Zengage Countdown: Day Eight – Engage Alertness

Zengage Countdown: Day Nine – Engage Action

Read Zengage

Advance Acclaim:

“Don’t just “read” Zengage. Savor it line by line. Come back to it again and again. You will learn or remember how to more fully engage with your work. And you may smile a lot. I did.”
~Dick Richards
Change Agent, author of Is Your Genius at Work?

Excerpt from Zengage (page 17)

Engage Action
No problem.
Employee engagement is an experience to be lived not a problem to be solved.
This is the real answer to a problem we do not have.
Remember, work is no problem.

Sample of the Book. If you would like to see a short sample of Zengage, click here.

Official Launch September 9. David Zinger’s book Zengage will be officially launched on September 9th.  You can get more information or purchase the book today by clicking here.

Your purchase results in 100% donation to Pakistan Flood Relief. Purchasing before September 9th will result in a significant contribution to Pakistan Flood Relief. 50% of the proceeds from the book will go to Pakistan Flood Relief and currently the Canadian government is matching individual donations so this will result in 100% of the proceeds being used for flood relief.

David Zinger, M.Ed., works with organizations and individuals to foster engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 2900+ member Employee Engagement Network. David’s new book, Zengage: How to Get More Into Your Work to Get More Out of Your Work will be released September 9th.  David’s website offers 1100 free posts/articles on the engagement. David is committed to fostering a movement to increase employee engagement 20% by 2020.

Connect with David Zinger today to improve engagement where you work.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  -  Phone 204 254 2130  -  Website: www.davidzinger.com

Zengage Countdown: Day 10 – Engage Connection

Read Zengage

Advance Acclaim:

In Zengage, David Zinger has succeeded in communicating his vast knowledge and wisdom with the brevity of a Zen haiku and the heart of a humanist. This is a book that guides through wisdom and information while remaining totally engaging. ~ Judy Bardwick, Author of Danger in the Comfort Zone and One Foot Out of the Door.

Excerpt from Zengage (page 38)

Engage Connection

Stop Going Around in Circles.

Join the circle of self with the circle of work until the two become one.

Sample of the Book. If you would like to see a short sample of Zengage, click here.

Official Launch September 9. David Zinger’s book Zengage will be officially launched on September 9th.  You can get more information or purchase the book today by clicking here.

Your purchase results in 100% donation to Pakistan Flood Relief. Purchasing before September 9th will result in a significant contribution to Pakistan Flood Relief. 50% of the proceeds from the book will go to Pakistan Flood Relief and currently the Canadian government is matching individual donations so this will result in 100% of the proceeds being used for flood relief.

David Zinger, M.Ed., works with organizations and individuals to foster engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 2880 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s new book, Zengage: How to Get More Into Your Work to Get More Out of Your Work will be released September 9th.  David’s website offers 1100 free posts/articles on the engagement. David is committed to fostering a movement to increase employee engagement 20% by 2020.

Connect with David Zinger today to improve engagement where you work.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  -  Phone 204 254 2130  -  Website: www.davidzinger.com

Employee Engagement and Getting Results the Agile Way

Focus on Agile Results to Enhance Employee Engagement

J. D Meier has crafted an insightful and practical book on Getting Results the Agile Way. He is  a principal program manager for the patterns & practices team at Microsoft and the author of the wonderful blog: Sources of Insight. I have always found his work thorough, thoughtful, and helpful. This book is certainly no exception and I encourage you to study and apply Getting Results the Agile Way to enhance your employee engagement and work results.

Here is a list of the books key chapters:

• Chapter 1 – Why Agile Results
• Chapter 2 – Agile Results Overview
• Chapter 3 – Values, Principles, and Practices
• Chapter 4 – Hot Spots
• Chapter 5 – Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection
• Chapter 6 – Design Your Day
• Chapter 7 – Design Your Week
• Chapter 8 – Design Your Month
• Chapter 9 – Design Your Year
• Chapter 10 – Results Frame, Personas, and Pitfalls
• Chapter 11 – 25 Keys to Results
• Chapter 12 – 25 Strategies for Results
• Chapter 13 – Motivation
• Chapter 14 – Mindsets and Metaphors

3 Power. Overall the book offers stories, scenario-driven results, and timeboxing, to improve your productivity, master your time management, and achieve work-life balance. Readers are encouraged to apply the power of 3 for simplicity, structure, and success. We feel so overloaded that 3 stories for the day or 3 tasks for the year gives us great focus. I have always appreciated the use of 3 and have a 3 word theme each year. This year my 3 word theme is: Engage, Mobilize, and Produce.

Boundaries. J.D. encourages us to set boundaries on our work. Here is a sample snippet from an online version of the book:

Boundaries are simply minimums and maximums. Setting boundaries is a key to success. You’ll produce more effective results by spending the right time and energy on the right things. You can set boundaries with time; for example, tell yourself, “I’ll spend no more than an hour on that.” You can set boundaries in terms of energy; for example, tell yourself, “I’ll stop when I start to feel tired.” Most people trip up by not setting boundaries. They’ll work on something until they crash. They throw all their time in one area at the expense of other areas. Setting boundaries is how you can add balance to your life. You can spread your time and energy across the important Hot Spots.

I find setting boundaries a very helpful tool. It helps me get working on a task without it feeling overwhelming. For example, I set a boundary of 45 minutes to write and revise this review before I started and this eliminated any procrastination or dithering about this task.

Get Agile. Get Results. The key to achieving great results is learning and responding to change. Existing methods of planning and goal setting are heavy and static, and they just aren’t working anymore. Agile Results provides fresh starts for your work. I encourage you to start this September by applying the wisdom J. D. Meier offers in his book packed with practical strategies, tactics, and tools. I have read the book once and I plan to keep coming back to it over the next year to distill and practice getting results with great agility. I feel very confident that practicing Getting Results the Agile Way would be a huge step to enhancing employee engagement for anyone!

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David Zinger, M.Ed., works with organizations and individuals to foster engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 2880 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s new book, Zengage: How to Get More Into Your Work to Get More Out of Your Work will be released September 9th.  David’s website offers 1100 free posts/articles on the engagement. David is committed to fostering a movement to increase employee engagement 20% by 2020.

Connect with David Zinger today to improve engagement where you work.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  -  Phone 204 254 2130  -  Website: www.davidzinger.com

Working Zingers: Strategy Thinking Through Napkin Artistry

Napkin Futures

Tabling strategy.

Gel pens drawn

during fast food lunch

sparking napkin artistry.

Ink bleeds

arrows, words, and stick figures

into thin paper.

Absorbing both

strategic thinking

and mustard drips

oozing from the overflowing cheeseburger.

It is going to be a good year.

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David Zinger, M.Ed., works with organizations and individuals to foster engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 2880 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s book, Zengage: How to Get More Into Your Work to Get More Out of Your Work will be released this September.  David’s website offers 1100 free posts/articles on the engagement. David is committed to fostering a movement to increase employee engagement 20% by 2020.

Connect with David Zinger today to improve engagement where you work.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  -  Phone 204 254 2130  -  Website: www.davidzinger.com