This post is a little off the beaten path for the blog but I thought that this article was really...
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Purposeful Meeting Openers and Icebreakers: Relevant and Congruent
In my experience, many trainers and consultants focused on involving and engaging participants use...
Getting the Cows to the Barn; Thoughts on Alignment and Performance
I am NOT saying that employees are cows. Just the opposite, actually. Well, guess I am not sure...
A Desk is a Dangerous Place – Thoughts on Innovation and Implementation
I responded to a LinkedIn post about the issues of innovation and implementation. It was started...
Asking Key Questions to Generate Intrinsic Motivation and Engagement
If you are a regular reader of my blogs, you know that we write extensively on issues of teamwork,...
Keeping It Stupidly Simple – Thoughts on Teams and Teamwork
In a recent LinkedIn thread on leadership, Bob Whipple posted up a short note on "4 Essential...
Weed Killers, Bug Killers and Organizational Development
We spend a LOT of money on weed control and bug killers for our yards and gardens. We spend tiny...
KISS – Keeping It Stupidly Simple – A Square Wheels Poster on Collaboration
Complex, convoluted and risky. That is today's workplace for most people. Nothing seems simple...
KISS – Keeping It Stupidly Simple – A Square Wheels Poster on Team Perspective
Conversations keep reinforcing the idea that everything is getting increasingly complicated these...
A Dance of Change – something new?
It was funny to read a little blurb in the ASTD Training & Development magazine about an...
Moron ENGAGEMENT, is it even possible today
The conversations about time availability for coaching and team building by supervisors continue...
If you aren't leading and engaging, what ARE you doing?
If you aren't leading, involving, engaging and motivating people, are you just taking up valuable...
Teamwork: A poem on Alligators, Sharks and getting out of the mud!
A variety of casual conversations in the past few days have refocused me on the "soft" side of...
Herding Cats and The Moose Joke: Moving 50 feet further than last year…
It really IS like the EDS commercial years ago about Herding Cats! And it is hard to maintain...
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.