Dana Borowka, MA, CEO of Lighthouse Consulting Services, LLC has over 25 years experience in the area of business consulting and helping organizations both nationally and internationally in raising the hiring bar in “bringing effective insight” to organizations through using work style and in-depth personality assessments.  Dana is a nationally renowned speaker, radio and TV personality on this topic and has built a well recognized organization that provides expert interpretation of in-depth personality assessments during the hiring process and staff development, workshops and assists those with communication challenges.  He is a co-author of soon to be released book, “Cracking the Personality Code”.

• SHRM Mississippi State Conference - Key Note Speaker
• California Bankers Association
• Folio Show—New York
• Independent Bankers Association of Texas
• Institute of Scrap & Recycling (ISRI)
• John Hancock
• Casting Industry Suppliers Association
• Latin American Agents Association
• Latin American Agents Association National Convention
• Loyola Marymount University School of Business
• Northwest Public Power Association—Work Force Development Conference
• PIHRA—Affiliate of Society for Human Resources Management
• Renaissance Executive Forum
• UCLA Anderson School of Business
• Vistage International—Resource Speaker since 1997

• Learn how to train managers and supervisors on what fuels communication
• Methods of how to deal with communication challenges
• Develop action plans for hiring and retaining top talent
• Create mentoring plans
• How stress interferes with the bottom line

• Retain your "A" and "B" players
• Develop a loyalty and retention strategy
• Assist your "C" players on how to become "C+" members of the team
• Hands-on mapping exercises for development, training and succession planning
• Various tools for attraction, retention and building loyalty

• Create loyalty and retention
• Define the various generations
• Explore specific challenges the participants are facing
• Discuss tools to understand staff members better
• Formulate action steps to implement

• Gain ideas for raising the hiring bar
• Effective methods to reduce the potential for hiring errors
• How to guide managers to supervise the ‘new hire’
• Insight to empathic management and increase retention
• Select and integrate an appropriate personality assessment tool
• How to balance the data collected from the interview, reference checks and personality assessments information

• The appropriate usage of in-depth personality assessments
• At what stage in the hiring process to integrate an assessment tool
• A look at the various tools available and how to differentiate the various products available
• How to balance out information gathered during the interview process, reference checks and work style assessments

• Definition and causes
• The stages of stress
• Psychological impact
• Managing stress in your life
• Tips and exercises