I popped up a short post on doing a Day of Un-Appreciation every year, with the idea that doing a...
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Better Roadblock Management – Dis-Un-Empowerment and Square Wheels
My regular readers know that I use images and metaphors to express a lot of my thinking. My basic...
Trust and Respect: Should you force your managers to lie, PlanetFitness?
I wrote a few weeks ago about the Wade Hampton PlanetFitness gym and their apparent policy of zero...
Zero Engagement at PlanetFitness?
For almost a year, I have gone to the PlanetFitness operation not far from my office. They did a...
Purposeful Meeting Openers and Icebreakers: Relevant and Congruent
In my experience, many trainers and consultants focused on involving and engaging participants use...
Entrepreneurial Terror – How can anyone else understand?
One of my most favorite articles of all time is one by Wilson Harrell, then an editor of Inc....
Weed Killers, Bug Killers and Organizational Development
We spend a LOT of money on weed control and bug killers for our yards and gardens. We spend tiny...
Elephants, Line Managers and Workplace Engagement
More and more, I am convinced that the key training people in organizations do not reside in HR /...
Fear is The Mindkiller – Thoughts on Facilitation and Engagement
In writing about facilitation and how it seems that some people want to make this simple concept...
A really neat set of inspirational cartoons…
Here are a really neat set of inspirational cartoons that can be used to stimulate engagement and...
An interview on leadership and engagement with Dr. Scott Simmerman
In the published interview discussion below, Dr. Scott Simmerman, managing partner of Performance...
Some simple thoughts and quotes on change
There are lots of possibilities for improvement of people and organizations and the list is...
Teaching The Caterpillar to Fly – Thoughts on Change – Part Five
This is Part Five of our five-part post on Teaching The Caterpillar to Fly, the issues surrounding...
Slogans about People and Performance, Illustrated with Square Wheels
Occasionally, I will see something that buzzes my brain and I will go off running in that...
The Play’s The Thing – More Cartoons on how organizations really work
Organizations need to make continuous progress on workplace improvements so that they can sustain...