Archive for January, 2008

How cool is your work? »

In Winnipeg today, employees are engaged!

Every so often we see the headlines.

Canadian workers are not engaged.
Low levels of engagement.
What happened to commitment in the workplace?
A new generation of slackers.

Here is the temperature at 9:00 AM CST Wednesday 30 January 2008

Condition: Sunny  Temperature: -31.1°C  Wind Chill: -45°C or -49 Fahrenheit

Here is Environment Canada’s Windchill […]

Join the Employee Engagement Network Today »

Monday Morning Percolator #42
Join now to be a founding memeber. Monday 7 a.m. update: The network is less than 2 days old, we already have 7 members (make that 8 just as I was writing this) and many of them are leading experts on employee engagement, work, and leadership. I encourage you to be one […]

If you want to engage employees don’t just read this, do this. »

How do you get people on board with employee engagement? How do you promote change in the age of choice?
Read the following snippet on leadership and change from Margaret Wheatley, one of the foremost leadership experts:
We never succeed in directing or telling people how they must change. We don’t succeed by handing them a plan, […]

ZENgagement: From you to me to us. »

Sometimes I get angry when I hear leaders or managers talk about employee engagement as something for employees or “those people” while neglecting or forgetting that they are employees too!
When we are divided or disconnected how can we expect anything different than disengagement.

To be humble is not to make comparsions. Secure in its reality, the […]

Michael Stallard on Employee Engagement (MMP #41) »

 Monday Morning Percolator #41
It is an honor today to host an interview with Michael Stallard. Michael in conjunction with Carolyn Dewing-Hommes and Jason Pankau wrote, Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity, and Productivity.

I have to admit that the cover and title did not grab my attention but when I […]

Employee Engagement Chronicle #11 »

This is the first test of a revamped employee engagement chronicle. It will make use of social bookmarking and notes to present the latest information in employee engagement.

McDaniel Partners Shows the Way of Employee Engagement »

McDaniel Partners has created a short and engaging 4:19 video on employee engagement.
Take a look and enhance your perspective and understanding on employee engagement.
If you don’t see the video in this post, click here to go directly to the video on You Tube.

Talking about Employee Engagement »

The Cranky Middle Manager 128 Slacker Manager David Zinger
I was interviewed by Wayne on the Cranky Middle Manager Podcast. If you want to listen click on the title above this sentence to go to Wayne’s site and click on the play button. (MP3 12.8MB 26:35 Min)
Here are some notes Wayne put together:
0:00 Welcome to the […]

Do you hear the music at work? »

Employee Engagement Extra:
I saw this video posted at www.toddand.com. It was a commercial but showed an office group engaged in making music. The results of their engagement in this endeavour may not matter for organizational profit but if they can work like this together on the projects that do make a difference, what a difference […]