By David Zinger on Jul 2, 2009 in Employee Engagement, Leadership, Wednesday at Work Poems | 1 Comment
The Pathway to Personal Branding
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Are you branded?
Painted and tainted by marketing mavens.
Packaged like a box of Tide
Until soap stings your eyes
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Can you be a personal brand without
a logo
a swoosh
a blog
a tweet
or a tightly rehearsed 30 second elevator speech?
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Would you ever want to be stuck
in an elevator
sealed in as the door closes
and your 13-floor traveling companion
regales [...]
By David Zinger on Jul 1, 2009 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
What Canada Could Be
Dave Pollard wrote this wonderful piece on what Canada could be on his site: How to Save the World. I was so moved by it I asked his permission to reprint it and offer it here in celebration of Canada Day. Even if you are not from Canada it will give you [...]
By David Zinger on Jun 30, 2009 in Employee Engagement | 2 Comments
What role does energy play in employee engagement?
Do you have the energy for engagement?
Does your energy engage others?
How do you recharge for full engagement?
Rosa Say on Leadership and Management Energy. Are you using an energy lens to examine engagement in your workplace. I strongly encourage you to read Rosa Say’s recent post on 3 ways [...]
By David Zinger on Jun 29, 2009 in Employee Engagement, Engage-5 | 0 Comments
Engage 5 is a weekly feature of Employee Engagement Zingers. Engage-5 asks leading thinkers, writers, consultants, and others involved in employee engagement to complete 5 sentences.
Read Samantha Grant’s 5 sentences on engagement:
I define employee engagement as connectedness, inspiration, willingness to contribute to a big cause or the common good.
Our biggest challenge in employee engagement is [...]
By David Zinger on Jun 28, 2009 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Here is a very good basic slide presentation by Amir Saif on employee engagement and engaged team members:
Re Assign Team
View more presentations from Amir Saif .
By David Zinger on Jun 26, 2009 in Employee Engagement | 4 Comments
Are you a screen sucker?
Pull up the covers turn on the screen. According to Credant Technologies 25% of employees in Britain go to bed with their laptops, cellphones and BlackBerrys. 57% of those who work in bed work between 2 to 6 hours a week.
Good vibrations? Do you screen the very person in front of [...]
By David Zinger on Jun 25, 2009 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Here is a wonderful snippet from Jon Gordon’s blog about Will Smith’s Secret to Success.
What does a treadmill have to do with Will Smith’s success as a movie star and actor?
When asked by an interviewer to explain his success, he responded: “I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be outworked. You [...]
By David Zinger on Jun 24, 2009 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Know Your No
Do you know
your no?
Do you follow
your nose?
Or lose scent of your prey
By a confounding crisscrosses of yeses.
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Who knows
that you know
Your no?
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No need to shout
Or shake head from
left to right and back again
again and again.
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Just know
when you know
your no
you
are
also
saying
YES!
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~ by David Zinger
By David Zinger on Jun 23, 2009 in Employee Engagement | 1 Comment
Harvey Mackay writes a wonderful newsletter. In a recent edition he discussed Richard Florida’s work on Richard The Rise of the Creative Class and Flight of the Creative Class. Florida believe that about 30% of our workforce could be considered creative workers.
Florida offered the following advice for engaging your creative staff:
Everyone needs the opportunity to [...]
By David Zinger on Jun 22, 2009 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Engage 5 is a weekly feature of Employee Engagement Zingers. Engage-5 asks leading thinkers, writers, consultants, and others involved in employee engagement to complete 5 sentences.
Read Peter Leather’s 5 sentences on engagement:
I define employee engagement as feeling personally aligned to the goals of your organisation and what you need to do to make it a [...]
By David Zinger on Jun 22, 2009 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Alex Grech did a fine job of presenting the basics of Buckingham and Coffman’s classic book, First Break All the Rules.
If you have already read the book it is a nice review. If you haven’t read the book it is a great preview. And if you have little time it is a chance to [...]
