Decision-making and motivation, two related but pretty complex issues. If you read some blogs, you...
employee motivation
Bill Cosby, John LeCarre and Jim Collins on Improving Workplace Performance and Motivation
Bill Cosby made a great presentation years ago at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)...
People are our Most Important Asset – Seriously? Yes, seriously!
How many companies state that "people are the most important asset" to their organization's...
Tribal Wisdom and Organizational Improvement – Thoughts on dealing with a dead horse
Organizational engagement, workplace involvement, and leadership facilitation are all parts of an...
Motivating People and Performance – Three Simple Ideas
A lot has been written about generating higher levels of performance to produce better results....
Training and Development spins downhill, it seems. Confidence Drops.
eLearning News had a short article on the dropping level of confidence among those people...
X-Teams and Improving Team Performance
Some thoughts on optimizing collaboration, building leadership and clarifying Visions through...
An interview on leadership and engagement with Dr. Scott Simmerman
In the published interview discussion below, Dr. Scott Simmerman, managing partner of Performance...
Murphy's Law, Reframed
Murphy's Law is pretty basic and to the point: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. As to...
The Illusions of Management and Leadership
Over the years, I have led many sessions on involving and engaging people and I have had a...
Some simple thoughts and quotes on change
There are lots of possibilities for improvement of people and organizations and the list is...
Feedback – And Performance and Management Techniques
This blog focuses on the issues of managing feedback for the purpose of optimizing performance. I...
Square Wheels, timing and rhyming on issues
Yes, viewers, Scott goes off on another creative tangent. I am hoping that you will find these...
Poems and Cartoons on Performance – Engaging Ideas
Since 1993, I have been using cartoons as tools for conversations. The illustrations are simple...
Teaching The Caterpillar to Fly – Thoughts on Change – Part Four
This is about Teaching The Caterpillar to Fly – Thoughts on managing and leading Change Square...