This is most assuredly NOT the First Rodeo for the vast majority of my readership. Many of you...
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Elephants, Line Managers and Workplace Engagement
More and more, I am convinced that the key training people in organizations do not reside in HR /...
LEGO, Square Wheels, and Teamwork – Celebrating Success
Let me illustrate my thinking on issues of corporate performance, innovation, teamwork and the...
The Actual Impossibility of Engagement – An Organizational Reality
Check me on this if you can, but we keep talking about improving workplace performance by the...
On Teamwork, Trial and Error Improvement, and Blame Frames
Organizational improvement and teamwork tends to be a lot of trial and error improvement. The...
Debriefing Teams for Optimizing Impact – some thoughts on facilitation, planning and debriefing
Debriefing teams playing the game is about generating an optimal impact. Here, I share some...
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...
Followup, Followup, Followup — The Only Way to make Improvements
Guilty of it myself, much more often than I would like. We do some training and expect things to...
Thoughts on thinking about decision-making
Decision-making and motivation, two related but pretty complex issues. If you read some blogs, you...
X-Teams and Improving Team Performance
Some thoughts on optimizing collaboration, building leadership and clarifying Visions through...
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...
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...
The Illusion of Innovation – Some ideas about creative thinking
Like everyone I know, I love to see those different illusions and to see how people so cleverly...
Debriefing and Facilitating for Organizational Improvement – Games versus Exercises
Fun versus Value. Activity versus Learning. These seem to be age old mysteries anchored to...
Military Team Building Games – some thoughts on alternatives
Good Governance, rather than autocratic leadership, is one of the keys to creating value and...