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The best leaders involve, engage and enlist people in the journey forward by clarifying missions and goals and work to ensure that expectations are known. Below are leadership products that are designed around our Square Wheels® illustrations and support this belief.

Available Products - PowerPoint Presentations

Square Wheels® Facilitation Toolkit

An easy-to-use basic tool for anyone wanting to practice facilitation skills.

As a facilitator, your goal is to engage thinking and creativity and, with this bundle, you'll use the impact of the Square Wheels® One illustration and a Facilitation Guide to assist you in the process of addressing organizational development issues.

The Square Wheels® Facilitation Toolkit is based on the Square Wheels One illustration that has proven itself to be a powerful tool that sets up an interactive, participative approach promoting learning and perspective with unlimited applications. It pushes people to "step back from the wagon" and share their views about how things are working, engage each other in a creative discovery process and use the diversity of ideas and perspective to generate thinking, innovation and communications.

Things that need to be fixed become "Square Wheels" and the "Round Wheel" ideas can be readily created. Gaps that are opened become motivational pressures for change and improvement. The language of Square Wheels is one of "*continuous continuous improvement..." (* From The Department of Redundancy Department)

Included in the Toolkit are:

• Facilitation Tips and Ideas for using the Square Wheels® toolkit 

• More than 50 PowerPoint slides to help you facilitate a discussion about issues and opportunities in your organization (customizable)
• Square Wheels One illustration (in PowerPoint)
• Square Wheels One illustration and 4 related handout/worksheets (pdf)
• A slide presentation on the Dot Voting process (for involvement and consensus) (in PowerPoint)

A Square Wheels® Facilitation Toolkit, Asian Version is available that is the same as the original version except that the characters in the illustrations are more Asian in appearance.

Square Wheels® One has been used worldwide since 1993 and generates group involvement, humor and enthusiasm due to the viewpoints gained. You'll find it easy to use, virtually bombproof and a great facilitation tool for individual and organizational improvement.

Square Wheels® Facilitation Toolkit - $34.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Square Wheels Facilitation Toolkit, Asian Version - $34.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Information Sorting Styles Toolkit 

Information Sorting Styles focuses on patterns of thinking about problems and builds self-awareness of how one prefers to consider problems. This easy to explain and to use toolkit is different in structure than Ed DeBono's "Six Thinking Hats" process but along the same clean lines.  

Included in this bundle are:

• A PowerPoint presentation describing the different styles and offering exercises for classroom use
• Two workbooks and a worksheet
• A summary matrix

You'll appreciate its simplicity and effectiveness in application. Developed in collaboration with NLP Trainer Jon Linder, this is an uncomplicated but powerful tool for working more effectively and improving organizational performance.

 Information Sorting Styles Toolkit - $19.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Mission Statement Development Exercise Toolkit

This is a valuable and proven set of tools for generating alignment and congruence among a workgroup.

Since 1984, Scott Simmerman has used these tools to get groups of people focusing on the issues and values of their organization and working to create effective mission and vision statements. It is fast and neat.

The toolkit contains:

• The materials from the Square Wheels® One Icebreaker 
• Scott Simmerman's Fast Networking Framework
• PowerPoint slides and other documents
• The simple yet effective "Goose" joke framework

This is an exercise designed to elicit, within 30 minutes or so, the main themes and values of the participants in such a way that they can create, discuss and then generate a working mission statement.

Mission Statement Development Exercise Toolkit - $24.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Square Wheels® Roadblocks Management Toolkit

A better flow of energy and attitude regarding one's work is an outcome of this program.

The Roadblocks Bundle uses the basic Square Wheels® facilitation ideas as groundwork for generating group problem solving as well as peer pressure for performance improvement.

The Roadblocks Management Bundle introduces the Square Wheels® concept and focuses on a process that helps people define exactly what can be done to remove the "roadblocks" that get in the way of their success or performance improvement on the job. This is done through a model that describes roadblocks and offers solutions for effectively managing them.

It's designed for any manager and contains:

• An adaptable PowerPoint presentation with about 40 slides
• Square Wheels® One illustration and facilitation
• The Roadblocks Model and facilitation
• Worksheets and handouts for participants
• A variety of instructional materials

Square Wheels® Roadblocks Management Toolkit - $49.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion 

Square Wheels® Organizational Alignment Toolkit

This toolkit is full of slides, worksheets, exercises and Square Wheels® illustrations that focus on the issue of missions and visions and the overall issue of communicating goals to groups of all kinds.

The Organizational Alignment Toolkit contains a variety of Square Wheels® illustrations and all the materials in our Square Wheels® Facilitation Toolkit plus a series of our best cartoons on alignment. Among these are the eloquent "View from the Front" and "View from the Back" illustrations, the Organizational Chart series and the Wagon Train sequence of illustrations. You will find this selection of Square Wheels® cartoons to be a very useful tool for your communications effort.

