ZENgagement: Always Maintain a Joyful Mind
Are you paying joyful attention on a daily basis to full employee engagement:
Pema Chodron has the following commentary in the book Always Maintain a Joyful Mind on awakening compassion and fearlessness:
In the morning when you wake up, you reflect on the day ahead and aspire to use it to keep a wide-open heart and mind. At the end of the day, before going to sleep, you think over what you have done. If you fulfilled your aspiration, even once, rejoice in that. If you went against your aspiration, rejoice that you are able to see what you did and are no longer living in ignorance. This way you will be inspired to go forward with increasing clarity, confidence, and compassion in the days that follow.
Can you dissolve the barriers between organizations, leadership, and employees to create employee engagement for all by opening your heart?
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Teaching for Engagement
Did your teachers fully engage you in learning? Did you sit in a brain numbing lecture, absorbing little, and waiting for the class to be over?
The Globe and Mail wrote an article on Carl Wieman. Dr Wieman, an Nobel laureate, is on a mission to change the way science is taught. He wants to engage the learner. He claims that universities are doing a terrible job of teaching students and it is time to shift to student engagement in learning.
He wants professors to stop lecturing and begin to engage students through questions and group discussions and teach them to think like scientists, rather than just recite facts.
In today’s workplace are you engaging employees in their work? What Dr. Wieman is attempting to do for the science classroom, I encourage you to do for your workplace.
Don’t just stand at the front of the room teaching or preaching, foster engagement with direct and meaningful interactions with the people you work with.
And that’s the end of my lecture!
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5 Weeks of Workplace Strength Training (MMP #31)
Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #31
I invited you to join me in a 5 week strength building and training regime.
You won’t end up with more muscle but you will end up stronger and more engaged in your work.
Each week we will focus on one of our strengths from the StrengthsFinder 2.0 inventory. We will work at developing a greater understanding of the strength, determine applications of the strength for the following week, and review how we performed on the last strength before moving on to the next strength on the list. Read more
ZENgagement: Lazy Disengagement
When we are disengaged it often drains our energy. We are not so much conserving energy or renewing energy as much as we are letting the energy drain from us with very little to show for our efforts.
Here is a short snippet story from Sakyong Mipham’s Turning The Mind Into An Ally:
I have a friend who’s particularly susceptible to attacks of basic laziness. For example, one day when we were relaxing together, he decided to take a rest on the couch. He poured himself a drink, placed it on the coffee table, and then lay down on the sofa. After a few minutes of lying there, he realized he’d placed his glass on the far side of the table, out of reach. Instead of sitting up and picking up his glass, he found a clothes hanger that was wedged between the cushions and hooked the leg of the coffee table with it to drag the table closer. Predictably, the drink fell off the table. We often expend much more energy being lazy than it would take to deal with our life straightforwardly.
What is your straightforward path to employee engagement?
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Free 18 page PDF Review of Trombone Player Wanted
Trombone Player Wanted is a strong 6 DVD series on putting our strengths to work by Marcus Buckingham. If you would like to learn more about this series I encourage you to read the review available below.
A free 18 page detailed PDF E-review of this series was on this site but it became unavailable when the site was revised. I have put the resource back on the site and apologize to anyone who had difficulty accessing the resource.
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