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 Jun 4, 2008 in Employee Engagement, Zengagement | 0 Comments
Reflection is more than looking in a mirror.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley
Photo credit: Sunset & the Thinker by http://flickr.com/photos/esparta/1584333702/
By David Zinger on Feb 29, 2008 in Zengagement | 0 Comments
Is your work good?
Here is a ZENgagement quotation relating to employee engagement from Howard Gardner edited book, Responsibility at Work:
We crave work that is of excellent technical quality, work that is ethically pursued and socially responsible, and work that is engaging, enjoyable, and feels good. Of course such work is more easily described than achieved. [...]
By David Zinger on Feb 27, 2008 in Employee Engagement, Zengagement | 1 Comment
Employee Engagement is all about work.
Speaking about the daily activities in which humans engage, everything is work — being alive and in a body is already work. Every day there is eating and sh..ting and cleaning up. There is brushing and bathing and flossing. Every day there is thinking and caring and creating. So there [...]
By David Zinger on Feb 17, 2008 in Employee Engagement, Zengagement | 0 Comments
To attain high levels of employee engagement I believe we must learn from artists and how they approach their art. Artists give us exquisite examples of people fully engaged in their work. How about a young musician that creates beautiful music on a thermin without every touching the instrument? I think her work hints at [...]
By David Zinger on Feb 15, 2008 in Zengagement, image | 0 Comments
truffle drawing by Elizabeth Perry.
http://www.elizabethperry.com/woolgathering/archives/002335.html
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 16, 2008 in Zengagement | 2 Comments
ZENgagement
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism,
and what we’re lead to is a life not fully lived.
Cynicism is fear,
and it’s worse than fear -
it’s active disengagement.
~ Ken Burns
Photo Credit: Closed by http://flickr.com/photos/jasoon/10837680/
By David Zinger on Jan 3, 2008 in Employee Engagement, Zengagement | 0 Comments
When you examine the definitions and perceptions of employee engagement it is a lot like how we look at snow. Employee engagement is much more than perception but certainly perception of ourselves, others, and our work play a key role in engagement.
Is employee engagement something playful or a snow job?
A lot of people like snow. [...]
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 | 1 Comment
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 Dec 27, 2007 in Zengagement | 0 Comments
Daniel Gilbert wrote a wonderful book, Stumbling on Happiness.
The line quoted below from page 4 of the book made me think about authentic employee engagement versus programs and policies that look like they foster employee engagement:
But as bald men with cheap hairpieces always seem to forget, acting as though you have something and actually having [...]
By David Zinger on Nov 30, 2007 in David Zinger, Zengagement | 0 Comments
LOVE: A Pathway to employee engagement?
What might it be like to awaken each day into an increasing sense that being loving is even more important than being loved? ~ Stephen Levine
Photo Credit: i heart u by http://flickr.com/photos/littlegoldwoman/860925091/
