Archive for May, 2008

Tune Into the Employee Engagement Network This Weekend »

The 286 member Employee Engagement Network continues to grow and get better by the day.
Here are a few quick recommendations if you would like to tune into the network or our network members:
A brilliant post by Carol Cole-Lewis to start a conversation on: Beyond Passion - What REALLY Motivates?
A conversation lead by Mike King on Sharing […]

Tribal Leadership: An Interview with Dave Logan »

Employee Engagement: Author Interview
 
by David Zinger

This is an interview with Dave Logan, one of the authors of the book, Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization.

Explain what you mean that the more your develop yourself as a leader the less of a leader you are?
Business books on leadership generally take the reader […]

Our Next Generation: Generation E - The Engaged Generation »

Here Comes Clay Shirky: Where is My Mouse?
In my last post, I wrote about Clay Shirky and the importance of promise, tool, and bargain in social media.
Shirky makes me think. After watching the video below it made me think that the next generation could be called: Generation E - The Engaged Generation.
This is a 16 minute […]

Social Media Success: Promise, Tool, and Bargain »

Clay Shirky - Here Comes Everybody

by David Zinger
I implore you. If you plan to use social media or Web 2.0 tools in your organization to foster or enhance employee engagement I implore you to read Clay Shirky’s book, Here Comes Everybody. Read the whole book but ensure you study Chapter 11: Promise, Tool, Bargain.
My social network […]

Who are you reading? »

Employee Engagement articles. There are so many wonderful articles being written every day on employee engagement or related to employee engagement. Here are a couple I recommend:
Is Employee Engagement a Competitive Advantage?
By Michael Lee Stallard
Check out a wonderful column in today’s The New York Times written by one of my favorite journalists, Joe Nocera. […]

Become an Employee Engagement Handy-man! »

Are you HANDY with Employee Engagement?
 
by David Zinger
Charles Handy has done a wonderful job the past two decades writing about management. I appreciated “The E Factor” chapter in his book, 21 Ideas for Managers: practical Wisdom for Managing Your Company and Yourself.

His wife asked him what the E factor was and he responded:
They are all […]

Our 20th Anniversary: Married for 20 Years Today »

Although I write on employee engagement the most important engagement in my life was my engagement to Susan. Today we have been married for 20 years! Now that’s engagement that has sustained itself over 20 years!

The One Question Employee Engagement Survey: Free, Innovative, Fast, and Engaging »

Lets put measurement in the hands of the “carpenters” not the consultants!
 
by David Zinger
Abandon tired old surveys. Many employees are tired of employee engagement surveys. It feels like a workplace intrusion similar to the intrusion of the telephone survey requests you get just as you are sitting down to eat with your family. Employees have […]

Make Friends With Employee Engagement »

Here is a short snippet on friendship from a Gallup article on Are You Neglecting New Employees:
This is one of the most common ways a vital friendship is formed at work — discovering a coworker with common interests or beliefs. The best workgroups we have studied engage in passionate conversations and e-mail discussions about non-work […]