Leadership Challenges

Learn how behavioral health leaders can move beyond top-down mandates to foster growth through collaborative goal setting and empathetic feedback. Palomarin Consulting explores strategies to avoid common pitfalls like feedback avoidance and rating inflation while building a culture of psychological safety.

As leadership coaches, we often see new leaders struggle with letting go. When you’ve spent your career proving yourself through hard work, it can feel uncomfortable — even risky — to hand work off to someone else. But leadership isn’t about doing more yourself. It’s about getting results through others — and that means learning the art (and discipline) of delegation.

One of the trickiest transitions in behavioral health leadership comes when you’re promoted from within. Yesterday, you were sharing a...