We CAN improve Leadership Effectiveness if we can just get them to do something differently. This...
Performance Management Blog
Ideas on People and Performance, Team Building, Motivation and Innovation
Flying by the seat of your pants – NOT the way to Engaging Employees
In the process of writing a new newsletter on the criticality of supervisors in organizations, I...
Avoiding Deep Vein Thrombosis and Death by Powerpoint
Exciting and Engaging and Large Corporate Event are phrases that are seldom linked together. Put...
Thoughts on Team Building – Cross-Cultural Impacts of Lost Dutchman
The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine really works well cross-culturally and I was reminded...
Thoughts on building a high performance environment – Teamwork and Flow
"Flow" is a simple concept that relates challenges to skills, with the understanding that the two...
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...