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 Phil Gerbyshak’s 5 sentences on engagement:

1. I define employee engagement as employees doing what they need to do and more without being asked, often in the best interests of the team and the company.
2. Our biggest challenge in employee engagement is it’s different for everyone, and thus it takes time to understand what it means to each associate.
3. A powerful way to create greater employee engagement is to treat each employee as the unique person they are and reward and recognize them how THEY want to be rewarded and recognized.
4. I am personally most engaged at work when I work in my strengths zone of presentations, coaching, and helping each person be their absolute best.
5. To learn more about employee engagement, I encourage people to get to know each person on their team as much as they can (and to ask each associate what engages THEM).

To learn more from, or about,  Phil Gerbyshak click here.

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 Hart’s 5 sentences on engagement:

1. I define employee engagement as employees who enjoy what they do and go above and beyond everyday because they enjoy it.
2. Our biggest challenge in employee engagement is to get our managers to engage their employees everyday.
3. A powerful way to create greater employee engagement is to know your employee’s names and their stories and speak to them everyday.
4. I am personally most engaged at work when I engage my employees one on one.
5. To learn more about employee engagement, I encourage people to read Rodd Wagner and James Harter’s book 12: The Elements of Great Managing.

To learn more from Peter Hart or to learn more about Peter Hart , click here or here.

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 Michael Kanazawa’s 5 sentences on engagement:

1. I define employee engagement as the ability to tap into the full potential and passion of each person so that they will be able to perform their best work possible on the job.
2. Our biggest challenge in employee engagement is accepting mediocrity and simple task completion instead of expecting greatness from every member on the team.
3. A powerful way to create greater employee engagement is to clarify your strategy, specify clear goals, recruit a team of top talent, and allow people to innovate and drive results.
4. I am personally most engaged at work when I have a clear goal, am allowed the freedom to innovate to achieve breakthrough results and am working with an inspired team of “A” players on that goal.
5. To learn more about employee engagement, I encourage people to approach leadership by understanding that the most direct route to driving great business performance is to infuse people with a purpose and self-confidence, not just hammer away at task lists.

You can find out more information about Michael work by visiting www.disseropartners.com and about his book at www.bigideastobigresults.com.

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 Zane Safrit’s 5 sentences on engagement:

1. I define employee engagement as the process and results of converting employees into volunteers. Employees do their job. Volunteers fulfill a purpose by adding meaning to those around them, including their customers.
2. Our biggest challenge in employee engagement is connecting, imbibing, the meaning in our brand with the meaning in the lives, or the meaning needed in the lives, of everyone it touches
3. A powerful way to create greater employee engagement is to invite your employees to make your brand, their brand. Ultimately, it is their brand.
4. I am personally most engaged at work when I when I’m given the tools and the resources tht allow me and those around me to volunteer my best.
5. To learn more about employee engagement, I encourage people to  look where they work and ask if they’d buy what they’re being sold there. Do you believe the brand promises made to you as an employee? If yes, ask how can you expand on it, share it with more people? If no, ask what promises are not being honored. And how can you change that?

To learn more from Zane Safrit or to learn more about Zane Safrit, click here.

To read how other thought leaders completed these 5 sentences, click here.

Each week another engagement thought leader completes 5 employee engagement sentences. Read Rosa Say’s Engage 5 responses:

1. I define employee engagement as when work is fully intentional, it feels useful and meaningful, and it delivers self-worth along with tangible business results.
2. Our biggest challenge in employee engagement is that management and leadership are still considered org chart roles versus self-motivational behaviors.
3. A powerful way to create greater employee engagement is to teach the financial literacy that excites and energizes those with an entrepreneurial mindset, getting people to work “on” a business and not just swallowed up “in” it.
4. I am personally most engaged with work when I’m learning, thus I must feel trusted and supported enough to play full out, “asking for forgiveness versus permission” if it gets to that point.
5. To learn more about employee engagement, I encourage people to work on improving their teaming and partnership strategies, for though we learn most from others, we rarely engage in truly collaborative conversation.

