Information for Journalists and the Media about Don Blohowiak, Leadership and Workplace Expert

Examples of expertise recently provided to major news media:

* Perspective on restoring corporate credibility following notorious ethics scandals (Reuters magazine; interview transcript)

* Advice for small company managers who need to hire older, and very young, workers. (Entrepreneur magazine)

* Tips for managers on how to get the best return from an investment in employee training (Selling Power magazine)

* Suggestions on how to be a more effective boss (Financial Woman Today)

* Comments and advice for managers trying to select good customer services workers (CFYI Radio, Toronto)

   * Perspectives on the increasing pressure in today's workplace (Newark Star Ledger)

   * Insights concerning employee motivation challenges during major corporate changes (Kansas City Star)

    *Advice on how you can deal with ethical challenges in your workplace (KGAB Radio, Cheyenne)

*Comments on the difficulties of hiring great customer service people (Office Solutions magazine)

* Tips for staying honest in employment applications and interviews (KFAB Radio, Omaha)

Timely Business Insights

For Don Blohowiak's current thinking about today's business world, visit his blog for BNET.com, Leadership. Now. It's updated virtually every business day with perspective and helpful advice for managers.
For a comprehensive overview of his perspective, read the transcript of his interview with Reuters magazine for an article published in November 2002. The interview covers many of today's searing business topics: CEO pay, restoring investor confidence, corporate governance, balancing the interests of employees and shareholders, and many other management hot potatoes.

Sample Business and Workplace Topics
for which We Can Offer
Informed Quotable Copy

NOTE: This list is NOT exhaustive but gives you an idea of
the type of questions we have fielded for working journalists on deadline.

Business Issue

Sample Questions

Recruiting, Hiring and
Retaining Good Employees

What big mistakes do employers make when recruiting and hiring new employees?
Can you find good help these days?
How can small businesses compete for competent employees?
How do you keep employees from leaving your company?
What is the role of loyalty in today's workplace?

Motivating "Generation X" Employees

What are the differences in the work ethics of older and younger workers?
How do you manage employees from the "entertain me" generation?

Productivity in today's Workplace

What are the implications of everyone having too much to do in their jobs and not enough time to do it?
Why does teamwork fail in so many businesses?
With more responsibility placed on front-line employees, what is the role of an effective boss these days?
Does the personality of a boss really make any difference to a workplace?
How does radical change such as downsizing, restructuring, mergers and the like impact on productivity? What can managers and employees do about such circumstances?
What difference does corporate culture really make?

Life vs. Livelihood™ Conflicts

Why is the idea of "balance" between work and home a false one?
What can employees do to combat the unreasonable work burdens that technology can place on them?
What can employees do to lower their work-related stresses?

Knowledge and Service
Workforce Issues

How do you select people who will be effective in a service environment?
What can an organization do to tweak productivity in jobs that require thinking and creativity?
How can a manager adequately assess the performance of knowledge and service workers?
How can a boss motivate employees to innovate more and serve customers better?

Media Credits Include . . .

Television

Picture of Don Blohowiak appearing Live on CNBC to disucss hiring issues

Fox & Friends, Fox News Channel
Power Lunch, CNBC
Who's In Charge? with Lou Dobbs, CNNfn
Today's Business, CNBC
Bloomberg Small Business, USA Network
Before the Bell, CNBC
In-Depth, NBC's America's Talking Network
Lead Your Staff, Continuing Education Video for Society for Human Resource Management
Managing Change in Radiology, TIP-TV, GE
Good Day New York, Fox TV, New York City
Wake Up America, America's Talking
Just in Time, CNNfn
This Morning's Business, FNN

Print

Across the Board
A.S.A.P.
Amtrak Express
Association Executive
Association Management
Booklist
Briefings
Business Horizons
Chicago Tribune
Communication Briefings
Competitive Advantage
ComputerWorld
Copley News Service
Denver Post
Detroit News
Entrepreneur magazine
Executive Strategies
Executive Female
Financial Woman Today
Gannett News Service
Houston Business Journal
HR Focus [American Management Association]
HR Magazine
Industry Week [Top 10 books list]
Investors Business Daily
Kansas City Star
Library Journal
Meetings California and the West
Miami Herald
National Law Journal
National Productivity Review
Newhouse News Service
New Orleans Times Picayune
New Paradigm Digest
New York Times
Office Solutions magazine
Philadelphia Business Journal
Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine
Portland (Maine) Press Herald
Princeton Business Journal
Princeton Packet
The Pryor Report
Quality Digest
Reuters Magazine
Scripps Howard News Service
Selling Power
Small Business Reports [AMA]
The Times (Trenton, NJ)
Today's Supervisor
USA Today
UPI
US 1
Vitality
Wall Street Journal
Women in Business
Working Smart

Radio

ABC Radio Network
Voice of America [worldwide]
USA Today Sky Radio
Sony's Success Radio Network
The American Entrepreneur [syndicated]
Associated Press Radio Network
Success Stories [syndicated]
Albany, NY [WGY]
Atlanta [WGCG]
Battle Creek, MI [WBCK]
Burlington, VT [WKDR]
Business Radio Network
Charlotte, NC [WBT]
Chicago [WKRS]
Columbia, MO [KFRU]
Dallas [KRLD, KTCK; KZPS]
Dayton, OH [WHIO]
Des Moines [WHO]
Fargo, ND [KFGO]
Fort Myers/Naples, FL [WNOG]
Hartford, CT [WDRC]
Honolulu [KGU]
Independent Broadcasting Network
Milwaukee [WZTR]
New York City [WXRK; WEVD]
Omaha, NE [KFAB]
Palm Beach, FL [WJNO]
Phoenix [KFNN]
Pittsburgh [WDSY]
Portland, ME [WGAN]
San Diego [KCEO]
State College, PA [WRSC]
Toronto [CFYI]
Tulsa, OK [KTRT]
Washington, DC [WBZS, WPGC]
Worcester, MA [WORC]

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