Employee Engagement Zingers

Happy New Year. 

At Slacker Manager I recently wrote about September 1st. as New Year’s Day.  I offered 5 keys for a New Year. I wish you full engagement in the coming year…
Another fresh new year is here…
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
William Arthur Ward

Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #23

Do you hear what I hear?
Who are you listening to in relationship to employee engagement? You can listen to the work of management consultants or university professors but I encourage you to go to the source. Listen to the people in your family and workplace.
Here are 4 snippets I heard [...]

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 [...]

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 #19
Have you thought about how the world and work is changing and what this means to employees, leaders and organizations who want to foster and maintain high levels of employee engagement?
I encourage you to view these 67 slides on change - shiftHappens:
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After viewing the slides what are you thoughts and ideas about [...]

We become distinct by avoiding creating distinctions:
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at [...]

rosita
Benjamin Zander is a master of engagement. His passion for music and to bring out the best is very inspirational. Read the following statement he makes as he coaches a student:
We are about contribution, that’s what our job is … everyone was clear you contributed passion to the people in this room. Did you do [...]

 
Do you see relaxation as the opposite of work and effort? Perhaps you believe relaxation is something you do after work? I believe we perform at our best when we relax into work or performance. Our thinking can prohibit engagement or prolong emlpoyee disengagement.
Here is a short paragraph from J. J. Gibbs, Dancing With Your Books: The [...]

Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #13
A key principle from Made to Stick is to make your ideas sticky with a concrete approach. When you pour out abstractions or general ideas go the next step by transforming them into statements that are particular and individual.
The benefit of making employee engagement concrete is in helping employees understand and remember the [...]

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 [...]