We need a break

or work gets broken.

Stop the constant work

with a

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today.

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David Zinger, M.Ed., helps organizations and individuals improve engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 2600 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s website offers you  1100 posts/articles on the engagement reaching  over 1,000,000 page views in the first 4 months of 2010.

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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 card for stealing someone’s brilliant quality improvement idea.

We would not receive a golden handshake

but someone would get the golden boot.

We could kick up a fuss and run like mad inside the field

as announcers commented on our lack of engagement

while our every move was debated

and instantly displayed on replay monitors around the world.

And we would be given a few extra minutes to work before lunch

or at the end of the day to make up for the time we wasted

pointing fingers of blame and lamenting our fate.

Of course nobody would hear us above the roar of the crowd

or the amplified hive-like buzz of the vuvuzelas.

From a distance you would notice that

most of us would just be watching

while only a few people pitched in.

Of course this is not time for poetry

I must head to the closest television to watch Maradona’s

flamboyant coaching of  Argentina

while I shudder to think of him running naked in Buenos Aires.

Ja Yebo

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David Zinger, M.Ed., helps organizations and individuals improve engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 2600 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s website offers you  1100 posts/articles on the engagement reaching  over 1,000,000 page views in the first 4 months of 2010.

Contact David Zinger today to improve engagement where you work.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  –  Phone 204 254 2130  –  Website: www.davidzinger.com

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 others know when you change.

A speeding ticket for going too quickly on a job.

A parking ticket because you spend your time parked in the lunchroom or on one task.

A stop sign violation because you worked right through your son’s baseball game.

A noise violation for eating carrots too loudly at your desk.

Running a red light because nothing comes between you and your work.

Making an illegal turn for leaving a stalled project requiring work for a  shiny new  project full of promise.

Using the diamond or carpool lane with nobody else in your vehicle because you don’t work well with others.

Driving at night without your headlights because you hate to see where you are going.

Hitting another vehicle because you need to bump coworkers who get  in your way.

…

What’s your ticket?

It is time to pull over, slow down, quiet down, and fill your energy meter.

Stop making stupid violations at work.

Of course you’ll never get a real ticket at work

But you may succeed in ticking many people off at work,

And that’s not the ticket.

by David Zinger

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David Zinger, M.Ed., is an employee engagement writer, educator, speaker, coach, and consultant. He offers exceptional contributions on employee engagement for leaders, managers, and employees. David founded and moderates the 2300 member Employee Engagement Network. His website offers 1000 posts/articles relating to employee engagement and strength based leadership. David is involved in the application of Enterprise 2.0 approaches to engagement and the precursor, creating engaging approaches to communication, collaboration, and community within Enterprise 2.0.

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Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  Phone 204 254 2130  Website: www.davidzinger.com

Photo Credit: Flickr Creative Commons Parking Ticket.