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Radical Reinvention and Culture Change
The reality of change in big, legacy organizations is that it needs a radical reinvention of how...
How to Achieve Holistic Employee Well-being in Any Work Environment
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed how people live and work. Organizations need to look...
Manage Workplace Roadblocks – Prevent Employees from Quitting Before Quitting
Impact people and performance by helping them better manage the roadblocks they face in getting what they want. Reduce turnover and improve productivity.
Workplace Flexibility has a lot in store for both employees and employers. Are you game?
Offices have changed forever! Organizations no longer see employees spending five-day, 40-hour...
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...
Round Wheels of Today are the Square Wheels of Tomorrow – Thoughts on Continuous Continuous Improvement
Simple thoughts on how things really work in most organizations, set up as a haiku: In any work...
Joan’s 2017 Santa Poem and Haiku about Teamwork and Improvement
Every year, Joan writes and illustrates a poem about the pressures on Santa Clause to improve and...
Branding, Change, Marketing and Square Wheels
We sell simple tools for communications and engagement and have been doing it now for 25 years. We...
“It makes sense to us” – Thoughts on disengagement and customer service quality
A trip to the library should be enlightening, and I read a lot of books so I go at least twice a...
Positive Disruptive Employee Engagement for Innovation and Motivation
It is funny, if you google the word DISRUPTIVE, most of the associated descriptive links will be...
Managers – How Square Wheels can impact their workplaces
I got three fast notes from an HR director from an Indian company this morning. He and I had...
FREE The Supervisor – thoughts on Disruptive Positive Active Engagement
Free The Supervisor might be my new chant as I continue to research and discuss and consider the...
Disruptive Engagement, Supervisors, Empowerment and Performance Improvement
I listened to a great presentation yesterday by Mercer on managing engagement, the need to focus...