High Performance Environments can be built around themes of teamwork and fun and a concept of...
Best Practices
More Better Faster – Thoughts on collecting ideas for improvement with #morebetterfaster
There are a LOT of really good ideas out there focused on personal and organizational performance...
Innovation, Infrastructure and Africa – Square Wheels or Round Wheel Choices
For the past 10 years or so, I have been reading the works of my pal, Brian Paxton, in South...
Elephants, Line Managers and Workplace Engagement
More and more, I am convinced that the key training people in organizations do not reside in HR /...
Thoughts on building a high performance environment – Teamwork and Flow
"Flow" is a simple concept that relates challenges to skills, with the understanding that the two...
Kill The Paperwork – Improve Effectiveness
Who out there among us does not have too much "paperwork" or "paperwork responsibilities?" How can...
Performance Feedback – Breakfast of Champions!
An overview of how to optimize performance feedback systems, including a checklist of key features.
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...
Is HR the Puppet Master or the Puppet?
There was a great post this morning by Dan Rockwell on his blog, part of which I reproduce here...
Santa – Getting the Job Done and Living The Dream!
Work is work. And some things just do not work smoothly. It is not about effort, but about systems...
Improve Your Engagement of People: The Square Wheels Facilitation Toolkit!
If you are looking for a simply toolkit to impact people and workplace performance improvement,...
Stress as a Motivator? Cognitive Dissonance and Square Wheels!
In the LinkedIn discussion mentioned in a previous post, the question arose as to whether stress...
Dis-Un-Engagement – thoughts for impacting employee engagement in the workplace
A series of different LinkedIn posts in my lists have focused on the general theme of "employee...
Organizational Positive Self-Talk – Ideas for Improvement
Cleaning out some old filing cabinets, I came across my NLP folders, which contained a lot of...
The Customer sets the price for our Square Wheels Facilitation Toolkit!
Please note: We stopped this promotion a while back. People continued to pay our retail price for...