Employee Engagement with David Zinger
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Has employee engagement taken flight where you work?
This is a very beautiful and powerful video – watching Blue Cranes learn to fly. The video was created by Christian Letruria. It was captivating to watch the struggle to take off, the grace when airborne, and the challenge of the first landing.
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Learn To Fly from Christian Letruria on Vimeo.
Alain de Botton is an exceptional author. His recent book is The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work.
Alain is a fine writer and speaker. In this talk he weaves a quick pace, wit, and humor to look at our outlook on success and failure. I encourage you to watch his TED Talk on A kinder, gentler philosophy of success.
On this video he encourage us to:
Are you stuck on the management grid?
We manage to manage just about everything.
We manage people and enroll in stress management.
We practice project management then learn anger management.
We manage impressions and manage by walking around.
We manage expectations and learn disaster management.
We manage by objectives and by exceptions.
We learn performance management and take something for pain management.
We even manage to get by.
I hunger to see the horse run free.
Running off the grid
Unmanageable, unfettered, and unafraid
Let go loosen up liberate
Galloping to a place unseen
Yet to arrive and know it in a heartbeat.
David Zinger is a leading expert on employee engagement. He is committed to creating authentic and sustained employee engagement for the benefit of all. Contact David at (204) 254-2130 or Email dzinger@shaw.ca.
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Employee engagement from the employee’s perspective.
Here are 22 reasons why we as employees benefit from our own high caliber engagement:
What are additional benefits you see for employees to engage fully in their work?
David Zinger, M.Ed., is a leading expert on employee engagement. He is committed to creating authentic and sustained employee engagement for the benefit of all. Contact David at (204) 254-2130 or Email dzinger@shaw.ca.
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Engage 5 is a weekly feature of Employee Engagement Zingers. Engage-5 asks leading thinkers, writers, consultants, practitioners, and others involved in employee engagement to complete 5 sentences.
Read Tim Houlihan’s 5 sentences on engagement:
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Do you engage with what is most important?
There is one thing that we all must do.
If we do everything else
but that one thing,
we will be lost.
And if we do nothing else
but that one thing,
we will have lived a glorious life.”
~ Rumi (1207-73) Persian poet and philosopher
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Two Questions:
John Junson of Cartoonitude makes his regular weekly contribution.
What blogs are you reading?
405 and counting. Below you will find the current list of great blogs I follow. I have been blogging for almost 5 years and I do my best to make my own contributions to blogosphere. I don’t read every post by every blogger but I do my best to stay current with the wonderful writings of this eclectic mix of exceptional thinkers and writers.
Here are 23 things this group of bloggers offer me:
Here are my friends: Here is a list of blogs that I currently follow. They are an excellent and eclectic mix of blogs. Be careful if you start clicking on the links below, you might never take your eyes off of the screen for a few days if you start reading these authors.
Thank you to everyone on this list – I would not be me without you:
David Zinger is a leading expert on employee engagement. He is committed to creating authentic and sustained employee engagement for the benefit of all. Contact David at (204) 254-2130 or Email dzinger@shaw.ca.
Employee Engagement: Lead, Engage and Blend In.
Waltzing into leadership. I encourage you to watch this popular “dancing” video from the Sasquatch Music Festival. It begins with one guy “dancing”…another guy waltzing in…joined by a third and then the tipping point. Stay with it to watch the crowd take over.
Leaders disappear into the dance. The analogy to employee engagement is that leadership and managers can play a big role in fostering and enhancing employee engagement but the best leaders disappear into the dance of engagement once it has fully evolved.
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. ~ T. S. Eliot
Leadership overexposure. I see far too many “leaders” with such a strong focus on themselves. Their image is splashed across book covers and corporate publications. It was inspirational to see the leader disappear. It reminds me of Lao Tzu’s statement: Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, “We did this ourselves.
Stand out and blend in:
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I learned about this video from Mike Troiano who writes the blog Scalable Intimacy – Branding in the Age of Social Media.
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David Zinger is a leading expert on employee engagement. He is committed to creating authentic and sustained employee engagement for the benefit of all. Contact David at (204) 254-2130 or Email dzinger@shaw.ca.
Samsara, Nirvana, Ground Hog, and Godot
Act 1: Project Samsara 1.0
(Curtain rises)
Project team sitting around the conference kickoff table
Sponsor is both visible and vocal
Great benefits forecast upon project completion
Budget set, team engaged, and time lines drawn on Gantt charts.
(Hearty round of applause)
Act 2: Project Samsara 1.1, 1.2, 1.3…
(Darkened stage – dim light on project manager)
Beta moment.
Project manager in desperate need of beta blockers
Calling for the sponsor but no reply
Project is over —
Overruns
Over budget
Over time
Over and out
(Intermission: Audience craves catharsis and caramel popcorn)
Act 3: Project Nirvana 1.0
(Audience arrives late for Act 3 because of popcorn shortages)
Project Samsara has failed and fallen out of focus
Like a cloud blown away by the winds of organizational change
No wake is necessary…
Same project team is sitting around the same conference table
The sponsor has reappeared – visible and vocal
Announces the launch of Project Nirvana.
Great benefits forecast upon project completion
Budget set, team engaged, and time lines drawn on new Gantt chart.
(Spotlight shifts stage left)
Groundhog peaks out of hole, sees shadow and dives underground.
(Curtain falls – audience leaves wondering if they somehow missed Godot)
Poem by David Zinger - David Zinger is a leading expert on employee engagement. He is committed to creating authentic and sustained employee engagement for the benefit of all. Contact David at (204) 254-2130 or Email dzinger@shaw.ca.
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Visit David Zinger on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/davidzinger
My favorite use of Twitter is to offer people pithy updates with links to great reads.
Good circuit. Twitter is a great circuit to stay in touch with employee engagement and to make mini employee engagement contributions. Twitter is where I first heard about the UK MacLeod Employee Engagement report.
Twitter applications.
Here is a sample of my most recent twitter updates.
David Zinger is a leading expert on employee engagement. He is committed to creating authentic and sustained employee engagement for the benefit of all. Contact David at (204) 254-2130 or Email dzinger@shaw.ca.
David Zinger from Winnipeg Canada is an expert on engagement. He founded the 4500 member Employee Engagement Network. His work is designed to increase engagement for your organization.
He is a management consultant with over 25 years of experience. His education services are enhanced by his 20 year background as a University educator for the University of Manitoba and over 15 years managing an employee assistance program for Seagram Ltd.
David's services mix current research with practical approaches to build authentic relationships and achieve powerful results. To learn more about David, click on "About David" on the link bar near the top of this site.
Contact David Zinger at:
Phone (204) 254-2130.
Email dzinger@shaw.ca
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