I stated playing with some of the Square Wheels cartoons and doing some short poems over the past...
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A Satirical Post on Team Building and Employee Engagement
I really couldn't help myself on this one, what with it being the day after the Mayan calendar...
News Release: Elves offer Santa a deal on Engagement and Implementation
This just off the presses: Yes, the Elves see that process improvements can be accomplished and...
Training and Development cannot fix performance problems – Some Square Wheels
Companies spend money to improve results. They spend BILLIONS on doing surveys on organizational...
Season’s Greetings
We published this 4 years ago. Check with our blog to see some new ones in a day or two: I...
Engagement and Involvement: What Would Santa Do? Engagimentation!
I thought you might like this little story about Santa and the Elves and his reindeer and how he...
Godzilla Meets Bambi – Simple thoughts on creativity, innovation and leadership
Here is what happens if I let my brain wander around. I got online today and saw a post that got...
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...
Thoughts on Optimal Team Sizes and Intrinsic Motivation for Results
Andrea Goodridge posed the following question in a LinkedIn discussion: "What is the optimal team...
Simple thoughts on Extrinsic Motivation
Sometimes, I am not sure what triggers the motivation for me to pop into here and write up a blog....
It’s Not My Fault – Why Engagement is Not Working
Some really scary stuff is how much money companies are spending on Engagement Surveys and how...
Engagimentation = Engagement plus Implementation
Continued writing and reading and writing has been pretty interesting as I bounce different ideas...
What I hope for: The Workplace
I was asked for a 500-word "wish" to be published by another organization and I thought to repost...
Teamwork, Peer Support and the idea of Dis-Un-Engagement
People need support. On the playing field, the players have each other pushing them in their...
Big Company Team Building Events
This short blog post is about what Big Companies do for big team building events and what kinds of...