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Leadership Skills Development

For Managers, Consultants, Leaders:

PowerPoint Presentations
Leadership and Team Building

The best leaders involve, engage and enlist people in the journey forward by clarifying missions and goals and work to ensure that expectations are known. Below are our leadership products that are designed around our Square Wheels® illustrations and support this belief.

Available Products - PowerPoint Presentations

Square Wheels® Facilitation Bundle

An easy-to-use basic tool for anyone wanting to practice facilitating skills.

As a facilitator, your goal is to engage thinking and creativity and, with this bundle, you'll use the clout of the Square Wheels® One illustration and a Facilitation Guide to assist you in the process of addressing organizational development issues.

The Square Wheels® Facilitation Bundle is based on the Square Wheels One illustration that has proven itself to be a powerful tool that sets up an interactive, participative approach promoting learning and perspective with unlimited applications. It pushes people to "step back from the wagon" and disclose their views about how things are working, engage each other in a creative discovery process and use the diversity of ideas and perspective to generate thinking, innovation and communications.

Things that need to be fixed become Square Wheels and the Round Wheel ideas can be readily created. Gaps that are opened become motivational pressures for change and improvement. The language of Square Wheels is one of "*continuous continuous improvement..." (* from The Department of Redundancy Department)

Included in the Bundle are:

Facilitation Tips and Ideas for using the Square Wheels® tool
More than 50 powerpoint slides to help you facilitate a discussion about issues and opportunities in your organization (customizable)
Square Wheels One illustration (in PowerPoint)
Square Wheels One illustration and 4 related handout/worksheets
A + slide presentation on the Dot Voting process (for involvement and consensus) (in PowerPoint)

A Square Wheels® Facilitation Bundle, Asian Version is available that is the same as the original version except that the characters in the illustrations are more Asian in appearance.

Square Wheels® One has been used worldwide since 1993 and generates group involvement, humor and enthusiasm due to the viewpoints gained. You'll find it easy to use, virtually bombproof and a great facilitation tool for individual and organizational improvement.

Square Wheels® Facilitation Bundle -- $34.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Square Wheels Facilitation Bundle, Asian Version -- $34.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Information Sorting Styles Toolkit Bundle

Sorting Styles focuses on patterns of thinking about problems and builds self-awareness of how one prefers to consider problems. This easy to explain and to use toolkit allows people to consider their preferred patterns of thinking and identify better ways of problem solving.

This toolkit uses Information Sorting Styles as a way of helping people understand how they think and how they might better use their preferred patterns of thinking to work more effectively. It's easy to explain and simple to use and leads to better ways of problem solving. Different in structure than Ed DeBono's "Six Thinking Hats" process but along the same clean lines, Sorting Styles focuses on patterns of thinking about problems and builds self-awareness of how one prefers to consider problems.

Included in this bundle are:

A PowerPoint presentation that describes the different styles and
offers exercises for classroom use
Two workbooks and a worksheet
A summary matrix

You'll appreciate its simplicity and effectiveness in application. Developed in collaboration with NLP Trainer Jon Linder, this is an uncomplicated but powerful tool for improving organizational performance.

Information Sorting Styles Toolkit Bundle -- $19.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Mission Statement Development Exercise Bundle

This is a valuable and proven set of tools for generating alignment and congruence among a workgroup.

Since 1984, Scott Simmerman has used the tools in this bundle to get groups of people focusing on the issues and values of their organization and working to create effective mission and vision statements. It is fast and neat.

The bundle contains:

The materials from the Square Wheels® One Icebreaker Bundle
Scott Simmerman's Fast Networking Framework
An exercise designed to elicit, within 30 minutes or so, the main themes and values of the participants in such a way that they can create and discuss and then generate a working mission statement
PowerPoint and other documents
The simple yet effective "Goose" joke framework

Mission Statement Development Exercise Bundle - $24.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Square Wheels® Roadblocks Management Bundle

A better flow of energy and attitude regarding one's work is an outcome of this program.

The Roadblocks Bundle is designed for the manager and uses the basic Square Wheels® facilitation ideas as groundwork for generating group problem solving as well as peer pressure for performance improvement.

The Roadblocks Management Bundle introduces the Square Wheels® concept and focuses on a process that helps people define exactly what can be done to remove the "roadblocks" that get in the way of their success or personal improvement on the job. This is done through a model that describes roadblocks and offers solutions for effectively managing them.

It's designed for any manager to use and is packaged with an adaptable PowerPoint presentation with about 40 slides containing:

Square Wheels® One illustration and facilitation
The Roadblocks Model and facilitation
Worksheets and handouts for participants
A variety of instructional materials

A better flow of energy and attitude regarding one's work is an outcome of this program. Square Wheels®; illustrations have engaged audiences worldwide for over 14 years.

Square Wheels® Roadblocks Management Bundle -- $49.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Square Wheels® Organizational Alignment Bundle

This is a package of slides, worksheets, exercises and Square Wheels® illustrations that focuses on the issue of missions and visions and the overall issue of communicating goals to groups of all kinds.

