In one of my groups, a reference was made to one of Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon strips that...
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Improve Your Engagement of People: The Square Wheels Facilitation Toolkit!
If you are looking for a simply toolkit to impact people and workplace performance improvement,...
Team Building and Collaboration for Performance Improvement
A variety of recent emails and phone calls have gotten me re-energized. It seems as though a whole...
Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly
Teaching The Caterpillar to fly is a flexible and impactful framework for discussing change and...
Stress as a Motivator? Cognitive Dissonance and Square Wheels!
In the LinkedIn discussion mentioned in a previous post, the question arose as to whether stress...
Metaphors, Business Impacts and Behavioral Anchors
Some thoughts on jokes and metaphors for people and performance improvement.
Your Brain – Use It! And some thoughts on how it works
It has been an interesting week and a couple of things prompt me to write a little bit about...
Interdepartmental Collaboration’s Vital Link to Organizational Profitability
HR Management Magazine asked me for an article a while back and I thought to make a copy of it...
Catch 22 — So True!
Joseph Heller's book, "Catch 22," is an absolute classic. But it is my guess that not a lot of...
Working while Working – and while on Vacation, too?
I just read one post in a newsletter about working during working hours and doing something else...
On Integrity and Customer Service and improving business results
Integrity and customer service and improving business results are key aspects of the performance...
Workers and Managers, Jobs and Pressures
A 2012 survey by the Leadership Management Australasia of organizations in Australia and New...
Gold, The Olympics and Sports as metaphors for Businesses
In one of my LinkedIn groups, the question was asked: -- What Does 'Going for the Gold' Mean for...
Superstitions, Behavior, and Friday the 13th
In the email this morning was a short article on “Workplace Superstitions” sent to me in the...
Engage-Ability: Some thoughts on people and performance
There has been a lot of things being asked about engagement and involvement as well as issues...