You CAN improve Engagement and impact Profitability - Gallup’s top performers treat engagement as...
World’s Best Tool for Engagement – Square Wheels
Engagement just fell to its lowest level since 2020, with only 1 in 5 employees engaged and making...
Supervisors and the “Wicked Problem” of Enablement
The “Supervisor Hellscape” Wicked Problem is an organizational reality globally and we must Step...
Engagement, Disengagement, Un-engagement and UN-Dis-engagement
Engagement and UN-Dis‑Engagement: Impacting the Real Work of Enabling Performance in the workplace...
Why Morale Crashes and tools for enablement
The Honeymoon is Still Over: Why Morale Crashes After Six Months on the Job and some tools for...
Empowerment, Disempowerment, un-empowerment, and Un-Dis-empowerment
Empowerment and Disempowerment are certainly a reality of most workplaces. We talk about them all...
People Have the Power: Redesigning Meetings with Square Wheels and Flow
The focus of this post is Patti Smith's song "People Have the Power" and redesigning meetings with...
StoryAsking is better than StoryTelling
StoryAsking is better than StoryTelling because you actively involving others in developing their...
Rolling Over Distractions: How Square Wheels Supercharges Engagement
Rolling Over Distractions: How Square Wheels Supercharges Engagement in a World of 47-Second...
Employee Appreciation Day – Ideas for Supervisors
Employee Appreciation Day: Some ideas for supervisors to stop the Wagon, Ask and Enable the People...
Conversations between Managers and their Supervisors
Most feedback conversations between managers and their supervisors are not about performance;...
Performance Feedback Checklist – SIMPLE
THIS post offers a short-form overview of the much more detailed "Performance Feedback Standards...
DIS-Un-Engagement – The only real way to engage people for workplace improvement
So often, we see talk of engaging people. In actuality, the only real way to engage people for...
Poems and Cartoons on Performance – Engaging Ideas
Since 1993, I have been using cartoons as tools for conversations. The illustrations are simple...
The Play’s The Thing – More Cartoons on how organizations really work
Organizations need to make continuous progress on workplace improvements so that they can sustain...













