Every year, Joan writes and illustrates a poem about the pressures on Santa Clause to improve and sustain his teams’ performance. This year, we chose to create some LEGO scenes to share how we have built those creative toys into our experiential exercises and metaphors. We’ve been publishing this through our emails but I thought to also share it within the blog.
How Santa Plays for Improvements
– For the FUN of It! –
As the holiday season rolls in, our best wishes to you for special moments of peace and fun. Each year at this time, we play with our Square Wheels images (now using LEGO), hoping you might sit back and enjoy them along with some homespun thoughts from Santa about solving some issues around people and performance, including the elves and the reindeer…
Santa has involvement and engagement issues in his organization too, you know!
How Santa Plays for Improvements
As always, Santa’s all set for Christmas Eve!
That he makes it happen is hard to believe.
We asked Santa if he’d reveal, really quick,
how he gets it all together; what’s his trick?
In Santa’s words:
Teamwork and happiness make us productive!
That’s why I look for ideas that are constructive.
I involve the Elves and Reindeer however I can
then they’ll know they’re part of the entire plan.
Improvement ideas flow and everyone’s taking part.
for finding ways to get improvements off the ground.
showing why collaboration is way far from lame.
Planning and alignment certainly make sense!
increasing camaraderie that wins for everyone!
As our work increases teamwork must shine,
so then I facilitate Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine.
It’s a business simulation that’s really a hit,
it’s memorable and we learned quite a bit.
All these exercises work to help us improve
by addressing issues so we’ll stay in groove.
On Christmas Eve, we’re Up, Up and Away;
Top teamwork gets us going without delay!
Off I go with Season’s Greetings to You,
leaving you with some thoughts in Haiku:
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For the FUN of It!
Dr. Scott Simmerman is a designer of team building games and organization improvement tools focused on people and performance. Managing Partner of Performance Management Company since 1984, he is a globally experienced presenter and consultant.
You can reach Scott at scott@squarewheels.com Read Scott’s blogging on people and performance improvement
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