Dis-Un-Engagement is a simple model that suggests people ARE un-engaged and that managers can...
manager as motivator
The Square Wheels Controversy – No Longer an Issue for 2023
There USED to be a Square Wheels Controversy around which of the styles of images were the most...
A Simple Problem Solving Tool for Engagement and Innovation
We use Square Wheels images as a tool for involving people and in this post, we frame the...
Generating Intrinsic Motivation and Active Engagement
Intrinsic Motivation is the real driver of performance. And, Active Engagement is a critical...
The Perfect Time to impact Supervisory Skills
Now is the perfect time to change how we approach organizational development since there is so...
Square Wheels – People and Performance – A joke and a story
Square Wheels® are engagement tools, a series of images around a metaphor of how things really...
Use Supervisors to Implement Virtual Workplace Teambuilding
This blog focuses on the many benefits of using supervisors to implement virtual workplace...
Employee Engagement – Ask versus Tell, a leadership Best Practice
Employee Engagement! People make it seem as if it was some kind of action that is separate from...
Engage People for Performance Improvement
The manager is the key to engagement and engagement is the key to performance improvement. Here...
Haiku on Fear, Perspective and Teamwork
Occasionally, I play with Haiku and use it with images to impact thinking. Here is one on Fear,...
Why are Square Wheels presentations impactful?
Square Wheels® presentations are unusual because of the very useful metaphor that is the anchor of...
What makes a great executive retreat?
Eliza Farri ended a really good article, "What makes a great executive retreat" (HBR - July 4....
Radical Reinvention and Culture Change
The reality of change in big, legacy organizations is that it needs a radical reinvention of how...
What is SUCCESS in team building?
An issue I keep seeing in teambuilding events is a failure to define success in the desired...
Thinking Beyond the Carrot and Stick Theory of Performance
As it happens, the old carrot and stick theory of inspiring motivation is no longer the best way...