Eliza Farri ended a really good article, "What makes a great executive retreat" (HBR - July 4....
Performance Management Blog
Ideas on People and Performance, Team Building, Motivation and Innovation
Radical Reinvention and Culture Change
The reality of change in big, legacy organizations is that it needs a radical reinvention of how...
The Round Wheels of Change in a Square Wheeled World
Let's face it: Leaders resist change and ideas for improvement. The challenge is to give them some...
Day One of Teambuilding and Strategy for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine
If you are wondering why this blog is specific to Day One of the 20 Days of play occurring in Lost...
What is SUCCESS in team building?
An issue I keep seeing in teambuilding events is a failure to define success in the desired...
Debriefing Team Building Simulations – Some Ideas from Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine
This will outline ideas about debriefing team building simulations and activities more effectively...
Is Firewalking incompatible with real teambuilding?
Firewalking. Does it work for teambuilding? Quick answer: NO. Firewalking is certainly an...
Outdoor Training is Suboptimal for Learning and Change
Before undertaking a training event, especially an outdoor training event, for building teamwork...
Teambuilding and Collaboration – What does Lost Dutchman do?
A new connection on LinkedIn asked me a simple question and I realize that I have not actually...
Meat. A Funny Story about Reality
I first saw this back around 1995 and put it up as a blog post in 2013, republishing today. I...
Change is Good. You Go First!
Years ago, I read the title of this in The Dilbert Principles, and the phrase has stuck with me as...
Make Spring Forward Monday a Day for More Engagement
Spring Forward Monday®- Choose to help everyone Spring Forward! Our original thinking was that...