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They’re at the Post: 400 Articles on Employee Engagement and Strength Based Leadership »

By David Zinger on Sep 22, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments

400!
400 Posts. This is the 400th. post of Employee Engagement Zingers. This number has been achieved one post at a time and I hope that you have found the writing helpful for employee engagement, strength based leadership, and general life engagement.
Leader/Manager Focus. I plan to make some changes later this fall. You will find more [...]

Popular Talk About Employee Engagement »

By David Zinger on Sep 18, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments

Here are the 6 top conversations (forums) at The Employee Engagement Network.
Join us and jump into the conversation.
Forum #6: Employee Engagement Advice in One Sentence 42 Replies
In one sentence only, write the best employee engagement advice you would give to an organization.
Started by David Zinger in Weekly Forum. Last reply by Khalid Ibrahim Sep [...]

Strength Based Leadership: Engagement and Relationship »

By David Zinger on Sep 16, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 3 Comments

Working with both relationships and results in high stress conditions

by David Zinger
Getting Up and Getting Back. Leadership and engagement are more than getting to the top or the mountain or achieving quarterly results. We need to come down from our heights and establish connections with others.
Brotherhood of the rope. This site’s original focus was on strength [...]

Essential Employee Engagement: Connections! »

By David Zinger on Sep 15, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments

Michael Stallard and I had a wonderful conversation on the power of connection in employee engagement. The 30 minute webinar includes a few slides and lots of ideas.  Listen or listen and watch the webinar by clicking on the screen image below, or click here.
You’ll need to register with BrightTALK but this will also give [...]

Pausing for Full Engagement »

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 [...]

Study Alltop’s 125 Great Career Feeds for Career Development and Employee Engagement »

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 [...]

This is URGENT »

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 [...]

Webcast September 11 with Michael Stallard »

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 [...]

Will You Die Happy Today? »

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 [...]

Create Employee Engagement Breakthroughs »

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 [...]

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    • Cycle of Life: Trash Into Treasure?
      Recycling experiences. As you travel through life do you mistakenly perceive tough events and experiences as life’s garbage to be tossed away on to some distant trash heap? Have you thought about what experiences and events you might be able to recycle for new learning or personal growth and development? What have you learned from tough [...]
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      Do you match? Who do you bump into who lights you up? Who adds excitement and bounce into your life? Who do you flip for? Don’t let life tilt you, get in the game and have some fun. Photo Credit: 10 Points When Lit by http://flickr.com/photos/anythreewords/336903507/
    • What is your 6-word happiness story?
      Can you find or explain your happiness in 6 words? I love the pithy 6-word story. Here is a short video that I found on Samantha Wood’s site. The Insider, I encourage you to watch the short video before composing your 6 word story: Six-Word Memoir book preview from SMITHmag on Vimeo. Here is my first attempt at [...]
    • Presents in the Present
      Thich Nhat Hahn, the buddhist monk from Vietnam, wrote an article in the Time of India on Touch the Present Moment. Here are the first two paragraphs. I encourage you to click here to take a short trip to India and read the rest of the article: If you want to live, live in the present moment. If [...]
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      Don ‘t hurry. Don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So don’t forget to stop and smell the roses. ~ Walter Hagen (Golfer)
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      Do you water your flowers or are your flowers in water? What do you reflect and what is reflected in you? Photo Credit: yellow-eyed water creatures by http://flickr.com/photos/stevewall/2116369962/
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      I enjoyed the following slideshare presentation on how do you hide an elephant. I hope you enjoy the slides, and as you do, I hope you’ll also think about how you might just be hiding happiness from yourself. How to hide an Elephant View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: photoshop worth1000)
    • Death: Don’t Be Embarrassed
      I encourage you to read this thoughtful and entertaining post by Jerry Pounds from Sailing to Byzantium. The post is called Death Can Be Embarrassing. Here is a paragraph from his post: Well, I hope this get you motivated to do something with your life so that you can have a respectable death. Even if you [...]
    • Weed This: Gutter Tonglen
      How do you get your mind out of the gutter? This image makes me think of Buddhist tonglen perspectives on transformations of tough situations and thoughts. In the tonglen practice of giving and receiving, we take on, through compassion all the various mental and physical sufferings of all beings: their fear, frustration, pain, anger, guilt, bitterness, doubt, [...]
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      Tree of Light According to a study by Prof. Ronit Peled from the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: “We can carefully say that experiencing more than one severe and/or mild to moderate life event is a risk factor for breast cancer among young women. On the other hand, a general feeling [...]

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