I listened to a great presentation yesterday by Mercer on managing engagement, the need to focus...
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Corporate Engagement Hasn’t Worked – Why not try Disruptive Engagement?
What is your reaction to these statements? "I'm from Human Resources and I am here to help you."...
Trust in the Sand
My colleagues in Romania just sent me an email about one of their blog posts on leadership that...
If not you, WHO? If not now, WHEN?
If not you, WHO? If not now, WHEN? I love that short little quote about personal accountability...
Continuous Continuous Improvement and Team Building
Dozens of years ago, when I chaired our local ASQC group, it was common to hear these quality...
Engagement – Think Local, Act Local
I was reading an article on adapting things like HomeKit and Echo into the way people interact...
Intrinsic Motivation – It comes from having a goal
My friend Jimmy Jain posted up a picture of himself after running a race. The images of him below...
Spring Forward Monday™ is March 13, 2017 – A Square Wheels® Solution
Okay, March 13 is a Monday. But it is also the Monday after Sunday morning's loss of an hour's...
Apparently, Employees are also People!
I was playing around with some of my flower pics on Saturday, wishing for Spring after weeding,...
Facilitating Workplace Improvement: Herding Cats and Frogs
Some thoughts and ideas about managing the unmanageable. And some cute videos. You CAN herd cats if you have your act together, maybe…
Poem on Performance Improvement and Training
For two dozen years, I have used a "strength building" illustration as step one to discuss how...
Are Managers simply BAD or is it the Workplace
This will be a short post, with a link to a solid article and one illustration. Gallup had an...
WHAM! The Square Wheels Guy sees a Round Wheel
I shared this story with a couple of associates last night and both said I should blog about it....
It’s about Perspective Opportunity, People!
Perception. Breakfast of Champions. Or some such thing. Stepping back from the wagon to look for...
Choose Rolling over Rocking
Below are two images that represents one of those simple contemplation ideas or thoughts on life,...