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. Don provides customized programs and consulting on: Leadership, Change, Hiring, Creating a Culture of Service, Workplace Effectiveness (including Teamwork), and Priorities Management.

Don is the author of six 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.

Don is the founder and editor of "The Productive Leader" newsletter published by The Economics Press. He is also publisher of The Leader's Letter (an electronic newsletter on leadership and management productivity), and a contributor to The Panel of Experts for First-Rate Customer Service published by The Economics Press.

Don is frequently quoted by the news media regarding employee motivation, productivity, and marketing success strategies. He has been honored by his industry peers as the "Creative Marketer of the Year."

Creating truly customized presentations, Don employs a specific, defined preparation process which includes extensive research and interviews, and online surveys.

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.

MOST REQUESTED 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.

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.

Attracting, Selecting, and Retaining Highly Productive Employees: The Natural Selection Hiring Method
Outcomes: Participants in this interactive workshop develop skills to hire much better. Because "personality is competence" today, attendees learn to assess applicants for a great fit with a position's unique responsibilities and temperament, as well as the company's distinct culture. In discussions, position profiling, and simulations, participants learn dozens of unusually effective tactics to select high-performance people and receive very information-rich handouts with interview questions, an overview of applicable law, and reference checking script.

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.

Creating a Culture that Creates Loyal Customers: The Leadership Difference
Outcomes: Participants learn how to make Customer Loyalty the competitive differentiator to help your company stand apart from all competitors.

Topics include: Creating a Culture of Loyalty in your organization; Strengthening Emotional Bonds: Employees to Your Company, Customers to Your Company; The Success Triad: Quality, Teamwork & Customer Satisfaction; Surviving your customer's "Instants of Absolute Judgment; Creating profitable loyalty at little, maybe even no additional cost; Hiring service-minded people who make all the difference; Motivating employees for meaningful and memorable performance; and much, much more!