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Workplace Happiness – Why are so many unhappy?
I sure wish I had a silver bullet on this issue of the workplace and how to make it better. There are so many good writings out there, like this one on leadership and engagement by Christina Lattimer...
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Reflection and Innovation: Don’t Just DO Something, Stand There
This statement, Don’t Just DO Something, Stand There! describes the action that we have been teaching as a basic tool of innovation and change since the early 90s. Only by looking at a situation from a...
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The 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...
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Susan’s Steps Up to address Square Wheels – a LEGO Story
The fun continues. I created a wagon pusher character, Susan, and put her into the role of helping her team institute change and workplace improvement. I used the LEGO block to help illustrate some of...
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You CAN herd frogs! Thoughts on Strategy Implementation
A key role in leadership is one of implementing change and implementing strategy initiatives. And there is a lot of evidence that this is not done very well in many organizations. Research by thought...
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Thoughts 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...
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Engagement, 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...
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Some New Thoughts on Trust and Devils Advocate
My plans are to develop a solid whitepaper on the benefits of challenging existing assumptions and challenging status quo, with the goal of finding solid ideas that merit implementation or to identify...
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Keeping 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...
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Trust is Revealed by implementing Round Wheels
Dan Rockwell had a really great blog this morning, one that I wanted to reframe and reanchor and repurpose into a short piece on engagement and motivation. I will excerpt some of the key points I saw...
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Asking Key Questions to Generate Intrinsic Motivation and Engagement
If you are a regular reader of my blogs, you know that we write extensively on issues of teamwork, involvement, innovation and implementation. And we try to focus a lot on the issue of the interaction...
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7 Things You Should Do Differently to Build Better Teamwork
This is most assuredly NOT the First Rodeo for the vast majority of my readership. Many of you have been managing teams and engaging people for years and have even been an employee of a few Best Bosses...
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A Desk is a Dangerous Place – Thoughts on Innovation and Implementation
I responded to a LinkedIn post about the issues of innovation. It was started by a professor who deals with Very Senior Executives and who talked about starting their sessions with sticky notes and 5...
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The Future of Work, The Future of The Workplace
It’s dangerous for me to sit and read, sometimes, since my mind goes off into different dimensions. I was reading a couple of articles in Smithsonian and Mother Jones and it had me thinking about The...
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The Art of Reframing and the Power of Positive Possibilities
A few months ago, I crafted up a blog for Diane Crampton that I thought I should also publish here in my blog. I called it, Recovering the Powers of Positive Possibilities – Ideas and Anchors for The...
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Purposeful Meeting Openers and Icebreakers: Relevant and Congruent
In my experience, many trainers and consultants focused on involving and engaging participants use some sort of warm-up exercise, with the idea that getting people “warmed up” in some way will help...
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Sweet Feed for Herding the Cows: Ideas for Improved Organizational Results
There is a lot written out there about motivation and all sorts of complicated theories that are similar in difficult to landing a vehicle on a moving comet. Yeah, we can do it, but it takes a bunch of...
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Good Teambuilding? Bad Teambuilding? Leadership?
We’re running with a twitter thread around the link of #baaadteambuilding, with a goal of identifying and playing with some really bad team building frameworks like “herding sheep like dogs”...
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Leadership Secrets and Teamwork
Dan Rockwell’s blog, Leadership Freak, is excellent. He offers up a very wide variety of actionable ideas on so many subjects. His blog today pushed me to share his key points and add a few of my own...
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Challengers: People to play Devil’s Advocate and Contrarians
Everyday news is awash with examples of bad corporate decisions, the ones that make you wonder, “How could they do that?” There are huge corporate decision-making failures such as witnessed with GM and...
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