Leadership Articles by Don Blohowiak

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Getting to Know Your New (or Old) Staff Listening & Seeking Input   "When you take over a new department, how do you get up to speed with all your new staff?," a client recently asked. Full Text

Conversations—Not Edicts—Propel Change Efforts Listening & Seeking Input   The incessant cliche claims that "people resist change." But pull back the curtain on this over-worn folk phrase and you'll find much more revealing and instructive truths. Full Text

Poll Vault: The Most Important Question In An Employee Survey Listening & Seeking Input   Here's the most important question you must ask when preparing a survey of your employees. And it's one that you'll never include in the actual survey. Full Text

Review: Ideas Are Free Listening & Seeking Input   In a stalled but still fiercely competitive economy, organizations need to turn on the innovation spigot for a flood of business creativity -- by everyone on the payroll. In answering that call to arms, Professors Alan G. Robinson & Dean M. Schroeder offer some worthwhile and occasionally surprising and compelling contributions in their new book Ideas Are Free. Full Text

At This Time Listening & Seeking Input   Sticking to a course that is no longer relevant in today's world for the sake of consistency, or the appearance of commitment, is no virtue. Expect to experience -- and make -- shifts in direction, changes of heart, and even dramatic 180-degree turns. Full Text

Learning v. Advocating Listening & Seeking Input   Many conversations and meetings turn counterproductive, even ugly, because they are not-so-subtle contests of power and will. The focus is on winning instead of learning. And that is a choice you make. Full Text

Beware Corporate Turtling Listening & Seeking Input   Competent, even very powerful, people sometimes withdraw from their responsibility to stand up, speak up, and tell truth to power. And nothing good comes from that. Full Text

The Box Listening & Seeking Input   The trite "think outside the box" commandment confuses many people. If you're looking for fresh thinking, there's a better way to get it. Full Text

Artfully Rethinking Leadership Listening & Seeking Input   So much business literature is mind-numbingly and illogically recursive, suggesting that breakthroughs for your business will stem from imitating the techniques of other business people.  In his new book, consultant and coach Dick Richards provides lessons from leaders operating outside of corporations: in not-for-profits, the arts, sports, religion, education, government... Leaders succeed, he suggests, when they secure follower commitment by working on, if not mastering, ten competencies in four interrelated domains... Full Text

Getting Your Message Out Listening & Seeking Input   In today's communication-clogged environment, one-way disseminations -- regardless of their merit -- reach blinder eyes and deafer ears. So how do you "get your message out"? Full Text

Know someone with breast cancer? Listening & Seeking Input   Breast cancer patients and their loved ones are invited to share their experiences and perspectives as part of the research for a forthcoming book: The Guy's Guide to Female Breast Cancer: A Practical Manual for the Husband, Lover, Father, Brother, Son or Friend of a Woman with Breast Cancer. The ... Full Text

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