A variety of casual conversations in the past few days have refocused me on the "soft" side of...
business team building exercises
Teamwork and Square Wheels and Implementation
It was a nice surprise to have a customer put up a really nice blog about my Innovate and...
Herding Cats and The Moose Joke: Moving 50 feet further than last year…
It really IS like the EDS commercial years ago about Herding Cats! And it is hard to maintain...
Teambuilding with The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine
We've been selling the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine game for twenty years now and I continue to feel...
The Moose Joke: Scott Simmerman’s Best Closing Storyline for Presentations
Here is what I think is the best closing storyline out there, after attending a whole big bunch of...
The Blame Frame, Innovation and Intrinsic Motivation
In one of my LinkedIn groups, this question was posed: Any advice on how to wisely handle the...
Lost Dutchman – Thoughts about Day One of the exercise
One of my new users ran The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine for the first time and had a...
TeamBuilding – We judge ourselves by our intentions
Inspiration is a weird thing. I was cleaning out a lot of image files last night and earlier today...
Trust is the Residue of Promises Fulfilled – An Update
My friend Frank Navran once quipped that, Trust is the residue of promises fulfilled. and that...
Common Traps when Debriefing – some ideas from Roger Greenaway
Roger Greenaway is a superb facilitator. Even though we have never met, we run in similar loops...
Slideshare Overview of Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine, a team building game
In the past few weeks, people have been asking me for a fast overview of The Search for The Lost...
Dominoes and Dutchman and some thinking on Trust Building
In a Teambuilding group on LinkedIn, I posted up some questions around what activities existed for...
Followup, Followup, Followup — The Only Way to make Improvements
Guilty of it myself, much more often than I would like. We do some training and expect things to...
Annotated Abstracts of Management Team Building articles
Many of my posts are descriptive of ideas for business management team building exercises and...
Team Building and Poems on Performance – Cute Visuals on Collaboration and Goal Setting
Teambuilding is about generating alignment to shared goals and visions and also about involving...