In the blog post of yesterday, I shared the LEGO image that was sent to me with comments that I...
Organizational Development Tools
Can Creativity be Taught? Is that the RIGHT Question?
Dr. Scott Simmerman is an experienced presenter who uses his Square Wheels® tools to better involve and engage people in workplace improvement.
Focusing Attention on Performance Improvement through Interactive Engagement
Yeah, I avoided the word "game" in the title and used "Interactive Engagement" as an alternative....
Alternate Versions of our Spring Forward Monday Square Wheels engagement tools
We have created some alternative versions of our toolkit and handouts for employee engagement. One...
Quotes, Quips and Haiku on the process of change
I just posted up Part Three of my slides on the issues around managing and leading and...
Learning – What it really is, illustrated
I was reading an article about education and the thought struck me that I can illustrate and...
Intrinsic Motivation and Engagement – Training is NOT the answer
Here are a series of my old Square Wheels line art images and some thoughts about intrinsic...
Continuous Continuous Improvement found by The Caterpillar!
The caterpillar in all of us will probably discover that the world is all about "continuous...
Annotated Abstracts of Management Team Building articles
Many of my posts are descriptive of ideas for business management team building exercises and...
Sabotage, Defense, Engagement and Workplace Collaboration
Sabotage, Defense, Engagement and Workplace Collaboration are common issues in many of today's...
Lessons from The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine, a game on teamwork and collaboration
There are many lessons that can be learned from playing team building games and actually improving...
Communications, Pressure, and Stepping Back from the Wagon
We use the metaphor of "Stepping back from the Wagon" as a way of saying that perspective and...
Thoughts on Team Building – Cross-Cultural Impacts of Lost Dutchman
The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine really works well cross-culturally and I was reminded...
Thoughts on building a high performance environment – Teamwork and Flow
"Flow" is a simple concept that relates challenges to skills, with the understanding that the two...
Rewarding High Performance in The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine teambuilding game
Managers do not often deal with good performers in effective ways. Relying on extrinsic rewards is...