In The Dilbert Principles, Dilbert said, "Change is good. You go first." That one little quip...
Change Facilitation
How do I generate new and improved outcomes in meetings?
Yesterday, I answered a Quora question about effective workplace team building activities and how...
Play the Fool, Achieve Hero Leadership
David Riklin caught my attention a while ago with one of those quotes that says a lot more than it...
Thoughts on Missions, Visions and Values
The issues around Missions, Visions and Values are critically important and deserve a lot of...
Purpose, Blind Spots, and Next Questions
Three new "posters" using the same Square Wheels One image all came together in my head this...
MORE on being “Too Busy” to implement new improvements
GENERALLY, most workers in most organizations will say that management does a pretty poor job of...
Too Busy and Somewhat Disengaged – an illustration of workplace reality
Workers and managers tend to be too busy and somewhat disengaged from connecting with each other...
Teamwork, Thinking, Learning and Active Involvement
Experiential exercises have significant impacts on individual and organizational learning and...
I’ll bet you can’t identify even HALF of the Key Learning Points!
We've been playing with a metaphor of Square Wheels for 25 years, starting with a simple line-art...
Employee Engagement is OVER? Maybe that is a good thing!
An email from Mercer/Sirota today was headlined, "Employee Engagement is so over! Ok, maybe not...
Innovation, Motivation and Supervisory Facilitation – The Square Wheels Project
There are plenty of good tools out there for generating new ideas and momentum about innovating in...
Team Coaching – Facilitating Engagement and Innovation
Team Coaching! We should expect all of our managers to have the skills for facilitating engagement...
Breaking Down Workplace Roadblocks for Increased Productivity and Happiness
If you're a manager or supervisor, you can easily dis-un-empower yourself and the people you work...
Spring Forward Monday – Focused Innovation and Engagement Tools for after Daylight Savings Time
We tried to package a set of tools that could be used on the Monday morning meeting, calling it...
Thanksgiving Progress – People and Performance
Thanksgiving here in the US translates well to the workplace when a "table is set" with the...