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Square Wheels – People and Performance – A joke and a story
Square Wheels® are a series of images around a metaphor of how things really work. The images and...
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...
The Round Wheels of Change in a Square Wheeled World
Let's face it: Leaders resist change and ideas for improvement. The challenge is to give them some...
What is SUCCESS in team building?
An issue I keep seeing in teambuilding events is a failure to define success in the desired...
Is Firewalking incompatible with real teambuilding?
Firewalking. Does it work for teambuilding? Quick answer: NO. Firewalking is certainly an...
Teambuilding and Collaboration – What does Lost Dutchman do?
A new connection on LinkedIn asked me a simple question and I realize that I have not actually...
Is competition in the remote workplace giving organizations a hard time?
An overview of the Square Wheels and the round wheel opportunities for managers of remote workers, and how to engage and motivate them for improved performance and productivity.