December 3ML Briefcase

ARTICLES for LEADERSHIP

Below you will find summaries from the unique 3ML Briefcase. Over the first 2 weeks of every month, summaries for all 32 articles appearing in the current month’s online magazine are presented. Articles rotate every day with 4 new articles appearing in the respective subject areas (leadership, business and management, marketing and productivity). Click here to go to the 3 Minute Learning home page.
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An Introduction to Value Science
Julie Fuimano, MBA, BSN, RN, CSAC

You have thousands of thoughts that float through your mind all day, every day. How do you sort through them all to determine which thoughts are good ones? How do you detach from your thoughts and learn new ways of thinking? How do you even know which thoughts need changing?

Leadership: Are You Giving Back?
Rick Johnson

We often talk about coaching and mentoring being key ingredients to effective leadership. Two thoughts come to my mind every time I hear the words coach and mentor. My first thought is that it is very rare for any organization to provide actual training on how to coach or mentor employees. It is often up to the individual as a leader to figure that out. My second thought is the realization that most of our actions toward our employees come naturally as a result of the kind of leadership model we have personally created.

Make Your Meetings More Productive
Kent Jacobson

We all dread the meeting invitation, not because of the content but because a majority of meetings we have to attend are so poorly run. You know a good productive meeting vs. the unstructured, why am I here, one. You have the ability to hold a productive meeting and influence a poorly run meeting headed in the right direction by implementing a basic strategy.

Recognizing the Reasons We Procrastinate
Lynn Powers

Let's face it. There are certain aspects of our business that we dislike. For you, it might be making cold calls, bookkeeping or brainstorming creative ideas. But regardless of the tasks we'd like to avoid, they are most likely things that will need to be done at some point.

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