The Organizational Alignment Bundle contains a variety of Square Wheels® tools and all the materials in our Square Wheels® Facilitation Bundle plus adding a series of our best cartoons on alignment. Among these are the eloquent "View from the Front" and "View from the Back" illustrations and the Organizational Chart series as well as the Wagon Train series of illustrations. You will find this selection of Square Wheels® cartoons to be a very useful tool for your communication efforts.

The bundle also contains Scott Simmerman's Mission Development Exercise and supporting materials that help develop workgroup congruence. This is a stand-alone program focused on using a facilitated "Fast Networking" activity to generate common values and themes.

These materials can also be used in X-Team type developmental efforts, since they can easily be focused on externally-driven team building efforts.

Square Wheels® Organizational Alignment Bundle - $99.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Square Wheels® "Nobody Washes a Rental Car" Motivation Bundle

This is the best price for a complete Square Wheels® presentation. It contains the material used by Scott Simmerman, the Square Wheels® creator, in a recent 102-slide 90-minute interactive presentation in Egypt that received rave reviews.

This presentation bundle, "Nobody Washes a Rental Car," was developed from Scott Simmerman's two presentations at the Arab Society of Human Resource Management (ASHRM) in Egypt in February 2008.

It contains mostly Asian but also regular versions of some key slides as well as 35 supplemental slides for a total of 142 slides in all. The presentation was titled "Nobody Ever Washes a Rental Car" and was focused on what leaders can do to better manage human capital for improved motivation and performance. Materials contain presentation notes, worksheets, frameworks and ideas. It is a complete PowerPoint presentation.

Square Wheels® "Nobody Washes a Rental Car" Motivation Bundle - $99.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Square Wheels®-Coaching Improved Performance Bundle

This package, designed as a performance support to managers or trainers, uses the "projective nature" of our Square Wheels® images to generate arms-length perspective on performance.

The Square Wheels® of Coaching Improved Performance Bundle anchors to the ability of the Square Wheels® cartoons to function as a projection tool, much like an inkblot or Rorschach Test in that people project their beliefs onto the images. Through this mechanism, one can easily elicit client ideas, on an individual and group basis, and then generate powerful discussions focused less on the emotional aspects of coaching and more on the desired future state that can result.

This focus on the desired future state is a powerful tool that produces positive thinking and centers on dealing with the discomfort of making changes in light of future rewards.

This package, designed as a performance support to managers or trainers, uses the "projective nature" of our images to generate arms-length perspective on performance. The bundle includes a variety of tools for assisting individuals and groups in any improvement process. It will help you better plan a discussion and give you a solid framework for coaching and gaining the other person's active participation and involvement.

Included are:

Our powerful Square Wheels® illustrations
A complete PowerPoint presentation
Supportive Acrobat documents for coaching steps and background

Designed as a communications improvement toolkit to be used alone or in conjunction with other coaching tools.

Square Wheels®-Coaching Improved Performance Bundle - $99.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Square Wheels® Manager as Motivator Bundle

Square Wheels® Manager as Motivator Bundle This is a complete PowerPoint-based toolkit on generating involvement and motivation, designed for trainers as well as managers.

We believe that optimally effective managers best benefit the organization by generating active involvement with employees and demonstrate support for improvement. This involvement can be seen in problem identification, innovation and process improvement as well as in general quality of work and overall productivity.

The bundle of tools includes a variety of illustrations and worksheets designed to involve and engage. It can be easily used in:

leadership development training
programs focused on productivity improvement and
general facilitation skills

It includes over 200 slides and presentation notes, a series of Square Wheels® illustrations, worksheets, etc. that can be used to involve and engage work teams as well as serve as a basic framework on issues of implementation. A complete set of ideas and instructions for facilitation is included.

Good for the experienced trainer as well as the new manager and can be readily incorporated into leadership development programs.

Square Wheels® Manager as Motivator Bundle -- $299.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Square Wheels® PowerPoint Toolkit on Managing and Leading Change

You can use it as a major program for a half or full day workshop, conference or training event. A unique and profound program that receives high accolades from users!

This is an interactive, humorous, thought provoking and inspiring program. It's a complete presentation that includes the speaking notes of Scott Simmerman, the creator of Square Wheels® and it contains over 120 slides (consisting of factoids, one-liners, quotes and illustrations), worksheets and exercises focusing on change management and an overall focus on the theme of "individual choice."

Square Wheels® PowerPoint Toolkit on Managing and
Leading Change -- $299.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Available Products - Leadership and Team Building
Our Team Building exercises also include aspects of leadership as described below

The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine

In The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine, the specific defined role of the Expedition Leader is, "To help teams be successful." Our exercises are designed with the benefit of being able to include this message of support in the debriefings.

The Collaboration Journey

Our new Square Wheels® Game, "The Collaboration Journey," is a 90-minute exercise that allows for strategic planning and decision-making links along with themes of collaboration and communications. Each person is individually accountable for managing a wagon but the group results depend on the level of overall collaboration.