Some favorite workshop quotes from Dr. Scott Simmerman, from over the past 40 years of presenting...
Metaphors for business improvement
Debriefing Great Team Building Experiences
There is an art and a science around debriefing great team building experiences. Here I want to...
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking and Team Building
Thinking and Team Building clearly generates improved organizational performance. Simple. So how...
Learning Lessons on Culture from The Galapagos
There are many learning lessons on culture from visiting The Galapagos for anyone paying attention...
Spectator Sheep – Ideas for dealing with the non-engaged
Here are some ideas for dealing with the non-engaged, on impacting the uninvolved / unengaged, the...
Dutchman Delivery Tip – Speed and Quality Learning Points
A discussion the other day focused on a problem with speed and quality learning points for the...
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...
Learning Lessons from The Galapagos – Culture
My trips to The Galapagos have generated interesting Learning Lessons for me about people and...
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...
Haiku on Fear, Perspective and Teamwork
Occasionally, I play with Haiku and use it with images to impact thinking. Here is one on Fear,...
The Round Wheels of Change in a Square Wheeled World
Let's face it: Leaders resist change and ideas for improvement. The challenge is to give them some...
Day One of Teambuilding and Strategy for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine
If you are wondering why this blog is specific to Day One of the 20 Days of play occurring in Lost...
Thoughts on Flying Frogs and Human Performance – and some metaphors
A discussion about the major differences between appraisal and performance management along with a parable that tells a useful story and details a good metaphor about people getting things accomplished.
Godzilla Meets Bambi and Innovation and Creativity
Why does innovation and creativity sometimes seem so hard to generate? This is an old issue with...
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...