Free The Supervisor might be my new chant as I continue to research and discuss and consider the...
Change Facilitation
Disruptive Engagement, Supervisors, Empowerment and Performance Improvement
I listened to a great presentation yesterday by Mercer on managing engagement, the need to focus...
Feedback, Team Building, Ideas and Accountability
Debriefing Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine is where we continue to mine organizational development...
Corporate Engagement Hasn’t Worked – Why not try Disruptive Engagement?
What is your reaction to these statements? "I'm from Human Resources and I am here to help you."...
Mini-blog on Employee Engagement and Active Involvement – Trust and all that
I generally post up pretty complete thoughts and frameworks but this one is more of a blurt. The...
Radical Candor and Disruptive Engagement
Reading a review by Ted Kinni on Kim Scott's book, Radical Candor, pushed me to publish this short...
Trust in the Sand
My colleagues in Romania just sent me an email about one of their blog posts on leadership that...
If not you, WHO? If not now, WHEN?
If not you, WHO? If not now, WHEN? I love that short little quote about personal accountability...
Engagement – Think Local, Act Local
I was reading an article on adapting things like HomeKit and Echo into the way people interact...
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,