27 Employee Engagement Zingers: Eclectic Resources (3)

Here are some resources that encompass gratitude, visuals, success, focus, mistakes, happiness, strengths, clients, courtesies, strategies, loafing, accountability, and compassion:

1. 31 Flavors of Gratitude by Christine Kane. http://bit.ly/86ZhiR

2. Wonderful visuals and moments at Jon Rawlinson’s blog http://bit.ly/77hJn1

3. The Atlantic’s Science of Success. Thanks Micheal Stallard. http://bit.ly/8p0BvV

4. Are your passions discovered or constructed. Scott H. Young http://bit.ly/74elO3

5. WHITE ON. Get your white paper right. http://bit.ly/8QqbPy

6. STAY FOCUSED, WORK ON YOUR CRAFT. Thanks Chris Bailey. http://bit.ly/8KkkDE

7. Make no mistake by using ROWE. http://bit.ly/8HFgOR http://bit.ly/6g2RjP

8. Happier? Check out this i-phone app for hAPPiness. http://bit.ly/8E97D4

9. Be a strong coach. Strengths now or problems later. You make the call. http://bit.ly/6YkgDR

10. Employee Engagement. Leadership is a Sacred Trust. Tom Peter 3 minute mild video rant. http://bit.ly/92EsiO

11. 20 questions to assess your clients. Do they ACHE and pain you? http://bit.ly/7NuJGE

12. 24 questions to see what is behind you. http://bit.ly/7b75lH

13. Hans on Ted. Watch and learn. http://bit.ly/6L8Pf2

14. The 8 Courtesies with a free 152 slide PowerPoint from good old Tom Peters. http://bit.ly/6h6M8A

15. Give thanks and get gratitude: Thanks is a DOING. Gratitude is a BEING. Thanks to Jodee Bock. http://bit.ly/7DtVIP

16. Strategy and Business books to read by leading readers and authors. http://bit.ly/4KHTXB

17. How to get it “white” with Roesler. http://bit.ly/8o3ma1

18. Brand O? Learn to brand yourself Oprah style by Baldoni. What you do and don’t do. http://bit.ly/5ygUNl

19. “Inny or Outty?” Gill Corkindale on Are You an In or an Out Leader? http://bit.ly/6OdXWq

20. Employee Engagement, Accountability, and Policing Action http://bit.ly/6hOAwr

21. Employee engagement by going horizontal in our vertical organizations. http://bit.ly/6PsGY6

22. Abbott and Costello on employee disengagement – loafing? Funny 3 Minutes. http://bit.ly/632srs

23. View or download the Zinger Employee Engagement Model. http://bit.ly/8fHMuN

24. Write One Sentence of Employee Engagement Advice for Managers or Supervisors. http://bit.ly/85I5uu

25. Find the Missing Pieces for our workplaces and organizations. http://bit.ly/cfj7x

26. Join the 1730 members of the free, freeing, informative, and interactive Employee Engagement Network. http://bit.ly/rKCXH

27. View the 2 minute Charter of Compassion on video. Do you see a role for this in employee engagement? http://bit.ly/7MGP18

Employee Engagement: Engaging Digital Humans

I encourage you to watch the TED video by Pranav Mistry on the fusion on the digital world and human world. It may start a little slow but keep watching and begin to appreciate the new ways that Pranav is encouraging us to engage in both our digital and human worlds.

The future is here:

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Today at Work Episode 36 (Cartoons for the Workplace)

Leadership is a Sacred Trust. Tom Peters Video

How do you see employee engagement leadership?

Do you see leadership for employee engagement as a sacred trust?

Watch this pithy 3 minute mild rant from Tom Peters about leadership as a sacred trust.

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Employee Engagement, Accountability, and Policing Action

Heady stuff

Holding others accountable. If we value employee engagement how do we respond when someone is not engaged? Do we hold others  accountable for their engagement and behavior?

Accountability: Check In or Checking Up. I believe powerful accountability is when we check in with people rather than check up on people. This means we level with them. We help them. We are there to protect their best interests. We are not there to punish them or to find them guilty

Do we stop someone who is disengaged and help them.

I love this video I first spotted on Alexander Kjerulf wonderful Chief Happiness Officer blog.

A new type of policing. I believe we need the spirit of this policing action in our organizations.

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Employee Engagement: Are You a Loafer?

3 funny minutes on employee engagement

Are you a loafer? So you thought employee engagement and employee disengagement were new? Perhaps the terms are new but not the experience.

Let’s get some clarity. I love this fantastic 3 minute video full or word play and laughs by Abbott and Costello on  being a loafer. Some of the lines include:

What are you doing there?

Loafing.

…

That’s what they pay me for.

For what?

To loaf.

