We can start this blog with the simple thought that: Motivation and collaboration require...
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Continuous Continuous Improvement and Team Building
Dozens of years ago, when I chaired our local ASQC group, it was common to hear these quality...
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...
Bad Teambuilding and BaaadTeambuilding
I don't really think I have to say too much about this and let the image speak for itself. As most...
Teambuilding Exercise – Overview of Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine
My associate in India emailed me with the info that he had just run his 169th session involving...
Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine: The BEST Teambuilding Exercise?
I asked my customers for their feedback and they shared it. These are people who have purchased my...
Faster Play = Longer Debriefing
When initially designed 25 years ago, The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine was to have a...
Two LEGO Square Wheels Posters on Trust
Barbara Kimmel and I are discussing the placement of some simple "Poster Training Illustrations"...
The Reality of Change, Innovation and Employee Engagement
Change is a constant in the workplace: there is always something… Sometimes change appears to be...
Why do teams choose to compete rather than collaborate?
People continually make choices, selecting responses from their existing set of "behavioral...
Lost Dutchman – Thoughts about Day One of the exercise
One of my new users ran The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine for the first time and had a...
TeamBuilding – We judge ourselves by our intentions
Inspiration is a weird thing. I was cleaning out a lot of image files last night and earlier today...
Some funny thoughts on outdoor training and team building
Outdoor Training is often a venue for what people call team building. But is it a good one? David...
Debriefing and Facilitating for Organizational Improvement – Games versus Exercises
Fun versus Value. Activity versus Learning. These seem to be age old mysteries anchored to...
Innovate & Implement – an exercise linked to getting things done
We've been playing with the design of a package focused on innovation for a couple of years. Since...