Archive for October, 2007

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

ZENgagement & Conversational Leadership »

Leadership is a way of life and a conversation.
 
The great question about leadership, about taking real steps on the pilgrim’s path, is the great question of any individual life: how to make everything more personal. How to understand life or leadership not as an abstract path involving devious strategies but more like an inhabitation, a […]

Employees want to be Engaged »

According to the latest research from the Towers Perrin Global work force study of 90,000 workers, including 5,000 Canadian workers, employees want to be engaged.

84% said they enjoy challenging work
83% look for new opportunities to develop skills
58% tend to invest time and energy beyond what is required

The majority of employees felt they needed more organizational support […]

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Be Grateful for Employee Engagement (MMP#30) »

Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #30

Robert Emmons wrote a lovely short book on thanks! or how the new science of gratitude can make you happier. I am thankful for the book and thought about it in relationship to employee engagement.