"Flow" is a simple concept that relates challenges to skills, with the understanding that the two...
Organizational Development Tools
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...
People, Leadership, Engagement and Implementation – Best Practices
Robin Speculand and I go way back -- I do not want to count the years but it is more than 20. He...
Large Group Team Building Events – Using Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine and Square Wheels
I was asked about using the Lost Dutchman game for working in large group team building events a...
Testimonial on LDGM from a consultant user
He has used our game for a number of years in different kinds of consulting situations, not so...
“In The Beginning” — Thoughts on Communications
For some reason, the issue of upwards communications of information and filtering keeps coming up...
The Isolation of Leadership = A Desk is a Dangerous Place from which to View the World
I've been using the Square Wheels One illustration for a long time, since 1993, and reactions to...
It’s Not My Fault – Why Engagement is Not Working
Some really scary stuff is how much money companies are spending on Engagement Surveys and how...
Kernels of Wisdom — by Lucy Freedman
Sometimes the most profound lessons come in small packages. A quotation that gets only a ho-hum...
Motivation, Training and Icebreakers. Keeping It Real!
Opportunities to increase motivation abound in every organization. So many things one can do to...
Team Building and Collaboration for Performance Improvement
A variety of recent emails and phone calls have gotten me re-energized. It seems as though a whole...
Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly
Teaching The Caterpillar to fly is a flexible and impactful framework for discussing change and...
You set YOUR price for our Facilitation Toolkit – Square Wheels Roll!
Square Wheels illustrations have been used worldwide for almost 20 years as tools for...
Interdepartmental Collaboration’s Vital Link to Organizational Profitability
HR Management Magazine asked me for an article a while back and I thought to make a copy of it...
Catch 22 — So True!
Joseph Heller's book, "Catch 22," is an absolute classic. But it is my guess that not a lot of...