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Susan Saves Santa Saving Christmas – a LEGO Square Wheels Story
I just posted up a blog about creativity in my poems blog, illustrated with some random LEGO pieces. And doing that prompted me to put together a slideshare program building around teamwork,...
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Challenging Mediocrity – Continuous Continuous Improvement
Dan Rockwell shared another good post, this one on pursuing excellence and dealing with mediocrity. Ever since Tom Peter’s and Bob Waterman published In Search of Excellence (1982), I have found that...
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Thoughts on Team Building and Choices, not Beliefs
Since I first started consulting on behavior and performance back in the late 1970s, I was struck by the differences in what people SAY they do and what they actually CHOOSE to do. Often, these...
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Make Your Off-site Team Building Event Pay Off
Organizations hold off-site meetings to generate more alignment, introduce a new strategy initiative, build increased collaboration and related goals. The Big Idea is that the expenditures for these...
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Zero Engagement at PlanetFitness?
For almost a year, I have gone to the PlanetFitness operation not far from my office. They did a really good job of converting a dead KMart location into a busy and viable business, which was the...
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Thoughts on Square Wheels and Blended Learning and Facilitation Skills
I continue to throw mud at the wire fence, looking for where the stick is the greatest and expecting rain. Normal progress, it would seem. Movement here, movement there, movement in many places. We’re...
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Better Roadblock Management – Dis-Un-Empowerment and Square Wheels
My regular readers know that I use images and metaphors to express a lot of my thinking. My basic metaphor for how things work looks like this: Square Wheels are the way things really work, and the...
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Engagement – The Day AFTER National Employee Appreciation Day
I popped up a short post on doing a Day of Un-Appreciation every year, with the idea that doing a day of appreciation is only one day of many and that it should certainly be more common. People are not...
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A Square Wheels Quote on Meaningfulness
Since much of my thinking involves the workplace and engagement and productivity, and my blog IS about People and Performance, I thought to increase your understanding of how things really work with a...
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Engaging Senior Managers in Large Group Teambuilding Events
The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine is a powerful team building simulation that we have been running since 1993. And the initial thoughts on designing the operational side of the game was to...
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Dance of Death, and other images of the workplace
I will blame my old friend, Bernie DeKoven, for this blog! (grin) Bernie writes under the framework of Deep Fun and focuses on generating more fun in work and life as a practical matter of choice. I...
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Show and Tell and Ask for Engagement
My partner, Joan, surprised me with an email she sent out to those people who are subscribed to our postings. I thought it was so good that I simply repost it here: Remember “Show and Tell” Time in...
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Challenging Mediocrity – Continuous Continuous Improvement
Dan Rockwell shared another good post, this one on pursuing excellence and dealing with mediocrity. Ever since Tom Peter’s and Bob Waterman published In Search of Excellence (1982), I have found that...
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Learning Skills, Note Taking, and Improving Performance
I will admit that I was never much of a student when in school. It was an 82 average in high school and a 2.23 in college and all that. On the other hand, my performance in classes and my effectiveness...
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Nobody Ever Washes a Rental Car – Ownership and Herding Cats
“Nobody ever washes a rental car“ is a phrase I have been using in workshops and in my writings since the mid-80s to describe the basic issues around ownership involvement and engagement. The basic...
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Perspective: Stepping Back from The Wagon
Life is funny. Seriously… There is a great story about Scott Adams and how his Dilbert cartoons got started. It was shared in LinkedIn, which had the hotlink to the article. You can go to that story by...
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Stupidly Simple Thoughts on Employee Engagement
It took me about two seconds to come up with the title for this post, after looking at a number of different posts around ideas for engagement and ideas for improving performance this morning. I put up...
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Best Practices – Performance Shortcuts that need sharing
My thinking for the past 30 years has been about people and performance, about innovation and peer support for change and all that stuff. In LinkedIn this afternoon, Ingrid Kelada shared an image from...
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How Square Wheels stop The North Korea Leadership Style in any company
The North Korea Leadership Style? You know, The Dictatorship. The cultures where The BOSS * tells people what to do because they know best, expecting people to simply follow along wholeheartedly. It’s...
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I was reading some news feeds and came across the word, “Presenteeism” in an HR thread. The term was new to me, but since I was gathering some notes around the theme of involvement and engagement, it...
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