My partner, Joan, surprised me with an email she sent out to those people who are subscribed to...
Engagement – The Day AFTER National Employee Appreciation Day
I popped up a short post on doing a Day of Un-Appreciation every year, with the idea that doing a...
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...
Implementing Improvement – Ideas on Brainstorming
Implementing improvement is a key role of any supervisor or manager, as is engagement and...
The Art of Reframing and the Power of Positive Possibilities
This is a blog about the power of possibilities and the art of leadership, anchored to our...
KISS – Keeping It Stupidly Simple – A Square Wheels Poster on Team Perspective
Conversations keep reinforcing the idea that everything is getting increasingly complicated these...
The Actual Impossibility of Engagement – An Organizational Reality
Check me on this if you can, but we keep talking about improving workplace performance by the...
If you aren't leading and engaging, what ARE you doing?
If you aren't leading, involving, engaging and motivating people, are you just taking up valuable...
Possible Potential Possibilities and Continuous Continuous Improvement
Ron Richard, a quality consultant up in Canada, and I have been co-publishing some ideas and he is...
Square Wheels – NOT some simple model of organizational performance
An interesting telephone conversation this morning got me thinking that it might be a good thing...
Intrinsic Motivation and Engagement – Training is NOT the answer
Here are a series of my old Square Wheels line art images and some thoughts about intrinsic...
The Origin of Engagement in the breakdown of Appraisal and Control
Simply put: We need stop doing such a lousy job of motivating people in the workplace. Stats show...
Getting More Done with More – Managing Performers, Slinks and Zombies
In my experience, 30+ years of working with organizations the workplace tends to operate with a...
Square Peg, Round Holes and Motivating and Engaging for Performance Improvement
This is a little ditty that Joan cooked up for an email to our customers and prospects and I...
Murphy's Law, Reframed
Murphy's Law is pretty basic and to the point: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. As to...