A blog about issues around corporate cultures and normative behaviors that make no apparent sense,
Brainstorming techniques
Facilitating? What are we accomplishing?
I play with LEGO. Yeah, and I do it in my training sessions too, focusing on the theme that things...
Learning Skills, Note Taking, and Improving Performance
I will admit that I was never much of a student when in school. It was an 82 average in high...
Better Roadblock Management – Dis-Un-Empowerment and Square Wheels
My regular readers know that I use images and metaphors to express a lot of my thinking. My basic...
Challengers: People to play Devil's Advocate and Contrarians
Everyday news is awash with examples of bad corporate decisions, the ones that make you wonder,...
Elephants, Line Managers and Workplace Engagement
More and more, I am convinced that the key training people in organizations do not reside in HR /...
Brainstorming and Implementation – That DOES work…
In the past year or so, there have been a number of articles and writings on the theme that...
Intrinsic Motivation and Engagement – Training is NOT the answer
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world." I read that in an old John Le Carre...
Murphy's Law, Reframed
Murphy's Law is pretty basic and to the point: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. As to...
Poems and Cartoons on Performance – Engaging Ideas
Since 1993, I have been using cartoons as tools for conversations. The illustrations are simple...
Roll Better Ideas Forward – Improve Engagement and Innovation
The old brainstorming process works. It just does not work very well. And there are lots of ideas...
Dot-Voting and Square Wheels for Innovation Ideas and Improved Shared Ownership
There is a real need to generate active involvement and engagement and to link that energy to...
What are The Square Wheels Toolkits and why do they work so well?
Since 1993, we have been working with interactive "cartoons" and sharing the related tools as...
Workplace Motivation – “I Quit! Nevermind. Whatever…”
"I Quit! Nevermind. Whatever..." is my anchor point for what seems to happen often in the...
Innovate & Implement – an exercise linked to getting things done
We've been playing with the design of a package focused on innovation for a couple of years. Since...