Square Wheels Illustrations

20/10/2023

The use of my images is all about involving and engaging people (and teams) in discussions around issues, possibilities and opporuniies. It is anchored to doing things WITH people rather than TO them.

We can help shift workplace attitude by generating real teamwork and collanoration cross teams in the workplace. But here are some thoughts about people and problems in general:

People resist change and you can expect them to push-back. And people do not like pressure or to feel they are being managed.

You cannot empower someone because it is THEIR choice as to whether they want to act. (You can dis-un-empower them by helping them to remove their perceived roadblocks to action through coaching or something but it is still THEIR choice).

We talk about motivating others, but we can't. It is their choice as to how they react.

We can help change their skills and we can change their environment. We can build trust but we cannot make them trust us.

Yep. All this triggered by one simple image I found online, unattributed. We need to put this into all of our mental workplaces, I think, because it is just a basic human reality: 😃

18/05/2023

TOO funny, and too real! I saw this and just had to share it. I do not know the original source and will upload that if I can find it. Does this seem familiar? 😁

THIS is what sometimes happens when you add a toxic employee to your workgroup or team. My suggestion is that we can do some things differently to change the impacts.

TOO

27/01/2023

Running in-person sessions for very large team building groups is made much more effective by first delivering the exercise to the senior managers as both a teambuilding and a facilitation skills program, and then using them to help deliver the exercise to their people. We can easily run 300 participants this way with only one outside Expedition Leader.

The alignment and engagement of these senior managers helps demonstrate the active involvement and ownership of the endeavor to the larger group, who are often untrusting of their managers.

Read more here:

Engaging Senior Managers is a real challenge; to really gain their commitment, actively involve them in delivering a large group teambuilding event!

27/01/2023

The approach and the materials continue to evolve and we hope to develop some great collaborations with organizations and we roll forward in 2023. Lots of customization is possible for generating materials for remote and hybrid workplaces.

22/01/2023

I've continued to play with the new images and different themes. This represents a new set of stuff using the new illustrations:

08/11/2022

People ask me what I did / do for a living and maybe this press release will help to explain it a little better in general.

My business is "people and performance" and "organizational development" and I have been doing this kind of thing since 1978. I guess I am still working a little...

In 1993, we released both my Square Wheels tools and a corporte team building game that we also sell globally. Presenting this and my Square Wheels images has gotten me to 48 countries and we have users of both everywhere.

Square Wheels and Lost Dutchman are the two primary products for the company that I gave to my ex-wife and my son three years ago:

The official Press Release is here: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/making-collaboration-timeless-a-team-building-games-remarkable-30-years-of-helping-organizations-thrive-301670994.html

/PRNewswire/ -- Performance Management Company LLC (PMC) today announced 30 years of success with its world-acclaimed team-building board game exercise, The...

17/01/2022

We are going through the process of generating NEW versions of our line art illustrations. We did this for the new, online version of our Lost Dutchman teambuilding game and we now start the conversion of the old SWs to the NEW ones.

I like this "Divya Style" a lot. Your thoughts? (This is the LDV "Mud" image that parallels the SWs one.)