If not you, WHO? If not now, WHEN? I love that short little quote about personal accountability...
Engagement
Engagement – Think Local, Act Local
I was reading an article on adapting things like HomeKit and Echo into the way people interact...
DHL Customer Service – All I wanted was a straight answer…
I sell teambuilding games, simulations designed to improve inter-departmental collaboration and...
Spring Forward Monday™ is March 13, 2017 – A Square Wheels® Solution
Okay, March 13 is a Monday. But it is also the Monday after Sunday morning's loss of an hour's...
Apparently, Employees are also People!
I was playing around with some of my flower pics on Saturday, wishing for Spring after weeding,...
12 Great Strategic Board Games – by Joe Cole (with Scott Simmerman)
Entertainment is as important as work because it keeps your life balanced and in this manner you...
Facilitating Workplace Improvement: Herding Cats and Frogs
Some thoughts and ideas about managing the unmanageable. And some cute videos. You CAN herd cats if you have your act together, maybe…
2017 – A Year of Choices, Engagement and Innovation
We are at the cusp of a new year and this tends to be the time when people consider new...
A Round Wheel Happy New Year!
We had a Christmas Day brunch at one of the finer hotels here in Greenville and, to put it simply,...
Bad Teambuilding, Good Teambuilding
I continue to be struck by how much team bonding is confused with team building. The latter has...
Monkeys, Management and Motivation – Simple Ideas
A blog about issues around corporate cultures and normative behaviors that make no apparent sense,
Are Managers simply BAD or is it the Workplace
This will be a short post, with a link to a solid article and one illustration. Gallup had an...
Santa’s Square Wheels Performance Improvement Poem
A special Holidays greeting to you with the hope that an illustrated "Getting Santa Rolling" poem...
Monday Morning Square Wheels and other thoughts
Here is our new framework for considering how things really seem to work in most organizations,...
What is Negative Reinforcement, a Square Wheels Innovation Framework
The key point here is that removing Square Wheels has widespread, natural systemic reinforcing...