Monthly Archives: November 2007

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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Leadership Video: 2 Sources for Strengths

This video outlines 2 sources to determine your signature strengths. Click here to view the video if the video does not load below.

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Employee Engagment Chronicle #5

David Zinger’s Employee Engagement Chronicle is your primary source for current news, views, reviews, and research on employee engagement. Each entry includes a link to an article or post with a short verbatim tidbit from the article. If you are intrigued, click on … Continue reading

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Leadership Strength#5 – Empathy (MMP #35)

Employee Engagement – Monday Morning Percolator #35 This is part 5 of a 5 part series on leadership strength development through the application of StrengthsFinder 2.0. Click here to read the first article in the series. Here is the schedule outlining … Continue reading

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ZENgagement: What is new is old (Self-Reliance)

Is employee engagement really a new topic?  Here is a wonderful snippet of poetry from Ralph Waldo Emerson written in 1841, 166 years ago, on self-reliance: What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. … Continue reading

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The 10 Simple Laws of Employee Engagement

Can you make employee engagement simple? John Maeda. a professor in MIT’s Meida Lab, is the master of simplicity. He wrote a compelling book, The Laws of Simplicity. In this article I apply Maeda’s 10 laws and 3 keys of simplicity … Continue reading

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ZENgagement: Are you sliding

What’s most important? Elizabeth Hamilton has written an intriguing short book, Untrain Your Parrot. I have read the question she asked in Chapter 1 before about what’s most important. Yet, I appreciated her phrasing and broader perspective: If you died … Continue reading

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Leadership Strength#4 – Ideation (MMP #34)

Employee Engagement Monday Morning Percolator #34 This is part 4 of a 5 part series on leadership strength development through the application of StrengthsFinder 2.0. Click here to read the first article in the series. Here is the schedule outlining my … Continue reading

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ZENgagement is always about now

NOW It’s a good day when we don’t need to be doing anything else than what we’re doing, when we don’t need to be anywhere else than where we are. On this day, our life is fine as it is … Continue reading

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Strength Based Leadership Video: Benefits

Here is the first of what will be a series of videos on Leadership Zingers. These videos will be 1 to 3 minutes long and offer you quick tips or perspectives on leadership. The primary focus will be on the topics of … Continue reading

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Employee Engagement Chronicle (special)

Do you help employees keep the thrill alive? Peter Vajda has written a detailed and insightful post on employee engagement at Slow Leadership. The key sections include the causes of disengagement, the solutions, and how to “keep the thrill alive.” … Continue reading

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Employee Engagement Chronicle #4

David Zinger’s Employee Engagement Chronicle is your primary source for current news, views, reviews, and research on employee engagement. Each entry includes a link to an article or post with a short verbatim tidbit from the article. If you are intrigued, click on … Continue reading

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