When initially designed 25 years ago, The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine was to have a...
Team Building with Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine
After 22 years in the global organizational improvement marketplace, The Search for The Lost...
Asking Key Questions to Generate Intrinsic Motivation and Engagement
If you are a regular reader of my blogs, you know that we write extensively on issues of teamwork,...
Keeping It Stupidly Simple – Thoughts on Teams and Teamwork
In a recent LinkedIn thread on leadership, Bob Whipple posted up a short note on "4 Essential...
Some New Thoughts on Trust and Devils Advocate
A grad-school colleague who was a self-described Devil's Advocate was always challenging...
Two LEGO Square Wheels Posters on Trust
Barbara Kimmel and I are discussing the placement of some simple "Poster Training Illustrations"...
Elephants, Line Managers and Workplace Engagement
More and more, I am convinced that the key training people in organizations do not reside in HR /...
Why do teams choose to compete rather than collaborate?
People continually make choices, selecting responses from their existing set of "behavioral...
KISS – Keeping It Stupidly Simple – A Square Wheels Poster on Collaboration
Complex, convoluted and risky. That is today's workplace for most people. Nothing seems simple...
KISS – Keeping It Stupidly Simple – A Square Wheels Poster on Team Perspective
Conversations keep reinforcing the idea that everything is getting increasingly complicated these...
Square Wheels LEGO Poster on CONFIDENCE
I got the idea to do a number of illustrating posters on keyword themes, so the first one that...
Debriefing Team Building Games – Some Ideas and Reactions
A few weeks ago, I posted up a 35-slide Slideshare compendium of some of the main debriefing...
Teamwork and Politics, Alligators and Sharks and Fear as a Motivator
Organizational Improvement and Performance Management and Innovation and Teamwork. These are real...
On Teamwork, Trial and Error Improvement, and Blame Frames
Organizational improvement and teamwork tends to be a lot of trial and error improvement. The...
If you aren't leading and engaging, what ARE you doing?
If you aren't leading, involving, engaging and motivating people, are you just taking up valuable...