Implementing improvement is a key role of any supervisor or manager, as is engagement and...
Involving and Engaging People
Respect: Half of employees do not have it
An HBR study of employees found some unsurprising results. At least they are unsurprising if you...
Engaging Senior Managers in Organizational Teambuilding
Since we started focusing on the rental of our large event team building simulation, The Search...
Challenging Mediocrity – Continuous Continuous Improvement
Dan Rockwell shared another good post, this one on pursuing excellence and dealing with...
Leadership Secrets and Teamwork
Dan Rockwell's blog, Leadership Freak, is excellent. He offers up a very wide variety of...
Thanksgiving, Innovation Ideas for Sustaining Success
We are going to pop up a free little Thanksgiving Conversational Toolkit focused on improving...
Sweet Feed for Herding the Cows: Ideas for Improved Organizational Results
There is a lot written out there about motivation and all sorts of complicated theories that are...
A Few Stats on Workplace Fantasy Football
I thought that this was interesting data, so I report it here: Fantasy Football’s cost to lost...
Trust is Revealed by implementing Round Wheels
Dan Rockwell had a really great blog this morning, one that I wanted to reframe and reanchor and...
Some New Thoughts on Trust and Devils Advocate
A grad-school colleague who was a self-described Devil's Advocate was always challenging...
Weed Killers, Bug Killers and Organizational Development
We spend a LOT of money on weed control and bug killers for our yards and gardens. We spend tiny...
Engagement, Communications and Building Teams
We talk about engagement, but it does not appear too often if one looks at the myriad of...
Thoughts on Change and Choice – a Square Wheels LEGO cartoon
I was thinking about a discussion about climate change and decision-making and "considered...
Two LEGO Square Wheels Posters on Trust
Barbara Kimmel and I are discussing the placement of some simple "Poster Training Illustrations"...
Elephants, Line Managers and Workplace Engagement
More and more, I am convinced that the key training people in organizations do not reside in HR /...