?

3.  The Work?  The Clients?  The Job Satisfaction?  The Self Image?  The Salary?

4.  What makes us leave?  Burn-Out  Flight Into Training  Flight Into Administration  The Reluctant Administrator

5.  From Symptom focus to System focus  Treatment/Management  Treatment Planning/Business Planning  Family System/System of Care – parallels and differences.  The Supervision/Leadership Continuum:  Front Line/Bottom Line  Job Development/Agency Development  Clinical Risk/Corporate Risk  Some Thoughts About Aggression.

6.  Your client and you  You and your Department  Your Department and your Agency  Your Agency and your Community.  Your Community and beyond.

7.  Following your own timeline  Job Role or Life Role? On surrendering your professional identity.  The Expert Trap: On being mentored when you (think) you already know everything.  The Expert Trap II: On leading people who (think) they know more than you do.

8.  After you have made the leap:  Your new staff  Your new peers  Your new boss(es)

9.  Who’s my Boss now? On working with a Board of Directors.  But that happened twenty years ago! On dealing with legacies.  Can you comment on that? On working with the media.  What is that you want? On working with elected officials.  Where’s my seat at the table? On working with advocates.

10.  “When the Sage governs, the people are hardly aware that s/he exists. Next best is a leader who is loved. Next, one who is feared. The worst is one who is despised…the sage doesn’t talk, s/he acts. When the work is done, the people say, ‘Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves’”.  - Tao Te Ching

11.  Kouzes, J. and Posner, B. (2007) The Leadership Challenge (Wiley; New York)  Senge, Peter (1990) The Fifth Discipline (Doubleday; New York)  Studer, Quint (2009) Straight A Leadership (Gulf Breeze; Florida)  Mitchell, S. (translator) (1988) Tao Te Ching (Harper Row; New York)