Free Articles on Physician Leadership, Career Development and Transition, Entrepreneurial Skills for Doctors

For Physicians Venturing Into Leadership and Management

• Good Leaders Listen With Empathy
• How to Inspire Your Team
• Your Performance Review: How Did You Do?
• Handle Tense Situations the Nonviolent Way
• Get Results by Making Good Requests
• Good Leaders Ask Good Questions
• Professionalism:  TEN common courtesies that count
• Use Empowering Language to Take Personal Responsibility for Your Situation and Your Choices
• Knowing Yourself:  Your Key to Leadership
• Time-Energy Drain: How Does it Happen to You?
• Contemporary Thinking About Courage in Leadership
• Strategic Planning: The No Paper Method
• How Do You Know You’re Ethical?
• The Qualities Followers Want to See in Leaders
• To Achieve Your Vision, Surround Yourself With Personal Champions
• A Leadership Dashboard for Clinical Practice Success
• Physician Leaders on the Front Line: Valerie Moore, MD MBA ~ Using Business Concepts to Engage Physicians
• What Hinders Your Vision?  10 Obstacles to Overcome
• Just Because You’re a Doctor, Doesn’t Mean You’re Professional
• Ten Ideas for Physicians Who Want to Transform Healthcare
• Why Transformation Efforts Fail:  8 Errors to Avoid
• Leaders Transform Healthcare Using Emotional Intelligence
• Balance Intensity with Levity:  Polar Plunging and the Wisdom of Einstein
• Reflections on Hope for Healthcare:  Leaders Create From Chaos
• Let the Power of Myth Inspire Your Professional Journey
• Want to be a leader?  Get Results!
• Effective Leadership Communication:  Take the Reflection Challenge
• Positive versus negative vision:  Which one is your leadership platform?
• To communicate effectively, use the “whole brain”
• Do you Embody the Four Strategies of a Proven Leader?
• Leaders Create Dialogue for Problem Solving
• Transformation, Courage and Leadership:  At the core is Free Will
• Leaders, Make Your Presence Known:  Don’t Be Boring
• Principled Negotiation:  A Method for Win-Win
• Writing for Clarity and Significance:  Keep it clean, Keep it short
• Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?
• Four Popular Myths About Leadership
• Speak Like a Superstar:  Hone Your Skills and Be Authentic
• Leadership and Transformation Require a Taste for Complexity
• The Power of “And”
• Using Intuition in Leadership

For Physicians Planning Career Change or Entrepreneur Transition

• Physician, Tap Into Your Career Potential
• Thinking of Making a Career Transition?  What’s Your Value Proposition to a New Employer?
• Leverage Your Experiences Into Transferable Skills – Parts I, II, II
• What is Your Highest Goal?
• Are You Doing What You Love?
• Is it Time for You to Take a Sabbatical?
• How to Represent (Sell) Yourself Well, Part I
• Professional Transition: Consider the Three Dimensions of Career Fulfillment
• What is Your Value-Add as a Business Consultant?
• How to Make a Good 30-minute Presentation
• Marketing Your Business? Look like you want to succeed
• To MBA or NOT to MBA, that is the question
• Do You Need an MBA? What do you learn in business school anyway?
• The Number One Secret to Getting What You Want:  Tasteful Asking
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective E-Mail Communicators
• Effective Networking:  Make Soul Calls, Not Cold Calls
• Discovering Your Professional Path Through Your Archetype:  Shaman, Warrior, Artist, Chief, Nurturer, Mystic?
• Position Your Services for Strategic Advantage
• Cracking the Code to Your Career
• Is there a Science to Change?
• Creating Work-Life Balance, Part II:  Eliminating Clutter
• Eliminating Clutter:  The Sequel
• Creating Work-Life Balance, Part I:  Establishing Boundaries
• Write Your Way to a New Career
• Listen to Your Heart, Not Your Head, When Deciding Your Path
• Professional and Career Stability:  What does it mean to you?
• Explore new fields by attending specialty conferences
• Transition:  If it’s not scary, you’re not stretching enough!
• Why Care About Values, Passion and Purpose?  Ask the Samurai
• Let Your Business Card Declare Your Intention; and Be Nitpicky
• Some Tips for Residents Contemplating New Directions
• Career Transition as a “Soul Journey”
• What is My Unique Talent Anyway? An Exercise to Try
• Career Transition: Be a Solution to a Business Problem
• Want to Change Careers? Take Time to “I  A M”
• The Science of Happiness
• Is it Even Possible to Find Happiness As a Physician Today?
• Thinking About Becoming an Entrepreneur? 6 Keys to Success
• Business Planning Basics:  Don’t Forget Your Market!
• Forty-one ideas for what you can do as a healthcare consultant
• The Business Plan Executive Summary:  Keep is Simple
• Expand Your Universe by Using News Services
• Business Planning:  Track Your Assumptions
• Entrepreneurs, What’s Your Elevator Pitch?