Good Work and Employee Engagement
Is your work good?
Here is a ZENgagement quotation relating to employee engagement from Howard Gardner edited book, Responsibility at Work:
We crave work that is of excellent technical quality, work that is ethically pursued and socially responsible, and work that is engaging, enjoyable, and feels good. Of course such work is more easily described than achieved. Not all work is executed at a level of excellence, not all work is carried out in an ethical manner, and alas, not all work engages the passions of the worker. Still, to the extent that our work is under our control, we like to do what we can to become good workers ourselves and to encourage good work on the part of those with whom we come into contact and those over whom we exercise some control (p. 5)
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ZENgagement: Work is pervasive
Employee Engagement is all about work.
Speaking about the daily activities in which humans engage, everything is work — being alive and in a body is already work. Every day there is eating and sh..ting and cleaning up. There is brushing and bathing and flossing. Every day there is thinking and caring and creating. So there is no escape from work — it’s everywhere. for Zen students there’s no work time and leisure time; there’s just lifetime, daytime and nighttime. Work is something deep and dignified — it’s what we are born to do and what we feel most fulfilled in doing. ~ Norman Fischer, Zen monk abbot, (From Howard Gardner’s Responsibility at Work).
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Do you have happiness?
Daniel Gilbert wrote a wonderful book, Stumbling on Happiness. It is a very insightful look at happiness but being of shallow mind when I read it, the following quote is what really stuck with me:
But as bald men with cheap hairpieces always seem to forget, acting as though you have something and actually having it are not the same thing, and anyone who looks closely can tell the difference (p. 4).
So when you look closely, what do you see?
Will you die happy today?
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Blogs: A Very Engaging Read
A number of people have asked me which blogs I read. I read and follow a very eclectic list of over 200 bloggers. I don’t read every post by every author but I check them all and delve into the ones that capture my attention.
If you ever thought blogs were just some type of diary kept by teenagers then I encourage you to see it very differently by visiting some of the blogs I have included on my list.
Click here to visit the list of blogs I read or you can always find a link to the list on my menu bar at the top of this site under the heading: Blog List.
Employee Engagement Network Reaches 100 Members (MMP #45)
The Employee Engagement Monday Morning Percolator #45.
Click here to visit the employee engagement network. In just under 4 weeks we reached 100 members. I strongly encourage you to both visit and join this network. It is for people who focus on employee engagement at work, people who want to enhance their own work, or people who are involved in writing, consutlting or doing other work related to engagement.
We have been very active in 4 weeks with over 25,000 views!
Here is just a sample of 12 of the over 100 members you can interact with:
Tim Wright who was the first member to join after I founded the network and who write a marvelous blog on culture to engage.
Terrence Seamon who is a very active and insightful community member from the American Management Association.
Rosa Say who brings a whole lot of Hawaii into her leadership practice.
Michael Lee Stallard who wrote a wonderful book and knows the importance of connection for engagement.
Michelle Malay Cater who writes with style and substance.
Judy McLeish from Toronto who writes another great blog on engagement.
Kathy Lankford who has made some very insightful comments on the network.
Michael Kanazawa who had a cubicle close to Scott Adams the creator of Dilbert and who works on big ideas to big results.
Scott Herrick who writes about careers in Cube Rules.
Guatam Ghosh who offers frequent contributions and adds a perspective from India.
Patricia Ryan Madson who brings the spirit of improvisation to the site.
Andrew Rondeau who jumped right in and got very involved in our conversations.
Obviously this is just a very partial list and it is the combination of EVERYONE who joined to make this a leading resources for anyone interested in employee engagement.
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