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Managing and leading change
WHAM! The Square Wheels Guy sees a Round Wheel
I shared this story with a couple of associates last night and both said I should blog about it....
Teams, Teaming and Teamworking
There have been a number of articles around the idea that teamwork does not work to improve...
Implementing Improvement – Ideas on Brainstorming
Implementing improvement is a key role of any supervisor or manager, as is engagement and...
Challengers: People to play Devil's Advocate and Contrarians
Everyday news is awash with examples of bad corporate decisions, the ones that make you wonder,...
Purposeful Meeting Openers and Icebreakers: Relevant and Congruent
In my experience, many trainers and consultants focused on involving and engaging participants use...
7 Things You Should Do Differently to Build Better Teamwork
This is most assuredly NOT the First Rodeo for the vast majority of my readership. Many of you...
Weed Killers, Bug Killers and Organizational Development
We spend a LOT of money on weed control and bug killers for our yards and gardens. We spend tiny...
Thoughts on Change and Choice – a Square Wheels LEGO cartoon
I was thinking about a discussion about climate change and decision-making and "considered...
Susan's Courage on Innovating her workplace – a Square Wheels / LEGO Story
The fun continues. And I just updated the slideshare to make the dialog more interesting about how...
The Reality of Change, Innovation and Employee Engagement
The reality of change is that it takes new things to drive it forward. Innovation and employee...
Elephants, Line Managers and Workplace Engagement
More and more, I am convinced that the key training people in organizations do not reside in HR /...
Reflection and Innovation: Don’t Just DO Something, Stand There
This statement, Don't Just DO Something, Stand There! describes the action that we have been...
Why do teams choose to compete rather than collaborate?
People continually make choices, selecting responses from their existing set of "behavioral...
We CANNOT expect involvement and engagement if we play the Blame Frame Game
How can we motivate people when we make them defensive? How can we expect innovation and process...