If you want to learn more about Rosa Say or learn more from Rosa Say, click here. If you would like to read the reponses of other thought leaders to the same 5 sentences, click here.

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 Deri Latimer’s 5 sentences on engagement:

1. I define employee engagement as enthusiastic connection.
2. Our biggest challenge in employee engagement is taking time to build better, more connected relationships – which leads to better, more connected productivity.
3. A powerful way to create greater employee engagement is to build in time for more purposeful connection – between managers and staff and amongst staff (morning meeting, water cooler chat, MBWA – Management By Walking Around)
4. I am personally most engaged at work when I have time to get my work done, while having fun!
5. As I learn more about employee engagement, I encourage people to pause regularly, smile often, share enthusiastically, appreciate whole-heartedly, contribute meaningfully.

Click here to learn more about Deri Latimer.

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 Tim Wright’s 5 sentences on engagement:

1. I define employee engagement as the individual’s investment of energy, skill, ability, eagerness and desire in the work performed.
2. A big challenge in employee engagement is management’s failure to see their primary role/responsibility is providing communication, opportunities and resources that stimulate engagement.
3. A powerful way to create greater engagement is to expect (require?) every manager to develop and implement a specific communication plan that stimulates employee engagement.
4. I am personally most engaged at work when I am finding specific applications and implementations for creative ideas.
5. To learn more about engagement, I encourage people to make it a common, frequent topic of conversation, formal and informal, at work.

To learn more about Tim Wright and to learn more from Tim Wright about employee engagement visit him at: http://culturetoengage.com

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 Terrence Seamon’s 5 sentences on engagement:

1. I define employee engagement as a relationship where the commitment between an employee and the organization is high, mutual, and positive.
2. A big challenge in employee engagement is maintaining engagement during difficult change.
3. A powerful way to create greater engagement is to connect with people and collaborate on creating the future.
4. I am personally most engaged at work when I am aligned with the goals and empowered to pursue them.
5. To learn more about engagement, I encourage people to join the Employee Engagement Network on ning.

Learn more from Terrence at:  http://learningvoyager.blogspot.com

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. Each person was asked to limit their sentence completion to just one sentence for each of the 5 leads.

Read Steve Roesler’s 5 sentences on engagement:

1. I define employee engagement as the desire to behave in the best interest of the organization.
2. A big challenge in employee engagement is ensuring that managers see their responsibility in creating engaging workplaces.
3. A powerful way to create greater engagement is to find out what people need and help them get it.
4. I am personally most engaged at work when I am able to use the widest range of my talents and interests.
5. To learn more about engagement, I encourage people to examine the principles behind their own peak “engagement” experiences.

I encourage you to follow Steve Roesler’s fine writing on the workplace at All Things Workplace.

Engage 5 is a new weekly feature of Employee Engagement Zingers. Engage-5 asks leading thinkers, writers, consultants, and others involved in employee engagement to complete 5 sentences. Each person was asked to limit their sentence completion to just one sentence for each of the 5 leads.

Here are the Engage-5 primers:

1. I define engagement as…
2. A big challenge in employee engagement is…
3. A powerful way to create greater engagement is to…
4. I am personally most engaged at work when I…
5. To learn more about engagement I encourage people to…

Read Ian Buckingham’s responses to the 5 employee engagement primers:

1. I define employee engagement as deep understanding and active and passionate pursuit of the goals of the business as an act of free will.
2. A big challenge in employee engagement is ensuring that key decision makers understand its relationship to performance and budget accordingly.
3. A powerful way to create greater engagement is to involve people at all levels in business critical initiatives.
4. I am personally most engaged at work when I am working in conditions in which I can be myself.
5. To learn more about engagement, I encourage people to have a go themselves.

Ian Buckingham is the author of Brand Engagement – How Employees Make or Break Brands. You can learn more about Ian and his work by visiting: www.by2w.co.uk. Ian is also an active member of the Employee Engagement Network.