Poem on Performance Improvement and Training
For two dozen years, I have used a “strength building” illustration as step one to discuss how training is not always a good solution to performance improvement problems. It is the old Bob Mager, “If...
View ArticleFacilitating Workplace Improvement: Herding Cats and Frogs
A couple of really good discussions on facilitation and implementation of strategies and innovation and some basic conversations about people and performance got me thinking again about The Issues of...
View ArticleApparently, Employees are also People!
I was playing around with some of my flower pics on Saturday, wishing for Spring after weeding, composting and fertilizing the day lily garden. That got me to thinking that we need to do those same...
View ArticleEngagement – Think Local, Act Local
I was reading an article on adapting things like HomeKit and Echo into the way people interact with their homes. Alexa is pretty cool, but there are issues around its inability to recognize voices and...
View ArticleIf not you, WHO? If not now, WHEN?
If not you, WHO? If not now, WHEN? I love that short little quote about personal accountability and action. Of course, we can always wait for someone else or we can simply choose to wait, which tends...
View ArticleTrust in the Sand
My colleagues in Romania just sent me an email about one of their blog posts on leadership that had this image within it: I thought it was pretty neat, and it reminded me of my friend and colleague...
View ArticleRadical Candor and Disruptive Engagement
Reading a review by Ted Kinni on Kim Scott’s book, Radical Candor, pushed me to publish this short post on impacting workplace performance through conversation and engagement. Her book is well grounded...
View ArticleMini-blog on Employee Engagement and Active Involvement – Trust and all that
I generally post up pretty complete thoughts and frameworks but this one is more of a blurt. If you want me to do more of these, pass the word. My friend Frank Navran said, “Trust is the residue of...
View ArticleCorporate Engagement Hasn’t Worked – Why not try Disruptive Engagement?
What is your reaction to these statements? “I’m from Human Resources and I am here to help you.” “I’m from Management and I am here to help you.” “I’m from Training and I am here to help you.” Most of...
View ArticleFeedback, Team Building, Ideas and Accountability
Debriefing Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine is where we continue to mine organizational development gold. And there is plenty of gold to mine if we can act to do things more collaboratively and with better...
View ArticleDisruptive Engagement, Supervisors, Empowerment and Performance Improvement
I listened to a great presentation yesterday by Mercer on managing engagement, the need to focus on key metrics but the reality of driving behavior at the very bottom of the organization, which is what...
View ArticleFREE The Supervisor – thoughts on Disruptive Positive Active Engagement
Free The Supervisor might be my new chant as I continue to research and discuss and consider the reality of most workplaces. In a simple phrase, “They Get Pressed.” Remember – The ONLY people who...
View ArticleThe Hubcap Report – a note on Task Interference and Supervisors
These days, my focus continues to be on people and performance, with more consideration around The Supervisor and their work to dis-un-engage and actively involve their people in workplace...
View ArticleDisruptive Engagement – 6 Blogs and 4 Illustrations
Engagement is anchored to empowerment, and organizations need dis-un-engaged and dis-un-empowered supervisors in order to optimize performance and productivity. I say this simply because supervisors...
View ArticleFacilitation, Learning and Motivation: The Supervisor
Networking and Idea Sharing are keys to generating considered alternatives and there are a LOT of ideas about impacting people and performance when people start thinking together and sharing...
View ArticleDr. Seuss on Disruptive Engagement
Even Dr. Seuss would understand about the issues and opportunities around the positive impacts of supervisors leading more active involvement to make impacts on people and performance. The data are...
View ArticlePositive Disruptive Employee Engagement for Innovation and Motivation
It is funny, if you google the word DISRUPTIVE, most of the associated descriptive links will be on negative things and that the main positive framework is the link to Disruptive Innovation, where it...
View ArticleBranding, Change, Marketing and Square Wheels
We sell simple tools for communications and engagement and have been doing it now for 25 years. We had a consistent brand image for 20+ but then decided to shift and now we are faced with the...
View ArticleCorporate Engagement Hasn’t Worked – Why not try Disruptive Engagement?
What is your reaction to these statements? “I’m from Human Resources and I am here to help you.” “I’m from Management and I am here to help you.” “I’m from Training and I am here to help you.” Most of...
View ArticleFeedback, Team Building, Ideas and Accountability
Debriefing Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine is where we continue to mine organizational development gold. And there is plenty of gold to mine if we can act to do things more collaboratively and with better...
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