A discussion about the major differences between appraisal and performance management along with a parable that tells a useful story and details a good metaphor about people getting things accomplished.
Metaphors for business improvement
Godzilla, Bambi and Innovation and Creativity
Why does innovation and creativity sometimes seem so hard to generate? This is an old issue with...
MORE on being “Too Busy” to implement new improvements
GENERALLY, most workers in most organizations will say that management does a pretty poor job of...
Too Busy and Somewhat Disengaged – an illustration of workplace reality
For the past 25 years, we have been playing with various Square Wheel® images around people and...
The Square Wheels Controversy – LEGO or Line-Art?
Since 1993, I have been presenting workshops internationally using a series of line-art images...
People, Performance, and Robotics – Let’s focus on PEOPLE!
Thoughts on getting things done as we see more and more use of artificial intelligence in more and...
Round Wheels of Today are the Square Wheels of Tomorrow – Thoughts on Continuous Continuous Improvement
Simple thoughts on how things really work in most organizations, set up as a haiku: In any work...
Innovation, Motivation and Supervisory Facilitation – The Square Wheels Project
There are plenty of good tools out there for generating new ideas and momentum about innovating in...
Spring Forward Monday – Focused Innovation and Engagement Tools for after Daylight Savings Time
Spring Ahead with Motivated Action on Monday, March 12th What is Spring Forward Monday? It's a...
Teamwork, Collaboration and Engagement – A tool for motivation and leadership
The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine is a powerful tool for organizational development, an exercise you can purchase as a board game or something you can now run online, focused on teambuilding with remote teams.
Happy New Year – Simple Ideas for Reframing and Future-Focusing
Here are a couple of ideas to make your teambuilding exercise more fun and more effective. We...
Great new Lost Dutchman Teambuilding Exercise Updates
One of the world's very best teambuilding simulations just got better. And we guarantee...
Branding, Change, Marketing and Square Wheels
We sell simple tools for communications and engagement and have been doing it now for 25 years. We...
Disruptive Engagement – 6 Blogs and 4 Illustrations
Engagement is anchored to empowerment, and organizations need dis-un-engaged and dis-un-empowered...
Managers – How Square Wheels can impact their workplaces
I got three fast notes from an HR director from an Indian company this morning. He and I had...