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Spectator Sheep – Engaging and Involving Poor Performers
I saw a post in one of my online training groups and it was talking about organizational deadwood. Granted, it is an issue in a lot of companies, but my take is to view it as an opportunity more than a...
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Some simple thinking on innovation and involvement
Here is a surprise for you: Big Ideas don’t come from some special place, unless you consider the regular employees “special,” which seems to be an uncommon thing in most organizations. Ideas are not...
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Coaching and the Parallels to Running Whitewater Rapids
Some thoughts on the Rating of Difficulty of Coaching and Whitewater River Running Some people feel that running whitewater rapids in a kayak is a lot like coaching difficult performers. Sometimes the...
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Thoughts on Teamwork and Engagement
This is about issues and opportunities around people and performance. Maximum organizational effectiveness comes from aligning people to work together on shared common goals and providing them with the...
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Motivation, Collaboration, Engagement and Dis-Un-Empowerment*
* Dis-un-empowerment: The removal of those performance-influencing factors (real or believed) that are thought to be un-empowering by the individual or individuals. And we will define Motivation as the...
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Speeding up Lost Dutchman – team building ideas
Over the years, I have come to deliver a detailed Introduction to our team building game, The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine. Basically, I found that it was best to give a detailed overview,...
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Workplace Motivation Improvement – Easy!
It is commonly believed that the fate of many companies could be altered for the better if workers were more motivated. They do not blame the senior managers, who are all-knowing and totally dedicated...
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On Trial and Error, Blame Frames and Gotcha’s: Engagement? Innovation? Really?
Okay – two blogs in one day. But an email comment got my wheels spinning again so I just had to get this one up to. In the “Keeping Things Simple – Involving and Engaging” blog, I shared a cartoon...
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The Problems with Outdoor Training – some thoughts on team building
In a conversation a while back, I was asked if one of our team building games could be used in an outdoor setting. Wow, did that bring up some memories about what might have happened and the reality of...
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Is HR the Puppet Master or the Puppet?
There was a great post this morning by Dan Rockwell on his blog, part of which I reproduce here simply because it is a great subject as well as a target of some of my cartoons. Dan wrote (some...
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Thoughts on Teamwork and Engagement Part 2
This is about some ideas and solutions around people and performance and it is about Teamwork and Collaboration! Typical recommendations about what to do tend to go along the same lines, like these Top...
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Rewarding High Performance in The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine teambuilding game
Managers do not often deal with good performers in effective ways. Relying on extrinsic rewards is often a formula for completely missing the real underlying motivation of many high performers....
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Defense is not good for Innovation – Thoughts on Engagement for Innovation
There was an interesting thread on the Innovation Excellence group on LinkedIn, one that talks about an Anti-Innovation Checklist posted by Holly Green. You can see that post at...
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On Teamwork, Trial and Error Improvement, and Blame Frames
Organizational improvement and teamwork. The ideas are pretty simple but the reality of actually designing and implementing workplace improvement tends to be a little difficult. When we add in issues...
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Teamwork Works! Teambuilding has Positive Impacts.
There have been a variety of articles and posts on different leadership development groups taking the position that teamwork does not work to improve organizational performance. Huh? Seriously? I would...
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