Archive for May, 2008

Employees as Hamsters: A “Wheely” Big Deal? »

By David Zinger on May 14, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 6 Comments

Employees as hamsters. A recent large scale employee engagement survey categorized some workers as hamsters: “those working hard but at the wrong things.” Initially I thought it was a cute image to understand engagement. Later I began to wonder about the appropriateness of using the term hamster to refer to employees.
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Time For Some Sweet Disengagement »

By David Zinger on May 10, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments

Have a sweet break from work.

Drawing by Elizabeth Perry:
http://www.elizabethperry.com/woolgathering/2008/05/watermelon.html

300 Free Employee Engagement Keys and Ideas »

By David Zinger on May 8, 2008 in Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Workplace Engagement | 4 Comments

Read 300 Free Eclectic Employee Engagement Keys. This book compiles employee engagement alphabets by 12 members of the Employee Engagement Network. This is a 39 page free E-book to enrich your employee engagement knowledge and efforts. Click here to download a free PDF copy of the 39 page E-book:          

Leaders as Stewards of Organizational Energy »

By David Zinger on May 8, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments

The raw material of employee engagement is energy. Are you an energy gain or energy drain for your organization?

Leaders are the stewards of organizational energy - in companies, organizations and even in families. They inspire or demoralize others first by how effectively they manage their own energy and next by how well they mobilize, focus, invest and renew [...]

Hawthorne Effect: Enlightened Employee Engagement »

By David Zinger on May 7, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 2 Comments

Do you see the light? The Hawthorne effect is something most first-year university psychology and business students learn about.

The Hawthorne effect describes a temporary change to behavior or performance in response to a change in the environmental conditions, with the response being typically an improvement. Some of the early studies involved changing the lighting conditions [...]

Employee = Hamster: You Make the Call »

By David Zinger on May 5, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 2 Comments

A recent large scale employee engagement survey categorized some workers as hamsters: “those working hard but at the wrong things.” Initially I thought it was a cute image to understand engagement. Later I began to wonder about the appropriateness of using the term hamster to refer to employees.
What do you think? Should we refer to a [...]

More Zingers »

By David Zinger on May 4, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments

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Die Happy Today. David’s personal site focused on happiness and asking the question: If you were to die today, would you die happy?
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Moving Mountains »

By David Zinger on May 2, 2008 in Employee Engagement | 0 Comments

I have been reading John O’Donohue’s Anam Cara. My business partner, Denise Bissonnette, resonates strongly with his writing and so I was motivated to go right to the source.
I enjoyed O’Donohue’s topics and expressions. Here is a very short section that has really stuck with me (it also made me think of all the work Micheal Stallard [...]

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