About David Zinger
David Zinger from Winnipeg Canada is an expert on engagement. He founded the 4500 member Employee Engagement Network. His work is designed to increase engagement for your organization.
He is a management consultant with over 25 years of experience. His education services are enhanced by his 20 year background as a University educator for the University of Manitoba and over 15 years managing an employee assistance program for Seagram Ltd.
David's services mix current research with practical approaches to build authentic relationships and achieve powerful results. To learn more about David, click on "About David" on the link bar near the top of this site.
Contact David Zinger at:
Phone (204) 254-2130.
Email dzinger@shaw.ca
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Category Archives: Zengagement
Zengagement: Personal Persuasiveness
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 … Continue reading
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Zengagement: Reflection
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/
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Good Work and Employee Engagement
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 … Continue reading
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ZENgagement: Work is pervasive
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 … Continue reading
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Employee Engagement Extra: The Art of Engagement
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 … Continue reading
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Zengagement: Have A Sweet Weekend
truffle drawing by Elizabeth Perry. http://www.elizabethperry.com/woolgathering/archives/002335.html
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ZENgagement: From you to me to us.
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 … Continue reading
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Don’t Go There!
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 … Continue reading
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Zengagement: Is Employee Engagement a Snow Job?
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 … Continue reading
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Top 10 Employee Engagement Articles of 2007
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 … Continue reading
ZENgagement: Hair it is
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 … Continue reading
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ZENgagement: To love or be loved
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/
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