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Facilitating Workplace Improvement: Herding Cats and Frogs
Some thoughts and ideas about managing the unmanageable. And some cute videos. You CAN herd cats if you have your act together, maybe…
Bad Teambuilding and BaaadTeambuilding
I don't really think I have to say too much about this and let the image speak for itself. As most...
Poem on Performance Improvement and Training
For two dozen years, I have used a "strength building" illustration as step one to discuss how...
Santa’s Square Wheels Performance Improvement Poem
A special Holidays greeting to you with the hope that an illustrated "Getting Santa Rolling" poem...
Nothing Made Sense – Charter Spectrum Customer Service
I was not intending to blog again today. But this is insane! And I have to vent about customer...
It’s about Perspective Opportunity, People!
Perception. Breakfast of Champions. Or some such thing. Stepping back from the wagon to look for...
Square Wheels, Dr. Seuss and “suck” or “muck?”
As we develop more and more thoughts on The Square Wheels Project, our course to teach...
Workplace FUN – ONE stupidly simple idea
Gallup just published a report that showed that only 35% of male managers in the US are engaged in...
Visions – Hindsight and the View at The Back
In a LinkedIn leadership group, Mark Deterding posted up an interesting thought on leading from...
Teambuilding Exercise – Overview of Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine
My associate in India emailed me with the info that he had just run his 169th session involving...
BOSS: Spelled Backwards
Boss. In organizations, a lot of people know precisely who that is. And that can be a positive or...
Jobs Demands-Resources Model explained with Square Wheels
In a really solid interview of Dr. Arnold Bakker, David Zinger (@DavidZinger) asks about the Jobs...
Please Wait – a thought on Innovation and Improvement
I was playing in my pool league and there was an old plastic sign that someone had stuck on the...
Presenteeism – They are IN but they are OUT
I was reading some news feeds and came across the word, "Presenteeism" in an HR thread. The term...