I will admit to being a little frustrated when it comes to workplace issues of people and...
employee engagement
Top Performers Least Engaged Workers? Low Performers Most Involved?
In 4 of 10 companies, low performers were more engaged than the high performers, a paradox that...
Going Postal – Workplace violence and Engagement
As regular readers know, I write a lot on the themes of employee productivity and workplace...
Roll Better Ideas Forward – Improve Engagement and Innovation
The old brainstorming process works. It just does not work very well. And there are lots of ideas...
Dot-Voting and Square Wheels for Innovation Ideas and Improved Shared Ownership
I will suggest you use Dot-Voting and Square Wheels for Innovation Ideas and Improved Shared...
Improving Leadership Effectiveness = Dis-Un-Engagement
We CAN improve Leadership Effectiveness if we can just get them to do something differently. This...
Teamwork, Communications and Optimization of Performance
My friend Lou Carloni has been sharing ideas about people and performance for many years and a...
Managing The Mavericks – Caring for the High Maintenance Employee
Lisa Woods penned a really great article on managing the people who are the atypical and hard to...
Having an Off-Site Company Meeting? Ideas for Success
There are some good tools out there to optimize the success of an off-site meeting. The list of...
We all impact everything. Your impacts on the Space Time Continuum of Work
We impact others. Butterfly wings and all that. Connectivity. Dealing with chaos in the workplace...
Thoughts on Organizational Improvement, Teamwork, Collaboration and Decision Making
We often think of disagreement as negative, which it can sometimes be. On the other hand, having...
WHY does Godzilla want to smush Bambi?
My posts are pretty much all about team building and team building games, themes of leadership...
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...
What I hope for: The Workplace
I was asked for a 500-word "wish" to be published by another organization and I thought to repost...