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Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly – A poem about a Work in Progress
We’ve been using the metaphor about caterpillars and butterflies and the process of change for 15+ years and have developed a lot of neat little spins and visual anchors and presentation tools around...
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The Caterpillar Flies – a poem by Fern Lebo
We worked with Fern Lebo of FrontRunner Communications to create a poem that captures our caterpillar metaphor and wraps around themes of personal change and personal growth. In addition to being a WAY...
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Teaching The Caterpillar to Fly – Thoughts on Change – Part Three
Teaching The Caterpillar to Fly – Thoughts on Change – Part Three Part One of this series talks about the danger of knowing The Answer when it comes to working to manage and lead change and Part Two...
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The Play’s The Thing – More Cartoons on how organizations really work
Organizations need to make continuous progress on workplace improvements so that they can sustain intrinsic motivation among the staff and retain some level of competitive innovation in products and...
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Teaching The Caterpillar to Fly – Thoughts on Change – Part Four
Square Wheels, Change and the World of Work– statistics and ideas and possibilities – Part One of this series talks about the danger of knowing The Answer when it comes to working to manage and lead...
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Teaching The Caterpillar to Fly – Thoughts on Change – Part Five
This is Part Five of our five-part post on issues surrounding people and performance and managing and leading change. Included are some ideas about: managing change and personal growth assisting...
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Some simple thoughts and quotes on change
There are lots of possibilities for improvement of people and organizations and the list is never-ending. The reality is that life is all about continuous continuous improvement and constant change and...
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Murphy’s Law, Reframed
Murphy’s Law is pretty basic and to the point: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. As to its origins go back to Capt. Edward Murphy and his work at Edwards Air Force Base back in 1949. (You can...
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An interview on leadership and engagement with Dr. Scott Simmerman
In the published interview discussion below, Dr. Scott Simmerman, managing partner of Performance Management Company speaks with Joel Groover about his leadership philosophy and teaching approach. Q:...
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Square Peg, Round Holes and Motivating and Engaging for Performance Improvement
This is a little ditty that Joan cooked up for an email to our customers and prospects and I thought it was really cute and well done. So, I thought to share it on Columbus Day, but it took us an extra...
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Thanksgiving, Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine, and poems for followup
I’ve been building up a series of illustrations to use for following up on training and many of the cartoons and poems will wrap around issues raised in the Lost Dutchman team building exercise. We...
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Common Traps when Debriefing – some ideas from Roger Greenaway
Roger Greenaway is a superb facilitator. Even though we have never met, we run in similar loops and his work is commonly referred to by my customers and other people in this business of learning. He...
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Perfect Play — How can an organization understand what it needs to accomplish...
Thirty years of working with organizations may have taught me a couple of things. One is that a sense of teamwork is critical, along with a real understanding of the issues of alignment. Performance...
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Square Wheels and Round Wheels and Issues of Innovation
In this morning’s email was a note from Allan Mees along with a picture. His thought was that the picture he saw (apparently from Silverstone Fleet Management) reminded him of my cartoons: Yeah, I...
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Continuous Continuous Improvement found by The Caterpillar!
The caterpillar in all of us will probably discover that the world is all about “continuous continuous improvement” and the reality is that our transition from caterpillar to butterfly is just the...
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Intrinsic Motivation and Engagement – Training is NOT the answer
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.” I read that in an old John Le Carre novel 20 years ago and it stuck with me. It is just one of those quotes that just makes some sense out of...
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Puppies and Performance Improvement – Random Thoughts…
Much of my thinking involves that metaphor of a wooden wagon rolling on Square Wheels with a cargo of round rubber tires. The reality seems that the wagon just keeps rolling along, with the leader...
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Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly – A Slideshare program
Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly is the theme of my ideas on managing and leading change. I have presented worldwide on the theme and even developed a complete Square Wheels Change Toolkit that has...
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Positive Possibilities – Square Wheels for Performance Improvement
A few people have recently written that the Square Wheels One image is a negative view of how organizations really work and that it portrays the leadership in a negative way. And they seem to say that...
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Possible Potential Possibilities and Continuous Continuous Improvement
Ron Richard, a quality consultant up in Canada, and I have been co-publishing some ideas and he is going to publish a short “eBook” called, “It’s Possible.” So, he sent me a draft and I bounced some...
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