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Don Blohowiak
Don Blohowiak , former Fortune 500 exec & author of 6 mgt books, teaches people how to Lead Well.
About Don Blohowiak:

Don Blohowiak has held executive management posts in South California, Milwaukee, Denver, Detroit, and New York City with Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and not-for-profits.

He assists a wide variety of organizations to successfully improve performance and productivity. A certified executive coach, credentialed by the International Coach Federation, Don holds a graduate certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University, and a Masters Degree in Organizational Systems. He is completing his PhD in Human Development, building on the work of Abraham Maslow.

Don is the author of several renowned management books which are distributed around the world. Honors include being named "One of the Top 10 Management Books of the Year" by Industry Week, numerous executive endorsements, and translations into Chinese, German, Portuguese, and Hebrew. He's also written several chapters and hundreds of articles on leadership, change, and professional development.

Don is frequently quoted by the news media regarding employee motivation and productivity.

Don employs a specific, defined preparation process for his presentations which includes extensive research and interviews.

During his dynamic presentations, he integrates audience involvement, humor, fresh insights, and take-home tools for immediate application. As a value-added service, Don assists with conference and program design and planning for a superb event at no additional charge.

RECOMMENDED PROGRAMS

Lead Others to Greatness... What Managers and Professionals Do to Lead Well
Outcomes: This intense, interactive experience (based on revealing research and real world examples) arms managers with both the understanding and tools to get their staff to out-think and out-work competitors while working smarter, harder, and happier. This program is both values and behavior-oriented. It is not hero stories and philosophy. Rather, it focuses on what an individual can do to be a more effective leader, and concludes with participants making a signed commitment to undertake specific leadership actions-while still being true to who they really are.

Leading by Enquiry: How to Coach and Mentor for Great Results
Outcomes: Participants learn how to "Lead by enquiry" -- the most engaging form of leadership. Done well, leading by asking rather than telling evokes imagination, participation, and complete commitment of your team members to their highest level of production and achievement. This session, led by a dynamic former manager, certified executive coach and mentoring specialist, focuses on the actual processes you can use to coach and mentor associates effectively. You will learn a simple six-step process to address both matters of skill improvement and attitude adjustment in the workplace. Participants leave with a complete toolkit including a step-by-step process diagram, and an entire bank of ready-to-use questions they can put to work immediately in effective coaching sessions to improve team member performance, address attitude challenges, and mentor associates for career development.

With Integrity
Outcomes: Through interactive discussions, participants come to appreciate that “ethical” is colored in many fuzzy shades of gray. They learn fundamental guiding principles to conduct themselves on the job so that they stay firmly on the right side of the ethical line. Participants in this workshop receive a helpful framework for personal decision-making to help them work ethically and make decisions -- easy and hard --  with integrity. Take-home tools include questions to ask to clarify a situation's ethical standing, and specific guidelines for how to talk openly and positively about an issue when it enters the ethical "gray zone." Attendees learn processes to help assure that high levels of integrity can be maintained at all times.

Designing the Future ... Strategic Planning Retreats
Outcomes: Specific to Client needs and objectives. Employs an extensive preparatory and follow-up process for identifying key issues for discussion and assuring post-meeting action. At client's option, can include custom attitudinal research with analysis and recommendations for action. Includes Don's best-selling (Amazon.com) special report on how to do Strategy.

Changed? Restructured? Reengineered? ... Here's How to Get the Work Done!
Outcomes: Participants leave with numerous leadership strategies for enabling their staff members to produce more High Value/High-Impact work with greater motivation. Attendees receive a unique evaluation instrument, The Work Priority Clarifier, to assure that they crank-out more work-that-matters and no make-work! Plus, they get the Team Responsibility Matrix to enable clearer communication and team productivity.


Travels from :
VA,US
Main Topics :
Leadership, Coaching, Change, Management, Productivity, Cancer
Specialties :
Associations, Communication
Fee(s) :
$5,000 - $9,999
Awards :