"Flow" is a simple concept that relates challenges to skills, with the understanding that the two...
Performance Management Blog
Ideas on People and Performance, Team Building, Motivation and Innovation
Teamwork, Communications and Optimization of Performance
My friend Lou Carloni has been sharing ideas about people and performance for many years and a...
Psychopaths tend not to “procrastinate or take things personally”
The title comment was a one-liner in a SmartPlanet post by Charlie Osborne entitled: The key to...
What are The Square Wheels Toolkits and why do they work so well?
Since 1993, we have been working with interactive "cartoons" and sharing the related tools as...
Kill The Paperwork – Improve Effectiveness
Who out there among us does not have too much "paperwork" or "paperwork responsibilities?" How can...
Square Wheels – Going Viral on People and Performance
Jonah Berger's recent book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On, is about why things go viral in...
Simplicity – Thoughts of Da Vinci, Einstein, Rockwell and Simmerman
In a blog post "Simple Isn't Simple" by Dan Rockwell, he said: Any fool can create complex....
Favorite Workshop Quotes from Dr. Scott Simmerman – Part One
Over the past 30 years, I have presented a lot of workshops and seminars and have a standard set...
Thoughts on communication – Nothing Made Sense…
A favorite quote is from Joseph Heller, author of the book, Catch 22. In the first couple of pages...
Performance Feedback – Breakfast of Champions!
Feedback is a real key to intrinsic motivation and performance management. And most organizations...
Managing The Mavericks – Caring for the High Maintenance Employee
Lisa Woods penned a really great article on managing the people who are the atypical and hard to...
Rewarding High Performance in The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine teambuilding game
Managers do not often deal with good performers in effective ways. Relying on extrinsic rewards is...