Yesterday, I answered a Quora question about effective workplace team building activities and how...
manager as motivator
Play the Fool, Achieve Hero Leadership
David Riklin caught my attention a while ago with one of those quotes that says a lot more than it...
Design Thinking: Who ARE those customers
Attending an Agile workshop this morning, my thinking was on Design Thinking and how many of those...
Contributing Improvement Ideas. The BOSS is the biggest issue
I plan on doing a whole series of posts around some survey results by my friend and colleague,...
MORE on being “Too Busy” to implement new improvements
GENERALLY, most workers in most organizations will say that management does a pretty poor job of...
Too Busy and Somewhat Disengaged – an illustration of workplace reality
Workers and managers tend to be too busy and somewhat disengaged from connecting with each other...
The Square Wheels Controversy – LEGO or Line-Art?
Since 1993, I have been presenting workshops internationally using a series of line-art images...
Team Bonding. Engagement. Innovation – an Animated Square Wheels Icebreaker
Interested in a simple-to-use, engaging, experiential framework to generate active involvement in...
People, Performance, and Robotics – Let’s focus on PEOPLE!
Thoughts on getting things done as we see more and more use of artificial intelligence in more and...
Employee Engagement is OVER? Maybe that is a good thing!
An email from Mercer/Sirota today was headlined, "Employee Engagement is so over! Ok, maybe not...
Round Wheels of Today are the Square Wheels of Tomorrow – Thoughts on Continuous Continuous Improvement
The Round Wheels of Today ARE the Square Wheels of Tomorrow -- simply because things often...
Innovation, Motivation and Supervisory Facilitation – The Square Wheels Project
There are plenty of good tools out there for generating new ideas and momentum about innovating in...
Team Coaching – Facilitating Engagement and Innovation
Team Coaching! We should expect all of our managers to have the skills for facilitating engagement...
Servant Leadership and The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine – ideas for owners
We have a great global network of people who own and deliver our Lost Dutchman teambuilding...
Spring Forward Monday – Focused Innovation and Engagement Tools for after Daylight Savings Time
We tried to package a set of tools that could be used on the Monday morning meeting, calling it...