David Zinger Employee Engagement

Employee Engagement: Use Story not PowerPoint

Are you using story to create, foster, and enhance employee engagement within your organization. Robert McKee is a master of story. He offers a short insightful video look at the power of story to engage. Are you relying too much on data data, authority authority Are you relying too much on coercion: bribe, bully, coerce? Are you making use of story? Robert provides us with a strong 6 minute powerful "PowerPointless" video on how to use story to engage. He concludes with the comment, "I'd rather hear a fact woven beautifully into a story than look at a pie chart." If the video fails to load in ...

Engage Now: Gabrielle Bouliane

I encourage you to take 5 minutes - how seldom on the Internet we will stay anywhere for 5 minutes - but I encourage you to take 5 minutes to watch and listen to Gabrielle Bouliane performing slam poetry on engage now. Here is the description that accompanies the YouTube video: The lovely and amazing performance poet Gabrielle Bouliane performs for the audience at the Austin Poetry Slam. This would be her last public performance. Gabrielle was diagnosed with Stage Four Cancer shortly before this video was filmed. Our dear sister fought hard, but she ended her fight January 29, 2010. She was surrounded ...

Today At Work – Episode 45

Employee Engagement: Major Marshall Mojo

Mojo = Employee Engagement. Are you ready for major Marshall Goldsmith Mojo? Marshall's Mojo. Are you working with Mojo and does your work give you Mojo? Marshall Goldsmith's latest book is called Mojo. My mental image of Mojo is often something coming from a 7 foot 260 pound NBA player driving to the net so it is intriguing to watch the gentle but tenacious CEO coach with a Buddhist background, Marshall Goldsmith, focus on Mojo. Mojo and Nojo. Here is a  diagram from one of Marshall Goldsmith's Business Week posts last year: Mojo defined.  Marshall Goldsmith explained Mojo in his latest newsletter: My definition of ...

22 Employee Engagement Eclectic Resource Zingers (#7)

Get engaged. From positive psychology on empowerment at work to a 5 second tea break and from accountability muscle to inclusion, flexibility, and creativity to turn workplaces around. Also, a field guide to change agents and how we see ourselves as stories. Positive psychology view of empowerment at work. http://bit.ly/9xFcs6 Great Break. Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes. http://bit.ly/9xF43T How to face your critics from John Baldoni, HBR. http://bit.ly/cz1ANq A transtional/transformational experience to being laid off. Lemonade the movie. http://bit.ly/aTwQv9 Walden 2.0. Poetry. Warsaw. Etc. ...

The Employee Engagement Network: 2 Years and 2000 Members

THE source for employee engagement. I am thrilled at the unanticipated success of The Employee Engagement Network. A Saturday afternoon experiment. I started this community 2 years ago on January 26th., 2008. It began as a Saturday afternoon experiment. My motive was to learn more about social networks for business and to see if I could gather 50 to 100 people together on the topic of Employee Engagement. I succeeded on both counts! Our 2000th. member. Bev Mate - a director of competency development for HR in New York - is our 2000th member. Of course she would not be 2000th without ...

Employee Engagement Bardzo

Warsaw 2010 Frigid January in Warsaw walking down windy frozen streets in the city leveled to ruin and rubble (1945). Chopin pieces play from push button street benches giving note to his 200th birthday. As the frozen mermaid stands guard singing a song of resilient rejuvenation. Walking in Warsaw I realize we can rebuild, we can always rebuild. There is no quit in Warsaw Warszawa - Dziękuję bardzo .

Walden 2.0: Daily Employee Engagement Project Week 3 & 4

The Walden 2.010 Project (Week 3 & 4) Employees need to monitor and receive daily engagement data. We cannot withhold employee engagement data from employees if we expect data to become a measure and a motivator of engagement. Daily employee engagement. This is a weekly reporting of a one year project monitoring, measuring, and assessing daily employee engagement. You can see the  original project plan, intention, measures and tools by  clicking here. Challenged in week 3 and 4. Week 3 and 4 became more of a challenge in the daily monitoring of employee engagement. Part of the reason was a trip to ...

15 Employee Engagement Eclectic Resource Zingers (#6)

Read this eclectic group of resources to learn ideas ranging from wicked action for democracy to  appreciating and building a white paper with images. Wicked PDF. How can we use cooperative action & deliberative democracy to make life better? http://bit.ly/dt5jHa How do you engage people not to wear pants on the subway? http://bit.ly/baTlrs Make your model sharper. Rajesh Setty. http://bit.ly/aaUxX3 Take Me to Pandora, or The Positive Psychology of Avatar by Louis Alloro http://bit.ly/9UuxX9 Engaging Work Dialogues. Another close look at dialogue ...

Student Engagment, Media Engagement, and Learning in this Decade

A terrific slide share presentation by Rodd Lucier: Let's Ban Chalk. There are lessons to be learned here for employee engagement. We will need team leaders, architects, P.R. specialists, espionage experts, and C.F.O.s: Lets Ban Chalk View more documents from Rodd Lucier.

Today At Work – Episode 44

Thinking About Social Media: Thanks to Gary Hayes

We who are involved in employee engagement must understand the changes that social media is creating for employees and engagement. Gary Hayes created this terrific collection of 1000 quotations relating to social media: