By David Zinger on Jul 23, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 4 Comments
Take it Out
by David Zinger
What do we need to remove or take out to foster more employee engagement in our organizations? If you have done this already, I would especially love to read your answer and you can click on the comment link right under the title of this post and let me know what […]
By David Zinger on Jul 21, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Watch and listen to this one minute video as Daniel Pink encourages you to exercise your creativity at work.
Click here if the video does not open in this window.
By David Zinger on Jul 20, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
There is a very engaging employee engagement conference in Chicago on July 31 to August 1. Michael Lee Stallard, will be providing a keynote address and his book for all participants during lunch on the second day. Click here for more information and if you enter the following code iee2for1dz - two participants can register […]
By David Zinger on Jul 18, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 5 Comments
We’ve got to stop leaving like this…
by David Zinger
Leigh Branham with the cooperation of the Saratoga Institute wrote The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave.
This book is based on research of over 19,000 employees. the book is almost 3 years old but I believe many of the reasons employees leave still seem to be “hidden” from many […]
By David Zinger on Jul 17, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
I received the following comment from Michael Lee Stallard on the Peter Drucker article I wrote earlier this week.
Thank you for this post. Reading Peter Drucker’s “Managing Oneself” and his biography “Adventures of Bystander” had a profound effect on me. I wrote a tribute to him following his death. Here’s the link:
http://www.epluribuspartners.com/pages/articles/DruckerRemembered.pdf
Michael stated that Drucker’s […]
By David Zinger on Jul 16, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
This post from April 2006 outlined my 3rd strength from the VIA Signature Strength Inventory. When we live our strengths we are more engaged.
I love this inventory as there is not charge to complete it and the strengths are general enough that you can use them in many situations. I hope this article encourage you […]
By David Zinger on Jul 15, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 1 Comment
I encourage you to watch this 5 minute video of Oscar Peterson playing and playing with Sweet Georgia Brown. This is an exceptional model of someone fully engaged in their work and watch the respect of the bass players as they watch Oscar play.
Have you ever engaged this fully in your work - so much […]
By David Zinger on Jul 14, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 1 Comment
This blog/site began on November 11, 2005. This July and August I want to reprint some of my favorite posts. This is the post that began it all on Canada’s Remembrance Day. This site’s primary focus for the first year was strength based leadership. Strong leadership that also brings out the strengths of employees is […]
By David Zinger on Jul 10, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
What’s the big idea?
Here is a brief except from the TED organization on the power of ideas:
There is no greater force for changing the world than a powerful idea. Consider:
An idea can be created out of nothing except an inspired imagination.
An idea weighs nothing.
It can be transferred across the world at the speed of […]