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By David Zinger on Dec 31, 2007 in Canada, David Zinger, Employee Engagement, Employee Engagement Chronicle, Engagement, Leadership, Strength Based Leadership, Video, Workplace Engagement, Zengagement | 0 Comments
Here is an outline of my top 10 Employee Engagement articles for the last six months of 2007.
They are my favorite articles out of a possible 84 articles I wrote since July. I chose them based on how helpful they can be to the reader and how they also express my specific perspectives on employee [...]
By David Zinger on Jul 16, 2007 in Canada, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Leadership, Management, Personal Engagement | 2 Comments
Employees’ direct relationships with their bosses are one of the most important factors in fostering employee engagement. But what if the boss is bad, and that boss is you?
Joseph Libertia has written a fine short post on how to overcome Bad Boss syndrome with emotional intelligence. He cites the common statement that people don’t leave [...]
By David Zinger on Jul 2, 2007 in Canada, David Zinger, Disengagement, Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Monday Morning Percolator, Personal Engagement, Workplace Engagement | 2 Comments
Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #20
TIME OUT!
This is the week with July 4th in the United States and Canada Day, on July 1, in Canada. Many people, especially with children, use July to start their summer holidays and students have a long “time out” from school. I hope you have or had a good time on your [...]
By David Zinger on May 8, 2007 in Canada, Employee Engagement, Workplace Engagement | 0 Comments
Fear not!
The 7 Olympic quarters offered as the prize in my last post are not the “spy” quarters that created the U.S. Defence Department warnings. The olympic quarters show peaceful Canadians engaged either in curling or hockey. Okay, hockey isn’t necessarily peaceful but it is not exactly espionage either.
Here is the snippet of the story:
WASHINGTON — An odd-looking [...]
By David Zinger on May 7, 2007 in Canada, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Monday Morning Percolator, Personal Engagement, Workplace Engagement | 4 Comments
Employee Engagement Monday Morning Percolator #12
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
This is the third in the series of articles outlining the employee engagement application of Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath. Dan Heath in an interview in Tom Peter’s Cool Friends stated that [...]
By David Zinger on Apr 24, 2007 in Books, Canada, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Personal Engagement | 0 Comments
Inspire yourself. A major inspiration for employee engagement comes from within. Are you relaxed enough to perform at your best?
Dr. Saul Miller wrote a wonderful little book in 1990. I encourage you to read it if you want to feel freer, lighter, more alive and at ease.
Each of us has a personal connection to an [...]
By David Zinger on Apr 21, 2007 in Canada, Disengagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Leadership, Workplace Engagement | 2 Comments
Can employee engagement lead to employee disengagement?
I felt sad reading how the Saskatchewan labour relations board put a halt to employee engagement activities for SGI, an insurance company in Saskatchewan. The sadness was that the very concept that could enrich the workplace for all had become a source of dispute between the organization’s management and union.
Here [...]
By David Zinger on Apr 18, 2007 in Canada, Disengagement, Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement Statistics, Workplace Engagement | 0 Comments
According to Shepell-fgi research group: Money not only isn’t everything - it isn’t the main thing when it comes to motivating employees.
How people are treated and how they view their managers have almost twice the impact on motivation and results compared to pay and benefits. Money does not appear to enhance productivity.
Rob Phillips, CEO of Shepell-fgi stated:
We [...]
By David Zinger on Apr 9, 2007 in Canada, Disengagement, Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Engagement Statistics, Leadership, Management, Monday Morning Percolator, Workplace Engagement | 2 Comments
If you are a leader here is an important multiple choice question. Your answer may indicate the role you play in your employees’ level of disengagement.
As a manager, my interactions with employees surrounding their performance is the following:
a. who has time to talk with employees about this kind of stuff?
b. we talk about how to [...]
By David Zinger on Mar 29, 2007 in Canada, Disengagement, Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement Statistics, Leadership, Management, Workplace Engagement | 2 Comments
Nine and thirty-nine - from http://www.flickr.com/photos/emdot/
We often think people of different generations are bad drivers. Older drivers look at younger drivers in disdain while younger drivers think older drivers should get off the road.
Yet, when it comes to employee engagement Watson Wyatt just released data to suggest that different generations share the same engagement drivers [...]
