Employee Engagement Zingers

How to really accentuate the positive in Employee Engagement.

by David Zinger
Part 1 of a 2 Part Interview
Jerry Pounds is a management consultant with over 30 years of experience in applying positive reinforcement, reward, and recognition strategies to business and industry.  He has written and spoken on the application and problematic nature of corporate motivational and rewards [...]

We have only moments to work…

by David Zinger
Troubling surveys. I am troubled by the plethora of employee engagement surveys and assessments. There are endless statistics generated to look at the various percentages of employees who range from full engagement to disengagement.
Change in 10 seconds. I believe that many of us have our relationship with work change in [...]

The Employee Engagement Network has grown to over 500 Members. We achieved this in under 8 months. If you have not already joined us I encourage you to check us out and join. Here is an outline  of the special interest groups that have already been formed:

Manager Tools for Employee Engagement (97 [...]

400!
400 Posts. This is the 400th. post of Employee Engagement Zingers. This number has been achieved one post at a time and I hope that you have found the writing helpful for employee engagement, strength based leadership, and general life engagement.
Leader/Manager Focus. I plan to make some changes later this fall. You will find more [...]

Here are the 6 top conversations (forums) at The Employee Engagement Network.
Join us and jump into the conversation.
Forum #6: Employee Engagement Advice in One Sentence 42 Replies
In one sentence only, write the best employee engagement advice you would give to an organization.
Started by David Zinger in Weekly Forum. Last reply by Khalid Ibrahim Sep [...]

Working with both relationships and results in high stress conditions

by David Zinger
Getting Up and Getting Back. Leadership and engagement are more than getting to the top or the mountain or achieving quarterly results. We need to come down from our heights and establish connections with others.
Brotherhood of the rope. This site’s original focus was on strength [...]

Michael Stallard and I had a wonderful conversation on the power of connection in employee engagement. The 30 minute webinar includes a few slides and lots of ideas.  Listen or listen and watch the webinar by clicking on the screen image below, or click here.
You’ll need to register with BrightTALK but this will also give [...]

Remember to pause and take care of your health. I love to insert pictures from Elizabeth Perry’s daily drawing at woolgathering.
I appreciate her daily discipline and the simple elegance of the things she draws. I encourage you to take a few moments before clicking away to appreciate the image. Use it as a micro-moment disengagement [...]

Career development is a very important part of effective employee engagement. We must manage our own career to enhance and enrich our level of engagement at work. If we are disengaged the following career blogs can help us determine our next actions or chart a new course.
Here are the first 14 of the 125 outstanding blogs displayed on [...]

Welcome back Kotter: A Sense of Urgency

by David Zinger
John Kotter has done a lot of work to help us manage and navigate through organizational change. Kotter is back with A Sense of Urgency.
Kotter maintains the number one problem organizations face when trying to execute change is creating a sense of urgency. We need to create [...]