Writings and Articles -- This is a VERY extensive collection of articles, exercises and games, surveys, Gack recipes, song lyrics and other support stuff. Many of these involve use of metaphors and particularly our Square Wheels® Concepts. Some of this content includes the links below: Interview with Scott on Leadership and Square Wheels Scott's Change Model for individuals and teams Thoughts on dealing with Resistance to Change and Negativism Managers as Facilitators - a list of reasons, rationale and benefits Some thinking about organizational alignment Simple thoughts on Facilitation 17 Pointers for Managing Virtual Teams by Kevin McMahan Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny - On Successful Implementation The Cave of Square Wheels - Organizations and Innovation Serious Information about Copyrights and Trademarks Copyright Explained! (A Funny!) (Serious stuff on copyright HERE) The Square Wheels Taxonomy of Cognitive Dissonance and Intellectual Creative Synthesis; Theoretical Underpinnings and Conceptual Frameworks - The Rationale In The Beginning - a humorous tale of upward communications Hot Times at Burger King Team Building! - Firewalking burns the feet of Burger King participants!
Thoughts on High Performing Teams - Scott's article on FLOW (download a pdf file)
An article on X-Teams and collaboration and optimization of teamwork (download)
My Best Work: Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly - Ideas on Managing and Leading Change
Download a series of pdf pages that show my presentation at the ASHRM Conference in Egypt (Febuary 2008) entitled Nobody Ever Washes a Rental Car - Motivating People and Engaging Ownership for Optimizing Performance (download)Performance Consulting: Thought-provoking perspective on human capital
Power-Up Your Organization - Dis-Un-Empowerment
Managing Roadblocks - A Dis-Un-Empowerment Exercise on leading improvement discussions
Working Home, Selling Globally - Personal philosophy of building a global business.
From presentations at ASTD and other conferencesQuotes and Useful Thoughts - A summary of my Main Presentation Quotes
Impressive Talking about Team Building that exemplifies conceptualistic innuendo
The Mosquito Metaphor - A Square Wheels process to deal with annoying workplace behavior
They Can't See The Forest... - A Short Story
The Moose Joke! - Scott's favorite and best closer!
Some of the links here were lost as different newspapers deleted files. I will rebuild one day!
Exceptional Consulting Resources and Links
- links to consultants and other resources known to Scott Simmerman and viewed useful
Experiential Games - Links to Products for Team Building and Experiential Learning
Jokes, Factoids, Quotes and Other Funnies
MBTI-Type Prayers (Very Funny!!)
Resources and Ideas on Coaching
Resources for Creativity and Creative Thinking
Resources for Building Your Consulting Business
Information on Performances using Music - by Laurie Hughes of ASCAP
Articles on Consulting and Business Development updated
Interesting Articles and links to Personality Tests and Inventories
On Issues of Privacy and a Pending Problem (click here)
Information on Copyright and Protecting Your Business
OUCH!! - Customer Service War Stories