Archive for May, 2007

ZENgagement: Engaging Beginner’s Mind »

Are you ready to begin again by looking at employee engagement with fresh eyes?
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
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The Concrete Mix: Employee Engagement MMP#13 »

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 [...]

ZENgagement: Desperation or hearing the music? »

 
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. ~ Heny David Thoreau
In the large pond of workers are you suffering from employee disengagement or hearing your song of engagement? Read my review of the third video of Marcus Buckingham’s Trombone Player Wanted for some guidance [...]

ZENgagement: Vivacious Cycle of Employee Engagement »

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 [...]

7 Canadian quarters for prize not spies »

Fear not!
The 7 Olympic quarters offered as the prize in my last post are not the “spy” quarters that created the U.S. Defence Department warnings. The olympic quarters show peaceful Canadians engaged either in curling or hockey. Okay, hockey isn’t necessarily peaceful but it is not exactly espionage either.
Here is the snippet of the story:
WASHINGTON — An odd-looking [...]

Unexpectedness is worth a mint or $1.75 (Canadian): MMP#12 »

Employee Engagement Monday Morning Percolator #12
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
This is the third in the series of articles outlining the employee engagement application of Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath. Dan Heath in an interview in Tom Peter’s Cool Friends stated that [...]

Go! Learn to lead with your strengths »

Are you looking for more guidance, examples, and illustrations of how to put your strengths to work? I am part of the Joyful Jubilant Learning Group. Visit the website to partake of the rich range of reviews and resources. Make sure you visit the Teaching with Aloha Blog to get more detailed guidance, examples, and [...]

ZENgagement: Accountability? »

Read this insightful post from jack/zen on accountability and engagement:
In many of the organizations I work in, the overperforming criticize the underperforming and ultimately call for what’s considered the ultimate cure: “holding people accountable.” Just saying the words in a pathetically stern tone warms the hearts of vindicators. What’s curious is how the question is never, [...]

Zengagement: Watt’s Up »

No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts

Wanting Employee Engagement by Nora York at TED »

 
Are you ready to TED?
Last month I posted a theme song for my Strength Based Leadership Blog by Eddie Reader on “what you do with what you’ve got.”
This post is another song from the TED blog by Nora York, “What I Want.” Take a 4:42 minute interlude and hear the music and follow Nora’s lyrics that gives [...]