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I've been blogging a LOT lately so if you want to see some of the new posts, like the one about "What would Tom Peters do?" or a similar one on Peter Drucker, go to the blog page on the performancemanagementcompany dot com website.

In working on developing a compendium of my debriefing slides (now at 330!) for The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine, I got into a series of questions and comments around closing a session.

So, I added my most favorite closing story, The Moose Joke, to the set but also thought to share it here. It is a story about continuous continuous improvement and persistence and accomplishments that relate nicely to the team building and performance themes.

Here is a link to the "train-the-trainer" version with a narrative about how to actually tell the joke. (It works globally, for sure. It works great even if people do not know what a moose actually is, like in Hong Kong or Singapore.) Proven with audiences over 35 years, in reality.

Have FUN out There! 😃

The Moose Joke - Final Long Narrated Version The Moose Joke is the closing story that I use for workshops and team building sessions to anchor key learning points and to get people to consider possibili...

LOTS of people (yeah, including me) have things to SAY about managing people and performance in the workplace. Yet, with all the talk and models of this and that over the years, nothing seems to really make a difference. We're not dealing with the bad managers and the bad leaders very effectively, for example.

And we allow the really bad actors like the senior management at Boeing to make things really bad and even worse.

Thoughts?

The Data: Employee engagement levels became slightly less negative between 2022 and 2023. While the percentage of global employees who are engaged was unchanged at 23%, the percentage who are actively disengaged fell by three percentage points to 15%, and those not engaged increased by three points to 62%.

Larger Implications: Gallup defines employee engagement as the involvement and enthusiasm of employees in their work and workplace. Gallup estimates that low engagement costs the global economy $8.9 trillion, or 9% of global GDP.

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Supervisors are critical to impacting motivation, innovation and quality, as well as involving and engaging people. Here are some thoughts:

Supervisors: Important for Engagement. Motivation. Innovation. - Performance Management Company Supervisors are critically important for engagement, motivation and innovation. Are we optimizing the impacts?

I posted up a new blog that wraps organizational culture and collaboration around my recent trip to The Galapagos. I would love your thoughts on whether this could be improved but I think I share solid ideas.

Learning Lessons from The Galapagos - Culture - Performance Management Company My trips to The Galapagos have generated interesting Learning Lessons for me about people and organizational culture. Much like organizations, these islands

Scott has been blogging a LOT in the past week. With over 600 old articles on the blog and a new website for publishing, there were a lot of bad links and missing images and such on a lot of the good writings.

A few I have updated and a couple he will redo and post as new. Almost all of his writings focus on people and performance, and mostly involve teambuilding and facilitation of things related to people and performance.

Check out our blog for the newest ones and he will continue to republish those that he thinks add to the discussions around improving collaboration and performance improvement.

Blog - Performance Management Company Performance Management Company offers useful tools for improving engagement and teamwork, innovation and creativity.

IF you got a leader to learn to facilitate a game positively and through engaging their people, would that same new set of behaviors transfer to how they normally operate? Cognitive Dissonance Theory (and a couple of other models) suggest that this would happen.

Can we improve leadership behavior by teaching managers how to lead The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine online version? Here is a short video about the virtual version of the game:

Lost Dutchman Virtual Teambuilding Game Teaser LD-V will contain all of the philosophies, fundamentals, engaging fun and powerful debriefing points that exist in the original, live version of the game. We...