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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...
Some New Thoughts on Trust and Devils Advocate
My plans are to develop a solid whitepaper on the benefits of challenging existing assumptions and...
Two LEGO Square Wheels Posters on Trust
Barbara Kimmel and I are discussing the placement of some simple "Poster Training Illustrations"...
Elephants, Line Managers and Workplace Engagement
More and more, I am convinced that the key training people in organizations do not reside in HR /...
Why do teams choose to compete rather than collaborate?
People continually make choices, selecting responses from their existing set of "behavioral...
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...
Square Wheels LEGO Poster on CONFIDENCE
I got the idea to do a number of illustrating posters on keyword themes, so the first one that...
Debriefing Team Building Games – Some Ideas and Reactions
A few weeks ago, I posted up a 35-slide Slideshare compendium of some of the main debriefing...
Teamwork and Politics, Alligators and Sharks and Fear as a Motivator
Organizational Improvement and Performance Management and Innovation and Teamwork. These are real...
On Teamwork, Trial and Error Improvement, and Blame Frames
Organizational improvement and teamwork. The ideas are pretty simple but the reality of actually...
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...
Facilitation? Me, a Facilitator? Me, a MOTIVATOR??
I haven't checked lately, but 50 years of watching what people say they fear has kept as the...
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.