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Joan’s 2017 Santa Poem and Haiku about Teamwork and Improvement
Every year, Joan writes and illustrates a poem about the pressures on Santa Clause to improve and...
Teamwork, Collaboration and Engagement – A tool for motivation and leadership
The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine is a powerful tool for organizational development, an exercise you can purchase as a board game or something you can now run online, focused on teambuilding with remote teams.
Thanksgiving Progress – People and Performance
Thanksgiving here in the US translates well to the workplace when a "table is set" with the...
Happy New Year – Simple Ideas for Reframing and Future-Focusing
Here are some thoughts around 2023 and team building and the general theme of Kindness. MY...
Collaboration. Team Building. Competition. Empowerment. Servant Leadership.
The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine is an interactive team building exercise designed to improve collaboration and organizational culture.
Why I HATE Outdoor Teambuilding after 30 years
"Outdoor Teambuilding." For me, this phrase represents an oxymoron, two words that simply do not...
Disruptive Engagement, Supervisors, Empowerment and Performance Improvement
I listened to a great presentation yesterday by Mercer on managing engagement, the need to focus...
Simple Bad Teambuilding
My associate in Singapore posted up his comments in a LinkedIn group post and I got copied. The...
Trust in the Sand
My colleagues in Romania just sent me an email about one of their blog posts on leadership that...
Continuous Continuous Improvement and Team Building
Dozens of years ago, when I chaired our local ASQC group, it was common to hear these quality...
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...
WHAM! The Square Wheels Guy sees a Round Wheel
I shared this story with a couple of associates last night and both said I should blog about it....
Innovation and Thinking – Cognitive Dissonance and Creativity
There are plenty of good tools out there for generating new ideas and momentum about innovating in...
Stupidly Simple Square Wheels Video: Facilitating Improvement
LEGO. iPhone. Square Wheels. Engagement. Innovation. Involvement. Ownership. See what comes to...