Category Archives: Working Poems – Zingers

Working Zingers: Nourished at Work

Work as Soul Food: Fed or Nourished? Pizza parties piece of cake cookies too donuts dunked in copious coffee quaffed chocolates on desks stacked in Inukshuk figures guiding the way to the lunch room weaving by assorted candies scattered around the … Continue reading

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Working Zingers: Engaging Breaks

We need a break or work gets broken. Stop the constant work with a b r e a k today. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ David Zinger, M.Ed., helps organizations and individuals improve engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, … Continue reading

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Working Zingers: Work as the World Cup

GGGGGooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllll. If our work was World Cup Football we would feel the crowds around us be able to wither in pain when our proposal is rejected get yellow cards for stealing someone’s lunch out of the fridge and a red … Continue reading

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Working Zingers: Waiting

A Question of Waiting Is waiting a room you sit impatiently in feeling the weight of the world holding you back from what you seek or is waiting a space you inhabit as long as your are there? What are … Continue reading

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Working Zingers: An Expression of Courage

The course of courage Courage at work is expression not impression. Not medals but meddle into what we care about not exclusively but inclusively. Courage is the heart at work and hearty work. Rather than a course in courage courage … Continue reading

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Working Zingers: Tongue Depressant

Tongue Depressant Nobody talked As the project tanked. At least not in public. Heads bowed. Eyes averted. A few tongues bitten to avoid possible tongue lashing. There was no conversational alchemy Only a fool’s gold of thought transmuted into working … Continue reading

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Violation: What if they gave out tickets at work?

Work Zone Ahead (A working poem) Imagine getting pulled over at work or coming to your desk and finding a ticket. What would you be cited for? Changing lanes without a turn indicator because you can’t be bothered to  let … Continue reading

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Employee Engagement: Above The Bottom Line

Above The Bottom Line Dwelling above the bottom line our contributions our meaning our routines our relationships our passions our connections our fears our hopes our irritations our time our lives. Business is looking up. It doesn’t all come down … Continue reading

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In Gaudi’s Grip: If I was an Information Architect

What do you see? If I was an information architect I would imitate Gaudi Expressing Spanish flair fused with Barcelona beat Into artistic displays of moving information The information would be beautiful Creating towering displays of data That would continue … Continue reading

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Lacuna

She came to work but wasn’t there. Focus blotched by last night’s Fear Filled Family Fight. Invisible scars deep inside slicing into her sense of self she valiantly but vainly tries to do her job like she knows she can- … Continue reading

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Employee Engagement: Don’t Go Soft

Shift Thinking of Soft Skills Into Fluid Skills and Hard Skills into Fixed Skills Employee engagement is not a soft skill. And it is not a matter of pure will. You don’t go to a training room to learn engagement. … Continue reading

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Employee Engagement Bardzo

Warsaw 2010 Frigid January in Warsaw walking down windy frozen streets in the city leveled to ruin and rubble (1945). Chopin pieces play from push button street benches giving note to his 200th birthday. As the frozen mermaid stands guard … Continue reading

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