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By David Zinger on Jul 27, 2007 in Disengagement, Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Retire now: Weave retirement into your work even if you are in your 20s
In about 10 years the number of young people getting into the workplace will no longer be enough to replace retirees.
Tim Cork, a career coach, stated in The Globe and Mail, “if you are fifty-something and you can expect to live into […]
By David Zinger on Jul 24, 2007 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber wrote a wonderful short book entitled: The Art of Time.
Through routine, a guilty conscience, or simply a lack of reflection, we unconsciously deprive ourselves of a large part of our time…
In fact we usually do:
What we enjoy doing before what we don’t enjoy doing,
What goes quickly before what goes slowly,
What is easy before […]
By David Zinger on Jul 22, 2007 in Monday Morning Percolator, Personal Engagement, Management, Leadership, Workplace Engagement, Engagement, Employee Engagement | 0 Comments
Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #23
Do you hear what I hear?
Who are you listening to in relationship to employee engagement? You can listen to the work of management consultants or university professors but I encourage you to go to the source. Listen to the people in your family and workplace.
Here are 4 snippets I heard […]
By David Zinger on Jul 21, 2007 in Zengagement, Employee Engagement | 3 Comments
Seize engagement now…
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. ~ John Anster
By David Zinger on Jul 18, 2007 in Strengths | 0 Comments
Mike Morrison wrote The Other Side of the Card - A book about where your authentic leadership story begins. Click here to read a brief review of the book I wrote on my employee engagement blog.
He also writes an excellent informative and interesting newsletter. I just received it this week and asked Mike if I […]
By David Zinger on Jul 17, 2007 in Strengths | 1 Comment
How are your strengths perceived?
How do you perceive other people’s strengths?
Watch the short video below and as you watch the video also watch your attitude about the character in the video. How do you see him? Does judgement cloud your vision? Are you blown away by him at the end?
The video may take a short […]
By David Zinger on Jul 17, 2007 in David Zinger | 0 Comments
July has been a terrific month to further your strength based leadership through free educational seminars by some of the top leadership thinkers.
Marshall Goldsmith and Patricia Wheeler are hosting a one hour free teleforum with Peter Cairo on leadership. The forum is based on Cairo’s book: Head Heart and Guts: How the World’s Best Companies […]
By David Zinger on Jul 17, 2007 in Zengagement, Employee Engagement | 3 Comments
Be careful of clinging too tightly to fixed concepts of employee engagement.
Work, people, and relationships change.
Here is a short zen story on impermanence:
A student went to his meditation teacher and said, “My meditation is horrible! I feel so distracted, my legs ache and I’m constantly falling asleep. It’s horrible!”
“It will pass,” the teacher said. […]
By David Zinger on Jul 16, 2007 in Management, Personal Engagement, Leadership, Engagement, Canada, Employee Engagement | 2 Comments
Employees’ direct relationships with their bosses are one of the most important factors in fostering employee engagement. But what if the boss is bad, and that boss is you?
Joseph Libertia has written a fine short post on how to overcome Bad Boss syndrome with emotional intelligence. He cites the common statement that people don’t leave […]
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