Also included is Scott Simmerman's Mission Development Exercise and supporting materials that help develop workgroup congruence. This is a stand-alone program focused on using a facilitated "Fast Networking" activity to generate common values and themes.

These materials can also be used in X-Team type developmental efforts, since they can easily be focused on externally-driven team building efforts.

Square Wheels Organizational Alignment Toolkit - $99.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion

Square Wheels® "Nobody Washes a Rental Car" Motivation Toolkit

This is the best price for a complete Square Wheels® presentation. It contains the material used by Scott Simmerman, the Square Wheels® creator, in a 90-minute interactive presentation in Egypt in February 2008 at the Arab Society of Human Resource Management (ASHRM) that received rave reviews.

This presentation toolkit contains mostly Asian but also regular versions of some key slides and has been further developed by adding 35 supplemental slides and other material for a total of 142 slides in all. The presentation was titled "Nobody Ever Washes a Rental Car" and was focused on what leaders can do to better manage human capital for improved motivation and performance. Materials contain presentation notes, worksheets, frameworks and ideas. It is a complete PowerPoint presentation.

Square Wheels® "Nobody Washes a Rental Car" MotivationalToolkit - $99.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion 

Square Wheels®-Coaching Improved Performance Bundle

This package, designed as a performance support to managers or trainers, uses the "projective nature" of our Square Wheels® images to generate an arms-length perspective on performance.

The Square Wheels® Coaching for Improved Performance Toolkit anchors to the ability of the Square Wheels® cartoons to function as a projection tool, much like an inkblot or Rorschach Test in that people project their beliefs onto the images. Through this means, one can easily elicit client ideas, on an individual or group basis, and then generate powerful discussions focused less on the emotional aspects of coaching and more on desired future results.

This focus on the desired future outcome produces positive thinking and centers on dealing with the discomfort of making changes in light of future rewards.

In this toolkit, you'll find a variety of tools for assisting individuals and groups in any improvement process. It will help you better plan a discussion and give you a solid framework for coaching and gaining the other person's active participation and involvement.

Included are:
Powerful Square Wheels® illustrations
A complete PowerPoint presentation
Supportive Acrobat documents for coaching steps and background

This is designed as a communications improvement toolkit to be used alone or in conjunction with other coaching tools.

Square Wheels® Coaching for Improved Performance Toolkit - $99.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion 

Square Wheels® Manager as Motivator Toolkit

Square Wheels® Manager as Motivator Toolkit is a complete PowerPoint-based program on generating involvement and motivation, designed for trainers as well as managers.

We believe that optimally effective managers best benefit the organization by generating active involvement with employees and demonstrate support for improvement. This kind of participative effort can be seen in problem identification, innovation and process improvement as well as in the general quality of work and overall productivity.

This toolkit can be easily used in Leadership Development training, Programs focused on Productivity Improvement and General Facilitation skills.

It includes:

• over 200 slides and presentation notes,
• a series of Square Wheels® illustrations, worksheets, etc. that can be used to involve and engage work teams and can serve as a basic framework on issues of implementation.
• a complete set of ideas and instructions for facilitation 

Good for the experienced trainer as well as the new manager, it can be readily incorporated into leadership development programs.

Square Wheels® Manager as Motivator Toolkit - $299.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion 

Square Wheels® PowerPoint Toolkit on Managing and Leading Change

You can use this toolkit as a major presentation for a half or full day workshop, conference or training event. A unique and profound program that receives high accolades from users!

This is an interactive, humorous, thought-provoking and inspiring program. Subtitled, "Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly," it is a complete presentation that includes the speaking notes of Scott Simmerman, the creator of the Square Wheels® illustrations series and it contains over 120 slides (consisting of factoids, one-liners, quotes and illustrations), worksheets and exercises focusing on change management and an overall focus on the theme of "individual choice."

There is a Square Wheels® PowerPoint Toolkit on Managing and Leading Change, Asian Version, available that is the same as the original version except that the characters in the illustrations are more Asian in appearance.

Square Wheels® PowerPoint Toolkit on Managing and Leading Change - $299.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion 

Square Wheels® PowerPoint Toolkit on Managing and Leading Change, Asian Version - $299.95

-Downloadable Upon Purchase Completion 

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Available Products - Leadership and Team Building

Our Team Building exercises also include aspects of leadership as described below

The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine

In The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine, the specific defined role of the Expedition Leader is, "To help teams be successful." Our exercises are designed with the benefit of being able to include this message of support in the debriefings.

The Collaboration Journey

Our new Square Wheels® Game, "The Collaboration Journey," is a 90-minute exercise that allows for strategic planning and decision-making links along with themes of collaboration and communications. Each person is individually accountable for managing a wagon but the group results depend on the level of overall collaboration.