This is NOT rocket science, but the general reactions of so many make it seem like this should be...
Engagement
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...
Bill Cosby, John LeCarre and Jim Collins on Improving Workplace Performance and Motivation
Bill Cosby made a great presentation years ago at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)...
People are our Most Important Asset – Seriously? Yes, seriously!
How many companies state that "people are the most important asset" to their organization's...
Tribal Wisdom and Organizational Improvement – Thoughts on dealing with a dead horse
Organizational engagement, workplace involvement, and leadership facilitation are all parts of an...
Motivating People and Performance – Three Simple Ideas
A lot has been written about generating higher levels of performance to produce better results....
Training and Development spins downhill, it seems. Confidence Drops.
eLearning News had a short article on the dropping level of confidence among those people...
X-Teams and Improving Team Performance
Some thoughts on optimizing collaboration, building leadership and clarifying Visions through...
Annotated Abstracts of Management Team Building articles
Many of my posts are descriptive of ideas for business management team building exercises and...
Maximizing Team Building Impacts with Senior Managers
A discussion of the use of metaphors in debriefing The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine team building exercise. It includes links to information about the virtual version of the exercise, designed for remote workers and team building and motivation.
Murphy's Law, Reframed
Murphy's Law is pretty basic and to the point: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. As to...
The Illusions of Management and Leadership
Over the years, I have led many sessions on involving and engaging people and I have had a...
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...
Feedback – And Performance and Management Techniques
This blog focuses on the issues of managing feedback for the purpose of optimizing performance. I...