Organizations need to make continuous progress on workplace improvements so that they can sustain...
Change Facilitation
Teaching The Caterpillar to Fly – Thoughts on Change – Part Three
Teaching The Caterpillar to Fly – Thoughts on Change – Part Three Part One of this series talks...
The Caterpillar Flies – a poem by Fern Lebo
We worked with Fern Lebo of FrontRunner Communications to create a poem that captures our...
Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly – A poem about a Work in Progress
We've been using the metaphor about caterpillars and butterflies and the process of change for 15+...
A softball cartoon on employee engagement…
John Junson, a cartoonist working with David Zinger at The Employee Engagement Network, just...
Engagement, Productivity and Work Happiness
There are just SO many statistics supporting why we should be improving organizational engagement...
Managers. Leaders. Engagement. Involvement. Not! (And what we can do)
For the past two weeks, we have 50 or so people engaged in a LinkedIn conversation about: "We're...
Tons of Good Writings, so why is improvement so hard? Part Two
This is the second of two articles that hammer on the issues around supervision and how they...
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...
Teamwork, Communications and Optimization of Performance
My friend Lou Carloni has been sharing ideas about people and performance for many years and a...
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...
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...
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...
Workplace Motivation – “I Quit! Nevermind. Whatever…”
"I Quit! Nevermind. Whatever..." is my anchor point for what seems to happen often in the...
Having an Off-Site Company Meeting? Ideas for Success
There are some good tools out there to optimize the success of an off-site meeting. The list of...