Archive for February, 2008

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Employee Engagement Extra: Making Projects Unique »

Welcome to the Employee Engagement Extra.
I encourage you to watch Moshe Safdie talk about what makes a building unique. I encourage you to think through Mr. Safdie’s experience with buildings for the employee engagement you may be working at building in your organization. View the 17 minute video by clicking on the screen below or […]

ZENgagement: The Holographic Organization »

Chris Bailey has written an excellent post contrasting a monolithic versus holographic image for organizations.

Rather than viewing an organization as a bland, uniform, static structure, consider the organization as a hologram. Within a holographic image, each section contains a complete image of the original object. So the real beauty of the holographic perspective is acknowledging that the […]

Employee Engagement: A Youth Movement »

Carmine Gallo writing in business week outlined five ways to successfully engage with twenty-somethings. I encourage you to read the article outlining 5 keys to engage this age of worker:

Don’t manage, mentor
Don’t assign, explain
Don’t dictate, solicit
Don’t ignore, respond
Don’t conceal, communicate

Carmine believes effective communication is to respond to Gen Y’s craving for empowerment.

My favorite tip was […]

Do you need a hand? »

Here is a fine visual break from more words on employee engagement:

Daily drawings and paintings in a small sketchbook celebrate and record everyday life in this blog by Elizabeth Perry. In the future there will be an interview with Elizabeth on how she engages with her art and possible implication or applications to work engagement.

Employee Engagement: Go Ahead, Make Their Day (MMP#44) »

Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator # 44
An interview with Cindy Ventrice to get your work week percolating with engagement.
It is my pleasure to interview Cindy Ventrice, author of Make Their Day: Employee Recognition That Works. Cindy is from Santa Cruz California and has worked with a wide variety of organizations including Cisco, MIT, WorkSafeBC, […]