Archives for July 2010

Employee Engagement and Happiness

Employee engagement is seeing a stronger focus on well-being in 2010. Happiness is a part of our well-being. I encourage you to watch this video and take steps to enhance your happiness.

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David Zinger, M.Ed., is an employee engagement writer, educator, speaker, coach, and consultant. He offers exceptional contributions on employee engagement for leaders, managers, and employees. David founded and moderates the 2270 member Employee Engagement Network. His website offers 1000 posts/articles relating to employee engagement and strength based leadership. David is involved in the application of Enterprise 2.0 approaches to engagement and the precursor, creating engaging approaches to communication, collaboration, and community within Enterprise 2.0.

Book David for education, speaking, and coaching on engagement today for 2010.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  Phone 204 254 2130  Website: www.davidzinger.com

Dance the MOJO 2-Step!

Are you taking the right steps to finding your Mojo at work? Marshall Goldsmith defined Mojo as “that positive spirit toward what we are doing now that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside.”  I just finished rereading Marshall Goldsmith’s book Mojo.  Click here to read my previous review.

Dance a Daily MOJO 2-Step Assessment:

Step 1: Track Your Tasks.

Record your activities for a day.

Step 2: Analyze your Tasks

How much long term benefit or meaning did I experience form each task?

How much short term satisfaction or happiness did I experience from each task?

Meaning and happiness. If you don’t score high on meaning and happiness it is time to enhance your mojo.

MOJO Meter App & Beyond the 2 Step. If you want to learn more read MOJO: How to get it, how to keepit, how to get it back if you lose it. To get more detailed analysis or tools including a MOJO meter app visit www.mojothebook.com.

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David Zinger, M.Ed., works with global organizations and individuals to foster engagement.  David  is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant. He founded the 2751 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s website offers you  1100 free posts on the engagement. David is committed to fostering a movement to increase employee engagement 20% by 2020!

Connect with David Zinger today to improve engagement where you work.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  –  Phone 204 254 2130  –  Website: www.davidzinger.com

Employee Morale: Driving Performance in Challenging Times by David Bowles and Cary Cooper.

David and Cary created a well-written and well thought out book on employee morale and the links between morale and performance. The biggest benefit of morale is individual and organizational performance and the authors present the evidence for “morale correlating highly with, and driving, performance is strong and growing” (p.59). Morale can empower of disable the organization’s ability to achieve its goals.

A question (questions) of morale. Here is a thoughtful section that began Chapter 2:

Its Monday morning in Beijing, London or Sydney; do you really know how your employees there are doing?

And then:

• How do you know?
• From whom did you learn it?
• Do those from whom you learned it represent the whole organization?
• When did you least find out?
• Could there have been a shift since then?
• Are you SURE that what you know is true?
• What are the consequences if what you think is true, is not?

Management upgrade. The most practical chapter was chapter 5 on creating/maintaining the high morale organization.  We can manage morale and the strongest effect on morale is a “management upgrade.” The authors offer a number of perspective and suggestions around strengthening morale through strengthening management.

I recommend the book and it would make a great textbook for a university course or Morale and Organizational Behavior.

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David Zinger, M.Ed., works with organizations and individuals foster engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 2700 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s website offers you  1100 free posts/articles on the engagement. David is committed to fostering a movement to increase employee engagement 20% by 2020.

Connect with David Zinger today to improve engagement where you work.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  –  Phone 204 254 2130  –  Website: www.davidzinger.com

Employee Engagement Extra

Here is David Clarke’s well-designed short slide share presentation on motivation and engagement using Dan Pink’s drive perspective.

Enjoy and engage.

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David Zinger, M.Ed., works with global organizations and individuals to foster engagement.  David  is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant. He founded the 2751 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s website offers you  1100 free posts on the engagement. David is committed to fostering a movement to increase employee engagement 20% by 2020!

Connect with David Zinger today to improve engagement where you work.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  –  Phone 204 254 2130  –  Website: www.davidzinger.com

See What I Mean?

There is a mean in meaning

but there doesn’t have to be

meanness at work.

The meaning of work

works for me

when I work on me

while working with meaning.

Say what you mean,

mean what you say,

and never be mean.

That’s what I mean.

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David Zinger, M.Ed., works with global organizations and individuals to foster engagement.  David  is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant. He founded the 2751 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s website offers you  1100 free posts on the engagement. David is committed to fostering a movement to increase employee engagement 20% by 2020!

Connect with David Zinger today to improve engagement where you work.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  –  Phone 204 254 2130  –  Website: www.davidzinger.com