Employee Engagement Zingers

If an employee leaves an organization there is nothing left to do to foster employee engagement.
How do you enhance employee retention?

Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #24

How do you create a breakthrough to achieve fuller employee engagement for yourself and the people you work with? Often we feel stuck or disengaged. We want a breakthrough. But we are not sure how to proceed or even get started.
Lisa Haneberg offers a solution in her book: Two Weeks [...]

Retire now: Weave retirement into your work even if you are in your 20s
In about 10 years the number of young people getting into the workplace will no longer be enough to replace retirees.
Tim Cork, a career coach, stated in The Globe and Mail, “if you are fifty-something and you can expect to live into [...]

Employee Engagement Monday Morning Percolator #21

At the turn of this century, the Campbell Soup Company’s employee engagement was not “mmm mmm good.” In addition, soup sales were stagnant and the stock was slumping. The executive wanted to assess employee engagement but many employees, including managers, did not want to complete the anonymous Gallup employee engagement questionnaire [...]

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 [...]

 
Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #16
by David Zinger
Stories engage us and we can foster engagement with stories. This is the final of 6 reviews about the book: Made to Stick. Make your ideas sticky by making them simple, unexpected, concrete, credible and emotional as you communicate your ideas within stories.
Stories are a way to embrace the principles of [...]

Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #15 (Early release)
by David Zinger
If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will. ~ Mother Teresa
Don’t let your employee engagement messages go to the dogs or lull people to sleep.
How do we provide emotional rescue to ensure that people care about [...]

 
Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #14
The key concept from chapter four of  Made to Stick is to make your ideas “edible” by you and the idea being credible.  Employees will bite into employee engagement when they trust the message and the messenger. As a leader you need to establish and leverage trust in the name of employee [...]

 
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. ~ Heny David Thoreau
In the large pond of workers are you suffering from employee disengagement or hearing your song of engagement? Read my review of the third video of Marcus Buckingham’s Trombone Player Wanted for some guidance [...]

zen perspectives on employee engagement
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic and, to some extent, even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.
Thomas Szasz

Well, well, well. If you work well you may be well at work. Instead of a vicious cycle of disengagement work may [...]