Simple Thoughts on training, motivation and leadership is the focus of this short blog, with a...
Change Facilitation
Generating Intrinsic Motivation and Active Engagement
Intrinsic Motivation is the real driver of performance. And, Active Engagement is a critical...
The Perfect Time to impact Supervisory Skills
Now is the perfect time to change how we approach organizational development since there is so...
Square Wheels – People and Performance – A joke and a story
Square Wheels® are engagement tools, a series of images around a metaphor of how things really...
Use Supervisors to Implement Virtual Workplace Teambuilding
This blog focuses on the many benefits of using supervisors to implement virtual workplace...
Employee Engagement – Ask versus Tell, a leadership Best Practice
Employee Engagement! People make it seem as if it was some kind of action that is separate from...
How does Teamwork influence Design Thinking?
I was asked to write about how does teamwork influence Design Thinking for a newsletter and I...
Engage People for Performance Improvement
The manager is the key to engagement and engagement is the key to performance improvement. Here...
Haiku on Fear, Perspective and Teamwork
Occasionally, I play with Haiku and use it with images to impact thinking. Here is one on Fear,...
Why are Square Wheels presentations impactful?
Square Wheels® presentations are unusual because of the very useful metaphor that is the anchor of...
What makes a great executive retreat?
Eliza Farri ended a really good article, "What makes a great executive retreat" (HBR - July 4....
Radical Reinvention and Culture Change
The reality of change in big, legacy organizations is that it needs a radical reinvention of how...
Change is Good. You Go First!
Years ago, I read the title of this in The Dilbert Principles, and the phrase has stuck with me as...
Dealing with Spectator Sheep — Because you can!
Spectator Sheep. You know who they are and what they do – they stand on the outside of what is...
Decreasing Resistance to Change — The Finger, Arm and Leg Exercise for facilitating discussion
In The Dilbert Principles, Dilbert said, "Change is good. You go first." That one little quip...