I was reading an article on adapting things like HomeKit and Echo into the way people interact...
Change Facilitation
Apparently, Employees are also People!
I was playing around with some of my flower pics on Saturday, wishing for Spring after weeding,...
Facilitating Workplace Improvement: Herding Cats and Frogs
Some thoughts and ideas about managing the unmanageable. And some cute videos. You CAN herd cats if you have your act together, maybe…
Poem on Performance Improvement and Training
For two dozen years, I have used a "strength building" illustration as step one to discuss how...
2017 – A Year of Choices, Engagement and Innovation
We are at the cusp of a new year and this tends to be the time when people consider new...
A Round Wheel Happy New Year!
We had a Christmas Day brunch at one of the finer hotels here in Greenville and, to put it simply,...
Monkeys, Management and Motivation – Simple Ideas
A blog about issues around corporate cultures and normative behaviors that make no apparent sense,
Are Managers simply BAD or is it the Workplace
This will be a short post, with a link to a solid article and one illustration. Gallup had an...
Santa’s Square Wheels Performance Improvement Poem
A special Holidays greeting to you with the hope that an illustrated "Getting Santa Rolling" poem...
What is Negative Reinforcement, a Square Wheels Innovation Framework
The key point here is that removing Square Wheels has widespread, natural systemic reinforcing...
It’s about Perspective Opportunity, People!
Perception. Breakfast of Champions. Or some such thing. Stepping back from the wagon to look for...
Thrive Global – and a message for Supervisors everywhere
It was interesting to read Arianna Huffington's post, "Welcome to Thrive Global." As I read her...
Engagement. Motivation. Innovation. The Critical Importance of Supervisors
WHO in your management team has the absolute most impact on profits? Please do not delude yourself...
What is it with “Engagement?” Why can’t we drive it forward More Better Faster?
I was shocked and amazed to see, after we have spent billions of dollars on surveys and...
Workplace FUN – ONE stupidly simple idea
Gallup just published a report that showed that only 35% of male managers in the US are engaged in...