Donald Minnick

Bio

Donald Minnick has provided organization consulting, leadership development, team facilitation, change management, and training design and delivery to organizations for over 25 years. With a broad background in individual, organization/system dynamics, he has served as an internal organizational development professional as well as an external consultant, partnering with internal change agents in a variety of organizations. Don has designed and managed organizational development and training programs for major international corporations and led in the design and delivery of programs for international branches of American corporations in Europe and Asia. He currently works nationally and internationally with organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies to small entrepreneurial start-ups working across a broad range of industries from high-tech and engineering, to manufacturing, to public service and education, to professional service organizations such as architects, physicians, engineers and research scientists.

Interpersonal Skills Laboratory focuses on helping individuals and organizations to excel in highly competitive environments and to emerge as industry leaders. The group is an affiliation of highly expert organizational consultants with extensive knowledge of individual and system dynamics who have experience in making complex organizational issues understandable and usable (workable) in your specific environment.

Specialties:

• Development of leadership assessment protocols
• 360-degree feedback procedures
• Training and work-conference design and facilitation
• Executive coaching anchored by survey-feedback data
• Change management
• Retiring executive knowledge capture’

News

• Advance Praise Survive Downsizing (341)
• February 6: “The Secret to Successful Change Management: Transforming Resistance into Engagement”; MBA Professional Development Seminar-McCoy School of Business Administration
• February 25: “How to Be Indispensable in Your Company”; On-line training program through Media Briefings group www.workplacetrainingcenter.com
• Advertising Age: Do You Have What it Takes to Dodge Layoffs?
• December 7-8: “Think-One-Team” program training; Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY
• December 10:  “Oracles and Moles: How to manage key performers across the knowing-doing gap”  (Presentation to a joint meeting of the Agile Project Leadership Network-Houston and Project Management Leadership group-Houston at Sysco Corporate offices, Houston http://aplnhouston20091210.eventbrite.com/
• January 7, 2010: “How to Survive Downsizing and Become Indispensable to Your Organization”; On-line training program through Media Briefings group www.workplacetrainingcenter.com

Publications

• How I met the Organization Survivor
• Applications of the Organization Survivor Model
• Be Indispensable!
• Author Interview
• We Revisit the Organization Survivor
• Survivor Tip – Taking Personal Initiative
• Survivor Tip – Developing the Capacity for Collaboration
• Survivor Tip – Be a Detective in Your Organization
• Survivor Tip: The Mozart Effect
• Survivor Tip: Initiate for the Plumb Assignments
• Survivor Tip: Leverage Your Organization’s Learning

Print Media & White Papers:

• Houston Chronicle Article
• White Paper: Conversation as the New Work Style
• White Paper: Is Success A Matter of Luck…
• White Paper: Mental Agility
• White Paper: Survival Instincts
• White Paper: What Is Your Organization’s “Irving?”

Experience

• Principal – Interpersonal Skills Laboratory, LLC

  (Management Consulting industry)

• Adjunct Professor – McCoy School of Business Administration at Texas State University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  Adjunct professor in the McCoy School of Business Administration in organization behavior and change and organization development.

• Adjunct Professor – University of Houston at Clear Lake

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  Adjunct professor in the business school teaching organization development and behavior and change management.

Education

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