You got to hand it to the Elves of the world, since they are the ones who get most things done....
Thoughts on Optimal Team Sizes and Intrinsic Motivation for Results
Andrea Goodridge posed the following question in a LinkedIn discussion: "What is the optimal team...
What I hope for: The Workplace
I was asked for a 500-word "wish" to be published by another organization and I thought to repost...
Even Dilbert Understands this Engagement Stuff
In one of my groups, a reference was made to one of Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon strips that...
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...
You set YOUR price for our Facilitation Toolkit – Square Wheels Roll!
Square Wheels illustrations have been used worldwide for almost 20 years as tools for...
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...
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...
Big Leaps and Little Steps – Thoughts on Innovation and Creativity
For dozens of years, I have worked on the edges of how organizations work, being The Man in two...
Dis-Un-Engagement – thoughts for impacting employee engagement in the workplace
A series of different LinkedIn posts in my lists have focused on the general theme of "employee...
Nothing Made Sense… Who cares!
There was a post up in one of my LinkedIn groups about the fact that there is another definition...
Organizational Positive Self-Talk – Ideas for Improvement
Cleaning out some old filing cabinets, I came across my NLP folders, which contained a lot of...
The Customer sets the price for our Square Wheels Facilitation Toolkit!
Please note: We stopped this promotion a while back. People continued to pay our retail price for...


