Cleaning out some old filing cabinets, I came across my NLP folders, which contained a lot of...
Involving and Engaging People
The Customer sets the price for our Square Wheels Facilitation Toolkit!
Please note: We stopped this promotion a while back. People continued to pay our retail price for...
Team Building and Collaboration for Performance Improvement – Large Event Management
The past week has been really interesting, since I have had the chance to talk to a lot of people...
Nobody ever washes a rental car – Thoughts on engagement and ownership
"Nobody ever washes a rental car." I've been using this phrase for dozens of years, since it...
On Trial and Error, Blame Frames and Gotcha’s: Engagement? Innovation? Really?
Engagement and Innovation are NOT easy things to do, yet they can be accomplished if one remembers...
Keeping Things Simple – Involving and Engaging
Over the 45 years that I have played with issues around involving and engaging people for...
4 Hours for Innovation. What to do to optimize results…
As a consultant or trainer, let's say you only have 4 hours to help a group of managers or...
Active Learning, Reflection and Performance – Thoughts by Mel Silberman
My last blog was on debriefing learning to better impact performance and was stimulated by a...
On Debriefing Learning – My experiential framework on performance gain
Just a short post here, with more to come. I think this issue of debriefing is a very critical...
Managing Attention in Discussions and Meetings
or, Managing for Engaging and Involving... I've been lucky in that I have been able to share ideas...
Chickens, Teaching, Honesty, Thinking and Innovation – a story
An acquaintance who is always sharing stories and jokes sent me a good one. And the more I thought...
Commitment to Employee Development is good! Engagement? Coaching?
In 2010, employers spent more on employees' development than ever before: businesses in the United...
Facilitation. Why? Ownership Involvement and Employee Engagement
As I was updating some of my orientation thoughts in some of the toolkits I sell, I got into...
Metaphors as Tools for Organizational Improvement
Ah, LinkedIn. Sometimes, a post in there just triggers some good thinking on my part (or at least...
Coaching: All the Managers, All the Time
In one of the LinkedIn discussions I participated in recently, the theme was about why coaching is...