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By David Zinger on Sep 13, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Remember to pause and take care of your health. I love to insert pictures from Elizabeth Perry’s daily drawing at woolgathering.
I appreciate her daily discipline and the simple elegance of the things she draws. I encourage you to take a few moments before clicking away to appreciate the image. Use it as a micro-moment disengagement [...]
By David Zinger on Sep 12, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Career development is a very important part of effective employee engagement. We must manage our own career to enhance and enrich our level of engagement at work. If we are disengaged the following career blogs can help us determine our next actions or chart a new course.
Here are the first 14 of the 125 outstanding blogs displayed on [...]
By David Zinger on Sep 10, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 2 Comments
Welcome back Kotter: A Sense of Urgency
by David Zinger
John Kotter has done a lot of work to help us manage and navigate through organizational change. Kotter is back with A Sense of Urgency.
Kotter maintains the number one problem organizations face when trying to execute change is creating a sense of urgency. We need to create [...]
By David Zinger on Sep 10, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Micheal Stallard wrote a wonderful book on employee engagement: Fired Up or Burned Out. Michael knows that connections are the keys to engagement and he does a wonderful job of keeping this at the top of our minds (and hearts).
I have the honor of joining Michael on Thursday September 11 at 11 a.m. Eastern time [...]
By David Zinger on Sep 9, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 4 Comments
If today was you last day, would you die happy today?
This is not meant as a fluffy question where you go out and seize buckets of lists or yell Latin phrases such as carpe diem at the top of your lungs. It is meant more as the first wake up call of the day before [...]
By David Zinger on Sep 8, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
I love the breadth of manifestos available at www.changethis.com. This is one of my favorite spots to check each month on the Internet as new manifesto are published early each month.
Mitch Ditkoff wrote a helpful manifesto if you are trying to develop breakthrough ideas.
Here are 5 of the 17 ideas that Mitch offers the reader:
Follow your [...]
By David Zinger on Sep 6, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Full employee engagement demands rest, recovery, and rejuvenation.
Of course a good cup of coffe on the weeknd keeps me going for the weekend activities.
Have a sip, enjoy, and re-engage on Monday.
Photo Credit: http://www.elizabethperry.com/woolgathering/2008/09/coffee-1.html
By David Zinger on Sep 5, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 10 Comments
Employee Engagement Rants x 6
by David Zinger
What gets to you about employee engagement? Here are 6 things that are getting to me right now:
Let’s stop calling it employee engagement. It seems when we call it employee engagement that we blame employees for not being engaged, we are blind to the fact that leaders and managers [...]
By David Zinger on Sep 3, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Sybil F. Stershic posted an interview with me about employee engagement on her site: Quality Service Marketing. I appreciated the questions she asked and the points we discussed.
Click here to read the interview.
While you are there, I encourage you to view the rest of her site and read the other fine work and articles she [...]
By David Zinger on Sep 2, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 2 Comments
I believe leaders will need to develop or heighten their social intelligence if they want to enhance and improve employee engagement in their organizations.
Social intelligence, the latest development and transformation from emotional intelligence includes: empathy, attunement, organizational awareness, influence, developing others, inspiration, and teamwork.
I encourage you to watch this 10 minute video of Daniel Goleman [...]
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT enriches everyone in the workplace. It is not sucking out more discretionary effort from employees.
Authentic employee engagement must function for the benefit of all: employees, leaders, organizations, and customers.
Employees have higher levels of satisfaction and contribution. Leaders are connected with employees and engaged themselves. The organization is functioning the way it should and customers are receiving the service they deserve.
Ultimately everyone is getting results that matter to them.
When this occurs, employee engagement transforms into a more powerful force --- workplace engagement.
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