How can we motivate people when we make them defensive? How can we expect innovation and process...
Involving and Engaging People
Moron ENGAGEMENT, is it even possible today
The conversations about time availability for coaching and team building by supervisors continue...
Is ENGAGEMENT even possible, today?
For all the statistics showing that employee engagement is really low and the surveys showing 2/3...
Leading People by Involving and Engaging – some resources
Motivating, aligning and engaging people are critical tasks of managing, but also something that...
On Teamwork, Trial and Error Improvement, and Blame Frames
Organizational improvement and teamwork tends to be a lot of trial and error improvement. The...
Debriefing Teams for Optimizing Impact – some thoughts on facilitation, planning and debriefing
Debriefing teams playing the game is about generating an optimal impact. Here, I share some...
Some Square Wheels Illustrated Quotes
There are a few main "one-liners" and memorable quotes that I use regularly in my articles and...
Which is Innovation Reality? You make the choice…
A cartoon of Håkan Forss generated a few reactions about which might better represent...
The Square Wheels, LEGO Controversy: Thoughts on Leadership and Engagement (Part One)
In the blog post of yesterday, I shared the LEGO image that was sent to me with comments that I...
If you aren't leading and engaging, what ARE you doing?
If you aren't leading, involving, engaging and motivating people, are you just taking up valuable...
LEGO, Square Wheels, Innovation, Leadership and stuff
How do you represent good ideas for improvement? How do you make things actionable and memorable...
Fear is The Mindkiller – Thoughts on Facilitation and Engagement
In writing about facilitation and how it seems that some people want to make this simple concept...
Facilitation? Me, a Facilitator? Me, a MOTIVATOR??
I haven't checked lately, but 50 years of watching what people say that FEAR of speaking has...
Decision Making, Creativity, and Implementation
Maybe the title should be, "Engagement, Creative Problem Solving, Designing Solutions and then Not...
Teamwork and Square Wheels and Implementation
It was a nice surprise to have a customer put up a really nice blog about my Innovate and...