Archives for May 2009

Employee Engagement and Personal Branding

May 5, 2009 by David Zinger 5 Comments

Personal branding is an innovative and robust contributor to employee engagement. I will be more engaged when I know and operate from my strengths. I will be more engaged when I know that I add and create value. I will be more engaged when I am visible.

I wrote about my a personal brand equation I created in a previous post.

The equation stated:

Personal Branding = (Strengths + Value + Visibility) x Engagement.

As a supplement to my previous work, I encourage you to watch the following video and view the slides of David Armano’s contribution to personal branding.

Watch David Armano, Critical Mass, Personal Branding in Tech & Gaming | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

In addition here are the slides you see in the presentation available on slideshare:

Brand U.0 David Armano

View more presentations from John Patterson.

Engage-5 with Phil Gerbyshak

May 4, 2009 by David Zinger 1 Comment

Engage 5 is a weekly feature of Employee Engagement Zingers. Engage-5 asks leading thinkers, writers, consultants, and others involved in employee engagement to complete 5 sentences.

Read Phil Gerbyshak’s 5 sentences on engagement:

I define employee engagement as employees doing what they need to do and more without being asked, often in the best interests of the team and the company.
Our biggest challenge in employee engagement is it’s different for everyone, and thus it takes time to understand what it means to each associate.
A powerful way to create greater employee engagement is to treat each employee as the unique person they are and reward and recognize them how THEY want to be rewarded and recognized.
I am personally most engaged at work when I work in my strengths zone of presentations, coaching, and helping each person be their absolute best.
To learn more about employee engagement, I encourage people to get to know each person on their team as much as they can (and to ask each associate what engages THEM).

To learn more from, or about, Phil Gerbyshak click here.