Workers and managers tend to be too busy and somewhat disengaged from connecting with each other in today’s workplaces.

For the past 30 years, we have been playing with various Square Wheel® images around people and performance. And a number of people, including myself, have commented on Hakan Forss’ reframe of the Square Wheels theme into LEGO. His works were what actually got me moving from the black and while line art that we have been using since 1993 into representing scenes and situations with LEGO characters. Let me note that in 2022, we moved again from LEGO to colored artworks. (Continuous continuous improvement!)

Joan was playing with a new newsletter and we just took a bunch of new pictures. I then imported into powerpoint to add some conversational bubbles and we now have two versions around the workplace issues of being both too busy and somewhat distanced from reality.

For many wagon pullers, they work hard but are not always really connected to the work at hand.

YOUR thoughts on which illustration you like best would be really neat to see. (Joan says I say, “Really?” too much, to which I generally say, “Really?”)

And my more preferred version, which in my view of things, represents a pretty common reality about thing seem to work in most organizations:

And then there is this one, using our new colored images:

Which of these do YOU like more?

And how might this really reflect reality in your workplace?

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For the FUN of It!

Dr. Scott Simmerman is a designer of team building games and organization improvement tools.
Managing Partner of Performance Management Company since 1984, he is an experienced presenter and consultant who is trying to retire!! He now lives in Cuenca, Ecuador.

You can reach Scott at scott@squarewheels.com

Learn more about Scott at his LinkedIn site.

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