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Implementing Round Wheels to fix your Square Wheels

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On December 29, 2021

In employee motivation, Engagement, Involving and Engaging People

An overview of how Square Wheels can improve engagement and communications within a workgroup. It is a simple process that always generates results.

Square Wheels Tools for Managing and Leading Remote Workers

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On March 17, 2020

In Business Haiku, Change, Disruptive Engagement, employee motivation, Facilitation, innovation, manager as motivator

There are massive shifts happening right now, some are trends that are simply continuing and some are having significant impacts on people and performance. In millions of workplaces, people who have had desks are not expected to continue to contribute by working remotely. That transition is going to be unbelievably painful for millions of workers […]

Santa’s Square Wheels Culture Wall

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On December 19, 2018

In Engagement

A Culture Wall helps to define the values, beliefs and behaviors that an organization or individual supports or aspires to accomplish. It serve the purpose of being a place of communications and consideration, where themes and ideas can be shared and discussed. And given that the Holidays are upon us, we thought you might find Santa’s […]

Square Wheels Cartoons and Quotes Supporting a Gratitude Attitude

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On November 20, 2018

In Change, employee motivation, Engagement, improve organizational performance, Managing and leading change, people and performance

Joan generated her illustrated annual Thanksgiving Message to our newsletter subscribers so I thought to share it here for a more general audience. We wish all of you the best for these days and the whole year. So, here we go: As Thanksgiving approaches, we’ve added our Square Wheels cartoons to some insightful quotes that […]

The Square Wheels Controversy – LEGO or Line-Art?

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On September 21, 2018

In Change, employee motivation, Engagement, executive team building exercises, experiential learning, Facilitation, Involving and Engaging People, manager as motivator, Metaphors for business improvement

Since 1993, I have been presenting workshops internationally using a series of line-art images around the concept of Square Wheels. They can represent things that work but that do not work smoothly and they beg the question about what round wheels can replace them. Users and audiences consistently tell us that this is the best […]

Team Bonding. Engagement. Innovation – an Animated Square Wheels Icebreaker

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On August 15, 2018

In business team building exercises, employee motivation, Engagement, experiential learning, Facilitation, Icebreakers, innovation, Involving and Engaging People, manager as motivator

Interested in a simple-to-use, engaging, experiential framework to generate active involvement in workplace innovation? Want to show a very short animation and then get people immediately talking about innovation and culture? You will find our 40-second stop-motion animation about people and performance fantastic. Show it to facilitate people thinking about workplace improvement and then generating […]

Round Wheels of Today are the Square Wheels of Tomorrow – Thoughts on Continuous Continuous Improvement

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On June 20, 2018

In Business Haiku, Disruptive Engagement, employee motivation, Engagement, Facilitation, improve organizational performance, manager as motivator, Metaphors for business improvement, ownership involvement

Simple thoughts on how things really work in most organizations, set up as a haiku: In any work environment, leaders (aka wagon pullers) often lose track of what is happening at the back of their wagons.They are insulated and often isolated and it is important to remember that, “A desk is a dangerous place from […]

Innovation, Motivation and Supervisory Facilitation – The Square Wheels Project

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On June 18, 2018

In Change Facilitation, Disruptive Engagement, employee motivation, experiential learning, Facilitation, Involving and Engaging People, manager as motivator, Metaphors for business improvement

There are plenty of good tools out there for generating new ideas and momentum about innovating in the workplace. We want more innovation and engagement but we seemingly do little to generate it. Workers work and supervisors supervise and we have little in the way of stimulating thought and implementing better workplace improvement processes. Surveys […]

Branding, Change, Marketing and Square Wheels

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On July 25, 2017

In business team building exercises, Change, Change Facilitation, Disruptive Engagement, employee motivation, Engagement, Facilitation, Icebreakers, improve organizational performance, innovation, intrinsic motivation, manager as motivator, Managing and leading change, Metaphors for business improvement, Organizational Development Tools, The Square Wheels Project

We sell simple tools for communications and engagement and have been doing it now for 25 years. We had a consistent brand image for 20+ but then decided to shift and now we are faced with the perplexing problem of shifting again. I am guessing that this is a common problem but also asking for […]

Managers – How Square Wheels can impact their workplaces

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On June 19, 2017

In Articles on Teamwork, dis-un-empowerment, Disruptive Engagement, Engagement, Facilitation, innovation, intrinsic motivation, Involving and Engaging People, manager as motivator, Metaphors for business improvement

I got three fast notes from an HR director from an Indian company this morning. He and I had started chatting about organizational development and he wondered how my tools could impact the workplace, if they worked for managers, which one would be best and the difference between the downloadable and the LMS. And this […]

Spring Forward Monday™ is March 13, 2017 – A Square Wheels® Solution

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On March 2, 2017

In dis-un-engagement, employee engagement, employee engagement, employee motivation, Engagement, Facilitation, improve organizational performance, innovation, intrinsic motivation, Involving and Engaging People, manager as motivator, motivation in the workplace, motivational team building exercises, people and performance, Spring Forward Monday, Square Wheels LEGO images, team building exercises, team motivation, The Square Wheels Project

Okay, March 13 is a Monday. But it is also the Monday after Sunday morning’s loss of an hour’s sleep as we set the clocks ahead each Spring. AND, it will be one of the low productivity workdays, since you know people will be dragging. (How many do you think will go to bed an […]

Santa’s Square Wheels Performance Improvement Poem

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On December 20, 2016

In Articles on Teamwork, Change Facilitation, employee motivation, Engagement, improve organizational performance, manager as motivator, Managing and leading change, Metaphors for business improvement, Square Wheels LEGO images, The Square Wheels Project

A special Holidays greeting to you with the hope that an illustrated “Getting Santa Rolling” poem might add a touch of fun to your days. Each year at this time, my little company sends out a seasonal greeting anchoring to either our Square Wheels illustrations around engaging people in making improvements or to our Lost […]

WHAM! The Square Wheels Guy sees a Round Wheel

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On December 19, 2016

In Change, experiential learning, innovation, Managing and leading change, Metaphors for business improvement, productivity improvement, The Square Wheels Project

I shared this story with a couple of associates last night and both said I should blog about it. The situation is where some guy (me) who deals in Square Wheels and Round Wheels finally makes an improvement because he finally sees something as a Square Wheel, something operating that way for almost a year. […]

Monday Morning Square Wheels and other thoughts

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On December 12, 2016

In Change, employee motivation, Engagement, Facilitation, innovation

Here is our new framework for considering how things really seem to work in most organizations, this one done as a paradoxical joke that might take a second. It is also something for consideration about the perception of reality:   Here are two of my most useful quotes: Nothing made sense, and neither did everything […]

What is Negative Reinforcement, a Square Wheels Innovation Framework

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On December 11, 2016

In business team building exercises, Change Facilitation, employee motivation, Engagement

The key point here is that removing Square Wheels has widespread, natural systemic reinforcing impacts for improving organizational results. It is a direct and simple way to impact results, everywhere. I am a behaviorist from way back, getting one of those doctorate thingies and playing with “behavioral engineering” back in the late 70s and working […]

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