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Employee Engagement: Don’t be Puzzled – Find the Missing Pieces

A Review of Missing Pieces by Jean-Pierre Brun and Cary Cooper

Engagement for all. Employee engagement is becoming increasingly important in organizations and the workplace. Employee engagement, as I have stated numerous times, must be for the benefit of all. Employees must benefit and organizations and their customers must also benefit.

Thank you Peter Hart. Before I begin  the review I want to thank my friend Peter Hart of Rideau Recognition for recommending this exceptional book. You can read Peter’s blog by clicking here.

Informative Resource. I appreciated the work of Brun and Cooper on the 7 ways to improve employee well-being and organizational effectiveness. It is not one at the expense of the other but it is about putting all the pieces together to wed well-being with organizational effectiveness. The book is brief, well-written, well-researched, and loaded with practical assessments and simple actions

Brun and Cooper’s 7 Pieces:

1. Recognize your employees
2. Support your employees
3. Develop a culture of respect
4. Reconcile work with personal life
5. Control the workload
6. Encourage and support autonomy and participation in decision making
7. Clarify everyone’s roles

Employee engagement for all. We need to achieve employee well-being and give it more than lip service. On page 11 Burn and Cooper state:

First a healthy business has rules, guidelines, procedures, resources and practices that promote the employee’s physical and mental health. In turn, healthy employees will help the business meet its goals for production or service, for efficiency and for corporate well-being

Time for Recognition. Each of the 7 pieces is a specific chapter. To illustrate their perspective here is a closer look at chapter 2. Are you making time for employees and just being around and “just as recognition is a powerful way to mobilize people and build health, the opposite may be produced by lack of recognition (p. 29).”

Make time and take time for this missing piece. The leading challenge is to increase the time that managers  have to be with employees. Brun and Cooper encourage us to recognize the person’s value, the quality of work, investment in work, and results. I loved their line, “People work each day. Therefore, you should as much as possible recognize their achievements on a daily basis” (p. 25).  Read their conclusion to the chapter on recognizing your employees:

In summary, recognition is key to motivation, to personal development, to positive relationships among people and to physical and mental health to work. It positively affects productivity and service quality, and it plays a significant role in the success and permanence of organizations. It gives meaning to a person’s work and value to what he or she does. Employee recognition is, in a way, an indispensable companion for an individual and an organization.

Book Value: I encourage you to read this short yet informative and well-written and well-researched book. Each of the 7 pieces includes a questionnaire to diagnose your situation and a list of 10 practical actions you can carry out immediately.

The final chapter offers the reader guidance on how to move from words to actions based on leveraging 6 levers of success and overcoming 5 obstacles.  I appreciated the 2,000 working hours pinciple of asking yourself how many hours of work will be improved by an action you take.

Get all the puzzle pieces. Don’t leave out any pieces that will leave you puzzled about weaving together employee well-being and organizational effectiveness, read Missing Pieces by Jean-Pierre Brun and Cary Cooper.

28 Employee Engagement Zingers: Eclectic Resources (3)

Great eclectic mix of resources from getting unstuck and twenty-ten to approachability and 3 degrees of influence.

Photo Credit: Rainbow remake on Flickr

Start linking and reading here:

1. Stop being stuck. Start here. Accepting offers and doing something with them. http://bit.ly/7M9VIc

2. The ZINGER model of employee engagement. Comprehensive for self, others, and results. http://bit.ly/OB7v7

3. Employee engagement and risk taking for career advancement. http://bit.ly/8ElvEi

4. Employee Engagement vs. Employee Satisfaction – Tactics vs. Strategies. http://bit.ly/6opZ5d

5. Engage employees – Engage customers. http://bit.ly/7Z7K0z

6. Tim Wright, a major figure in employee engagement, on creativity and engagement. http://bit.ly/6DiOmQ

7. TEA…M. New Today At Work cartoon by @junson. http://bit.ly/cfj7x

8. It has started. Twenty Ten for the next decade. http://bit.ly/832Sde

9. JD – learn the 3 mindsets that support you. http://bit.ly/6Yybz1

10. Engaged employees are 87 per cent less likely to leave the organisation than the disengaged. http://bit.ly/83PWyF

11. The Bright Side of the Underutilized (Overcapable) Employee by Michelle Malay Carter http://bit.ly/5rt3Q9 a

12. 6 ways managers can enhance their approachability by Abhishek http://bit.ly/911IuO

