Category: Leadership
By David Zinger on Oct 9, 2008 in David Zinger, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Zengagement | 0 Comments
Noah Goldstein, Steve Martin and Robert Cialdini, wrote Yes!
Yes! outlines 50 scientifically proven ways to be persuasive.
If you want to influence others to higher levels of employee engagement strive to enhance your request with the personal touch.
An ounce of personalized extra effort is worth a pound of persuasion. the more personalized you make a request, [...]
By David Zinger on Mar 24, 2008 in Employee Engagement, Engagement, Leadership, Management, Monday Morning Percolator, Strength Based Leadership, Strengths, Techniques | 2 Comments
Are you using your strengths in the service of results and your organization every day?
Have you taken a strength inventory? Quick, what were your strengths?
Chances are you have not even taken this baby step in workplace strength development. And if you did, chances are that you got a list that is sitting in some binder [...]
By David Zinger on Jan 23, 2008 in Disengagement, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Management, Workplace Engagement, Zengagement | 1 Comment
Sometimes I get angry when I hear leaders or managers talk about employee engagement as something for employees or “those people” while neglecting or forgetting that they are employees too!
When we are divided or disconnected how can we expect anything different than disengagement.
To be humble is not to make comparsions. Secure in its reality, the [...]
By David Zinger on Jan 9, 2008 in Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Management, Techniques | 4 Comments
The Cluetrain Manifesto is about the end of business as usual. Conversations matter and human interaction is the key.
The authors present 95 theses about the changes in business. I encourage you to view the slide-show of the 95 theses and think about them in relationship to employee engagement and internal communication and marketing within the [...]
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 Nov 21, 2007 in David Zinger, Disengagement, Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Leadership, Management, Workplace Engagement | 0 Comments
Can you make employee engagement simple?
John Maeda. a professor in MIT’s Meida Lab, is the master of simplicity. He wrote a compelling book, The Laws of Simplicity.
In this article I apply Maeda’s 10 laws and 3 keys of simplicity to employee engagement.
TEN LAWS
1. REDUCE. The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. What can [...]
By David Zinger on Nov 16, 2007 in Leadership, Management, Strength Based Leadership, Strengths, Video | 0 Comments
Here is the first of what will be a series of videos on Leadership Zingers.
These videos will be 1 to 3 minutes long and offer you quick tips or perspectives on leadership. The primary focus will be on the topics of strength based leadership and employee engagement.
Watch for more videos on this site and better videos as [...]
By David Zinger on Oct 25, 2007 in David Zinger, Leadership, Personal Engagement, Strength Based Leadership, Zengagement | 0 Comments
Leadership is a way of life and a conversation.
The great question about leadership, about taking real steps on the pilgrim’s path, is the great question of any individual life: how to make everything more personal. How to understand life or leadership not as an abstract path involving devious strategies but more like an inhabitation, a [...]
By David Zinger on Oct 19, 2007 in Employee Engagement, Leadership, Management, Workplace Engagement | 1 Comment
Michelle Malay Carter writes an engaging and clear blog about management. She wrote a recent post on Misguided Motivation Attempts - Put Down that Carrot and that Stick and that Hot Dog.
Thank you Michelle, I am so tired of seeing books or articles that pair motivation with carrots. We are not rabbits and the only [...]
By David Zinger on Oct 18, 2007 in David Zinger, Employee Engagement, Leadership | 0 Comments
Does employee engagement = customer loyalty?
Here is a short snippet from PR News Online:
I see this as an enormous opportunity for communications executives, as they are the common denominator – at least they should be – in every business function; after all, they have their hands in employee, customer, media investor and human relations, internal [...]
