High Performance Environments can be built around themes of teamwork and fun and a concept of...
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Why is “Lost Dutchman” such a great team building exercise?
Why is "Lost Dutchman" such a great team building exercise? LOTS of reasons... First, Active...
The Contagion of Desired Behaviors – Some thoughts on Collaboration and Leadership
Workplace behaviors can be contagious, which can be a highly useful thing as we try to change...
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...
Engagement – Think Local, Act Local
I was reading an article on adapting things like HomeKit and Echo into the way people interact...
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,...
12 Great Strategic Board Games – by Joe Cole (with Scott Simmerman)
Entertainment is as important as work because it keeps your life balanced and in this manner you...
Poem on Performance Improvement and Training
For two dozen years, I have used a "strength building" illustration as step one to discuss how...
2017 – A Year of Choices, Engagement and Innovation
We are at the cusp of a new year and this tends to be the time when people consider new...
Square Wheels, Dr. Seuss and “suck” or “muck?”
As we develop more and more thoughts on The Square Wheels Project, our course to teach...
A "Stupidly Simple" Square Wheels Facilitation Toolkit
I just uploaded a new and improved engagement toolkit, wrapped around using my Square Wheels...
Beautiful Math – Euler's Law and Square Wheels
This post is a little off the beaten path for the blog but I thought that this article was really...
Leadership Secrets and Teamwork
Dan Rockwell's blog, Leadership Freak, is excellent. He offers up a very wide variety of...
Rental of Team Building Exercise for Large Groups
The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine (LDGM) is a great team building board game exercise...