Waching daily Nov 6 2018

- Hey, good morning everyone.

It's Zoey with The Therapist Leader.

Today is day three of Leadership is Me

and as I was thinking about

what I wanted to talk about today,

I was thinking about the why.

The why behind it for us,

you know the why of why we have therapists,

the why of why we're managers,

and the why of leadership.

I was thinking like what are the things

that I'm most passionate about

in the mental health field and in business.

And for me, it's developing other people.

And yet, it's developing other people,

and I was thinking what keeps me in that mindset?

What keeps me in the mindset that

what if you develop other people and they go away.

What if you develop other people

and they are better than you?

What if you develop other people

and they leave your group practice?

And so that's kind of what I was thinking

about talking about today.

And so the why for me is really,

I mean like I said, it's developing people.

Like I love, love, love to see therapists succeed

in their clinical work and in their business life.

And I love therapists who are able to kind of go

within themselves to look at barriers.

Hey Megan!

And to overcome those barriers

and become the best clinician that they wanna be,

to become the best business person that they wanna be.

There's something about taking someone from maybe

where they don't believe in themselves

or they doubt their clinical skills

or they doubt their business skills

and helping them transcend that and become confident

therapists and become confident business owners

and entrepreneurs and leaders and managers.

There's just something in it that is

just intoxicating to me.

I love case conceptualization, I love looking

at systems, I love looking at how to

get people from A to B and hopefully to Z.

And that's what really makes me passionate about

being a therapist and about being a supervisor

and a clinical supervisor and a manager

and those types of things,

beyond even my clinical work with clients.

If I could sit and do coaching and consultation

and supervision all of my days I would be a happy camper.

And so with that it brings up to mind kind of some of the,

the mindset that you have to have to be in that place

because there might be supervisees or people

who come into your group as employees

who might transcend you, clinically speaking,

as a business owner.

If you have a group practice and you have a clinician

that comes in, they might leave and go create

their own practice, and maybe use some of the things

that they learned within your practice

to build a successful practice and I think our fear

is that it would be more.

And I think you really have to have an abundant mindset.

I think you really have to love developing people so much

and love seeing other clinicians succeed

that you're not threatened by that.

That you know that the field is better for it

and you know that that person is better for it

and you know that clients are better for it too.

And you have to think about the fact that

these are potential referral sources for you in the future.

These are potential places where they would say,

you know what, to get your practice started,

you have to go and work for Zoey.

Like she will get you set up to be able

to launch into your own practice, it's so worth it.

You know, to be able to have that abundant mindset,

be able to kind of think positively about it,

I think only brings back to you abundance and positivity

and only can make your business grow bigger

and cast a wider net and make a bigger difference.

The non-compete clause, you know a lot

of group practitioners have that and I don't pretend to know

all the reasons why that should be in place

or why it shouldn't be in place but I know

for myself it would be never something that I would do.

I don't care if you compete with me

because I don't think that we're on opposite sides.

I think we're on the same team

and I think we're trying to make a difference

in the lives of people and I think we're trying to

have success and we're trying to have abundance

and we're trying to kind of make

our lifestyles that way that we want it

and I think we're better together, doing that together

and helping each other feed those things off

even if it's next door.

Even if you take all your clients,

like I just believe that there's more out there

and I believe that having that mindset

is so much more important than having that scarcity

mindset and that competitive mindset

and like what if and what if and what if.

So in my own, with my own supervisees

and in my own group practice and in something

that I'm gonna be moving into in my own group practices

that if you wanna come in and you're telling me

that you wanna leave in order to create

your own practice, then let's make that a part of your goal.

Let's make that a part of the goals

that you wanna accomplish while you're underneath

my leadership and while you're underneath my management.

Like let's help you get there, you know.

And obviously you've built that into the price

and compensate for your time, you know

maybe you take an extra percentage or maybe you add on

kind of a consultancy, whatever it might be,

but like if that's your goal, I wanna help you get there.

I wanna help you build a successful practice

that you wanna build and I want us to be on the same team

and make better practices, better clinicians,

better mental health, just a better experience

of our lives and our field and of each other.

I want that community.

So I think you have to be connected to your why

and you have to also be really cognizant of your fears

and really look at your mindset around those fears

and really strive hard to get past the barriers

that that mindset presents to you,

really kind of explore that either through coaching

or consulting and be able to transcend that

and get to the other side where you can believe

that there's abundance out there and that

if you build it they will come.

And that building a really amazing practice

or having a really amazing team that you're managing

people will always want to come and be on that team.

People will always choose to be on that team.

Even as you're helping people actually exit

and go off and do their own thing.

Back in the day, which is this is like three years ago

when I used to manage a large program

in a huge communal mental health agency

in the Los Angeles area in California,

I would have case mangers and I would have LPTs

which is like nurses and I would have therapists,

it was like a multi-disciplinary, psychiatrists,

multi-disciplinary group, and my mission at least

my mission was actually to get rid of staff.

And I mean that by when I had case managers who came

at the bachelor's level, if they wanted to go up

and be a therapist, I wanted to help them

accomplish those goals, I wanted to help

get them ready to apply to graduate school and then to go.

If I had a therapist who was maybe newly licensed

and wanted to become supervisor, even if that meant

in another program, we worked towards that.

I would give them kind of management experiences

within my program and kind of look out

to launch them into other places.

I think it just was like I really tried to get rid of staff

and yeah, did that cause some extra burden for me,

did I cause some extra work for my staff?

Sure, but people wanted to come to work in my program

because they knew that I was interested in them as people

and getting them developed to go off

and do what they wanna do, right.

And I think we all need those people in our lives

and that attracted people to the program

and people wanted to be in it.

So it never, positions weren't ever empty for very long.

And so that's kind of an example of how

I think this mindset kind of operates in the day to day.

So anyway, I feel like I've gone on too long

for a Facebook live, eight minutes.

So that's my shtick for today,

thanks for joining in and watching.

Let me know kind of what you think in the comments

if you feel so led, but I hope you have a really great day

and I will see you tomorrow.