For the past two weeks, we have 50 or so people engaged in a LinkedIn conversation about: "We're...
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Going Postal – Workplace violence and Engagement
As regular readers know, I write a lot on the themes of employee productivity and workplace...
Sabotage, Defense, Engagement and Workplace Collaboration
Sabotage, Defense, Engagement and Workplace Collaboration are common issues in many of today's...
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...
Tons of Good Writings, so why is improvement so hard? Part One
This is the first of two articles that hammer on the issues around supervision and how they affect...
Tons of Good Writings, so why is improvement so hard? Part Two
This is the second of two articles that hammer on the issues around supervision and how they...
Communications, Pressure, and Stepping Back from the Wagon
We use the metaphor of "Stepping back from the Wagon" as a way of saying that perspective and...
Dot-Voting and Square Wheels for Innovation Ideas and Improved Shared Ownership
I will suggest you use Dot-Voting and Square Wheels for Innovation Ideas and Improved Shared...
Engagement, Fulfillment, Performance, Perfection and Excellence
I was reading an article by Shep Hyken on his thinking around 5 steps to achieve employee...
Improving Leadership Effectiveness = Dis-Un-Engagement
We CAN improve Leadership Effectiveness if we can just get them to do something differently. This...
Avoiding Deep Vein Thrombosis and Death by Powerpoint
Exciting and Engaging and Large Corporate Event are phrases that are seldom linked together. Put...
Thoughts on Team Building – Cross-Cultural Impacts of Lost Dutchman
The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine really works well cross-culturally and I was reminded...
Teamwork, Communications and Optimization of Performance
My friend Lou Carloni has been sharing ideas about people and performance for many years and a...
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...
Square Wheels – Going Viral on People and Performance
Jonah Berger's recent book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On, is about why things go viral in...