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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...
Simple Bad Teambuilding
My associate in Singapore posted up his comments in a LinkedIn group post and I got copied. The...
Press Release on Lost Dutchman’s Teambuilding Exercise 25th year
We're a small business and some things are just normally out of our range of motion but we wanted...
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...
Continuous Continuous Improvement and Team Building
Dozens of years ago, when I chaired our local ASQC group, it was common to hear these quality...
Engagement – Think Local, Act Local
I was reading an article on adapting things like HomeKit and Echo into the way people interact...
Intrinsic Motivation – It comes from having a goal
My friend Jimmy Jain posted up a picture of himself after running a race. The images of him below...
Spring Forward Monday™ is March 13, 2017 – A Square Wheels® Solution
Okay, March 13 is a Monday. But it is also the Monday after Sunday morning's loss of an hour's...
Apparently, Employees are also People!
I was playing around with some of my flower pics on Saturday, wishing for Spring after weeding,...
12 Great Strategic Board Games – by Joe Cole (with Scott Simmerman)
Entertainment is as important as work because it keeps your life balanced and in this manner you...
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...