Our Supervisor Hellscapes are Getting Worse and our Supervisors Cannot Fix these wicked problems...
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Why Teams Stop Pushing Their Wagons
When people STOP pushing their wagon, supervisors can use a simple facilitation process to rebuild...
Three Things about The Managers Who Will Survive the AI Era
Three Things about The Managers Who Will Survive the AI Era and help their people and...
How StoryAsking Shifts Ownership more than Storytelling
StoryASKING is a practical way to shift ownership to the people and build engagement. A supervisor...
Coaching with Square Wheels: Turning Research into Everyday Performance
Coaching with Square Wheels: turning research into everyday performance improvement with some...
Red Brick Thinking, Square Wheels, and the Courage to Make Work—and Life—Lighter
How Square Wheels and Donna McGeorge’s "Red Brick Thinking" can deepen conversations about...
Square Wheels, Positive Imagining, and Workplace Innovation
Positive imagining and neuroscience reinforce a truth: people are more creative when they mentally...
From Square Wheels to AI Loops: The Bombproof Way to Make AI Actually Improve Work
The next five years of AI at work will come from the managers who best involve and engage their...
Sustainable Change is not just Cognitive, it is also Somatic
Sustainable change is not just cognitive, it's also somatic, so If we want real change and...
A Better Actionable Model for Improving Sales Performance
I wanted to build on a coaching model with a Better Actionable Model for Improving Sales...
Why Gallup’s Engagement Numbers Matter
Why Gallup’s Engagement Numbers Matter — and how to enable people in the workplace with Square...
From “I’m Not Worthy” Inaction to Rock and Roll!
Staind's song, "Falling" is a great tool for discussing the “I’m Not Worthy,” Imposter Thinking...
Stop Crashing Morale and Start Enabling Improvement
Why Morale Crashes After Six Months on the Job – and how to use simple Square Wheels tools to keep...
Caterpillars Can Fly
For three decades, I have been using the idea of caterpillars and butterflies to focus on themes...
Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly: Why Employees Resist Change and What Managers Can Do
Change is hard for people and organizations for a very simple reason: the past is rarely past and...