The International Association for People and Performance Development (IAPPD) is a fast-growing...
Engagement
Zero Engagement at PlanetFitness?
For almost a year, I have gone to the PlanetFitness operation not far from my office. They did a...
Implementing Improvement – Ideas on Brainstorming
Implementing improvement is a key role of any supervisor or manager, as is engagement and...
Respect: Half of employees do not have it
An HBR study of employees found some unsurprising results. At least they are unsurprising if you...
Challenging Mediocrity – Continuous Continuous Improvement
Dan Rockwell shared another good post, this one on pursuing excellence and dealing with...
Susan Saves Santa Saving Christmas – a LEGO Square Wheels Story
I just posted up a blog about creativity in my poems blog, illustrated with some random LEGO...
Leadership Secrets and Teamwork
Dan Rockwell's blog, Leadership Freak, is excellent. He offers up a very wide variety of...
Good Teambuilding? Bad Teambuilding? Leadership?
We're running with a twitter thread around the link of #baaadteambuilding, with a goal of...
Thanksgiving, Innovation Ideas for Sustaining Success
We are going to pop up a free little Thanksgiving Conversational Toolkit focused on improving...
Purposeful Meeting Openers and Icebreakers: Relevant and Congruent
In my experience, many trainers and consultants focused on involving and engaging participants use...
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...
Getting the Cows to the Barn; Thoughts on Alignment and Performance
I am NOT saying that employees are cows. Just the opposite, actually. Well, guess I am not sure...
A Few Stats on Workplace Fantasy Football
I thought that this was interesting data, so I report it here: Fantasy Football’s cost to lost...
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....
Is Work Funny or What? Paradoxes in Perceptions
I am a serious guy when it comes to people and performance, which is why I lean toward using games...