13. Guidance by Bob Sutton on getting it right or getting it done. Thanks http://bit.ly/7pimnb

14. Curt Rosengren encourages us to notice your crossroads of possibility. http://bit.ly/2QKJAY

15. Don’t not work hard. But do keep a check on whether you are working for what you really desire. http://bit.ly/2KebEh

16. Great graphs on count the buzzword from Flowing Data. http://bit.ly/18bpFb

17. Lisa Haneberg. Get SIMPLE. http://bit.ly/24BTiD

18. Skip Reardon warns of more change and 7 ways to be prepared for the changes. http://bit.ly/2V885C

19. Employee Engagement Lessons from Fast Company’s “30 Second MBA” Part 2 http://bit.ly/4FaE8D

20. Lean processes and employee engagement. http://bit.ly/261PR7

21. Employee engagement. 80% of employees loyal to company not sure company is loyal to them. http://bit.ly/2F737V

22. Employee engagement, “unlocking potential in employees not at the expense of well-being.” http://bit.ly/41zo9P

23. Incentives Vs. Recognition: How Do You Get Your Workers Engaged Again? Eric Mosley in Forbes http://bit.ly/13Ut6z

24. Is Writing to Learn a Tool, Process or Choice? http://bit.ly/2qxAFd

25. Timothy So writes about 3 degrees of influence in Positive Psychology. http://bit.ly/3Rlo9F

26. Kudos to Watson Wyatt. Insightful report and great visual presentation on communication ROI. http://bit.ly/3Jivzn

27. Watch this 2 minute video from National Geographic on a photographer and a leopard seal. http://bit.ly/1LPgtD

28. Get the Picture. Really. Stop the bullets. Get the Picture. Informative visual slideshare. http://bit.ly/3ez4L3

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14 Employee Engagement Zingers: Eclectic Resources (2)

Zinger’s eclectic employee engagement resources:

This selection includes contributions ranging from learning 2.0 and loyalty matters to nine question sif you care enough to forty great resources  for a community management strategy.

1. Top 10 Trends in Learning 2.0. Very informative slideshare by Rodd Lucier. http://bit.ly/1Q5LAu

2. Peter W. Hart on loyalty matters. http://bit.ly/3svLTM

3. Research finds leadership skills inadequate to meet current and future demand ~ George Ambler http://bit.ly/2tfDmB

4. Scott Young on What if You Have More Than One Passion? http://bit.ly/wvgXa

5. Beyond shallowness: Dave Shearon on Positive Psychology Includes Negative Emotions. http://bit.ly/aJ9NJ

6. Why Shy? Rosa Say on don’t be shy about your success. http://bit.ly/uHflY

7. Balance Connection and Conviction to Reduce Anxiety and Lead Effectively. http://bit.ly/4F0cbC

8. Nine Questions To See If You Are Caring ENOUGH. http://bit.ly/4t3w2z

9. Give Swirl a whirl. Have you tried Googe Image Swirl? http://bit.ly/4eAyYw

10. Flowing Data. Data data everyday. We are headed here. http://bit.ly/1cR4ff

11. Forty Great Resources for Developing a Community Management Strategy http://bit.ly/1uOrPd

12. Pink on the wrong right. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. http://bit.ly/4iJCFB

13. ROWE to work. ROWE is not changing the work; ROWE is innovating how the work gets done. http://bit.ly/HOoO

14. Organizational change. A poem on dying, butterflies, conversation, and community. http://bit.ly/4oBzlY

Employee Engagement Zingers: Eclectic Resource Mix #1

Here are some fine links on employee engagement ranging from the weakness of one tactic for employee engagement to a decreased focus by managers on inspiration, direction, motivation, and accountability:

1. Employee engagement beyond the single tactic. Well done Mitch McCrimmon. http://bit.ly/4499wZ
2. Employee engagement? 11 Pathways to employee disengagement. http://bit.ly/3T1q9e
3. Unique but not alone. Lisa Haneberg posts excellent story on mentorship. http://bit.ly/2tRbPI
4. GRAPH-EECHH. Naked ladies turn into Christmas Trees. http://bit.ly/370nAL
5. Johnnie Moore – people who are preoccupied with success ask the wrong question http://bit.ly/fKkju
6. SCARY. John Baldoni managers little emphasis on inspiration, direction, motivation, accountability http://bit.ly/3cgGPE
7. Once the game is over the king and pawn go back into the same box. @lance02 http://bit.ly/2IhapE
8. Canadian space. Check this diagram on land mass and population http://bit.ly/3rmANp
9. Employee engagement. Homepreneurs employ one in 10 private-sector workers, or a total of 13 million people. http://bit.ly/Rk8mo
10. TILTING. Forget Work-Life Balance And Build A Lifestyle ~ Ryan Healy http://bit.ly/1zVuKd
11. How to be positive when things suck. Love the title. http://bit.ly/1ZSAra
12. Healthcare: Performance management, engagement, and succession planning are keys. http://bit.ly/COSnJ
13. Choice – paradox – work. http://bit.ly/3KrPaS
14. Latest employee engagement news posted at THE NETWORK. http://bit.ly/aTyXw
15. Today at Work Cartoon on Stress by @junson. http://bit.ly/3dUnyR
16. See who is here. A list of the fantastic authors of Employee Engagement Advice in One Sentence http://bit.ly/1Vh63v