Leadership Articles by Don Blohowiak

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Take Seriously Your Fire Power Selecting Colleagues   Does firing a member of your staff hurt the morale of those who remain? Full Text

Comic Insight: Competence is Circumstantial Selecting Colleagues    The television comedy Scrubs provides a good illustration of competence at work. Full Text

Values @ Work Selecting Colleagues   People whose work aligns best with their highly individualized values are simultaneously the most relaxed and energized. Call it the Paradox of Happy Alignment. What motivates each individual is a mix of various personal values. Here's a list of common motivators. Full Text

Before You Fire Someone… Selecting Colleagues   To make firing a substandard performer as swift, clean, and painless for everyone involved, be sure to follow these ten steps. Full Text

Manifesto for a Revolution Selecting Colleagues   The feelings of your employees influence the feelings of your customers, and that drives their buying behavior and your profits. How do you make that happen? The Gallup Organization has some intriguing ideas for you. Full Text

Engage—and Keep—Your Employees Selecting Colleagues   Veteran consultants Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans wrote a handy, very practical, advisor for pressured, task-based (and, yes, even gruff) managers who are too consumed to always remember—but who know down deep—that people, the engaged and motivated variety, really do make the difference in producing great results. Full Text

Got Volunteers? Selecting Colleagues   If your organization depends on volunteers to lead and do work, you might be interested in sharing your experiences and receiving a report on Volunteer Best Practices. Participate in a confidential survey on attracting, motivating and keeping volunteers. It originated with some of our volunte... Full Text

Brewing Labor Crisis Selecting Colleagues   12 February 2003--A warning from Ira Wolfe, one of the USA's leading workforce experts: Between 2010 and the mid-2020s, 12,480 U.S. baby boomers will leave the workforce--every day. Fifty-one percent of the workforce will be over 70 in 30 years and the number of employees under age 40 is insuffic... Full Text

Slow Economy Masks Employee Commitment Selecting Colleagues   30 January 2003---From Roger E. Herman, lead author of Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People: Recent studies show that 30-40% of employees are already prepared to leave their current employer for new opportunities. They’re just waiting for the economy to pick up, and most of their bosses ... Full Text

Filling the Leadership Pipeline Selecting Colleagues   While 77 percent of major American companies said they had a leadership development process, less than a third of them believed it was effective, according to consulting firm Hewitt Associates cited in Sunday's New York Times."There's an underwhelming level of investment in developing great leaders,... Full Text

Keep the Keepers Selecting Colleagues   Some businesses churn through more than 100% or even 200% of their employee base every year. Others have almost no turnover.What's the right turnover rate for your payroll? Even in notoriously high turnover industries, some operators always manage to have a much lower attrition rate (and much better... Full Text

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