The Square Wheels, LEGO Controversy: Thoughts on Leadership and Engagement...
In the blog post of yesterday, I shared the LEGO image that was sent to me with comments that I was either collaborating with the author or that he was infringing on my intellectual property. The...
View ArticleElephants, Line Managers and Workplace Engagement
More and more, I am convinced that the key training people in organizations do not reside in HR / Training Departments but exist in the ranks of the line managers. The complexity of their job roles,...
View ArticleThe Reality of Change, Innovation and Employee Engagement
Change is a constant in the workplace: there is always something… Sometimes change appears to be happening too fast and sometimes it seems much too slow, given the business needs. Sometimes we are...
View ArticleSusan’s Courage on Innovating her workplace – a Square Wheels / LEGO Story
The fun continues. And I just updated the slideshare to make the dialog more interesting about how Susan deals with her work. I created a wagon pusher character, Susan, and put her into the role of...
View ArticleThoughts on Change and Choice – a Square Wheels LEGO cartoon
I was thinking about a discussion about climate change and decision-making and “considered alternatives” and things like that and I just happened to see one of the illustrations I did for my Susan and...
View ArticleEngagement, Communications and Building Teams
We talk about engagement, but it does not appear too often if one looks at the myriad of statistics and surveys about the workplace. My personal view is that too many supervisors have too much task...
View ArticleLEGO Team Building Exercises
If you have been following my blogs, you would know that I am using LEGO to help impact organizational improvement and to reframe some of my Square Wheels ideas. I posted this one up today on my poems...
View ArticleKeeping 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 Elements for a High Performing Team.” Bob said: There are four common denominators of high performing...
View ArticleIs Work Funny or What? Paradoxes in Perceptions
I am a serious guy when it comes to people and performance, which is why I lean toward using games and cartoons. They are simply More Effective than, well, being SERIOUS! So, let me take a serious poke...
View ArticleFacilitation and Motivation – Ideas for workplace improvement
Overall, fear of public speaking remains America’s biggest phobia – 25% say they fear speaking in front of a crowd. Clowns (8% feared) are officially scarier than ghosts (7%), but zombies are scarier...
View Article“Spring Forward Monday” For Workplace Improvement
Monday’s, most typically, are the least favorite day of the work week but the Monday following the Daylight Saving’s “spring forward” time change, arguably, should be considered the worst of Mondays...
View ArticleElephants, Line Managers and Workplace Engagement
More and more, I am convinced that the key training people in organizations do not reside in HR / Training Departments but exist in the ranks of the line managers. The complexity of their job roles,...
View ArticleThe Reality of Change, Innovation and Employee Engagement
Change is a constant in the workplace: there is always something… Sometimes change appears to be happening too fast and sometimes it seems much too slow, given the business needs. Sometimes we are...
View ArticleSusan's Courage on Innovating her workplace – a Square Wheels / LEGO Story
The fun continues. And I just updated the slideshare to make the dialog more interesting about how Susan deals with her work. I created a wagon pusher character, Susan, and put her into the role of...
View ArticleThoughts on Change and Choice – a Square Wheels LEGO cartoon
I was thinking about a discussion about climate change and decision-making and “considered alternatives” and things like that and I just happened to see one of the illustrations I did for my Susan and...
View ArticleEngagement, Communications and Building Teams
We talk about engagement, but it does not appear too often if one looks at the myriad of statistics and surveys about the workplace. My personal view is that too many supervisors have too much task...
View ArticleLEGO Team Building Exercises
If you have been following my blogs, you would know that I am using LEGO to help impact organizational improvement and to reframe some of my Square Wheels ideas. I posted this one up today on my poems...
View ArticleKeeping 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 Elements for a High Performing Team.” Bob said: There are four common denominators of high performing...
View ArticleIs Work Funny or What? Paradoxes in Perceptions
I am a serious guy when it comes to people and performance, which is why I lean toward using games and cartoons. They are simply More Effective than, well, being SERIOUS! So, let me take a serious poke...
View ArticleFacilitation and Motivation – Ideas for workplace improvement
“Fear is the Mindkiller,” was repeated incessantly in the Dune books of Frank Herbert. Fear is numbing and generally not useful. Overall, the “Fear of public speaking,” remains America’s biggest phobia...
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