Comments on: Employee Engagement: Do Your Part, Infuse Your Heart Into Your Work http://www.davidzinger.com/employee-engagement-do-your-part-infuse-your-heart-into-your-work-1795/ The best in employee engagement... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:03:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Zinger http://www.davidzinger.com/employee-engagement-do-your-part-infuse-your-heart-into-your-work-1795/comment-page-1/#comment-2102 David Zinger Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:12:45 +0000 http://www.davidzinger.com/?p=1795#comment-2102 Marsha. Sounds like just show me the money not the "love." J.D. Not much more you can do than give your best. David Marsha.
Sounds like just show me the money not the “love.”

J.D.
Not much more you can do than give your best.
David

]]> By: J.D. Meier http://www.davidzinger.com/employee-engagement-do-your-part-infuse-your-heart-into-your-work-1795/comment-page-1/#comment-2088 J.D. Meier Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:37:14 +0000 http://www.davidzinger.com/?p=1795#comment-2088 It's a continuous challenge of getting lost in my work, yet being able to quickly divorce my ego or ideas or even results ... when they need a good beating, or the business isn't ready, or it's time to switch gears. While it helps to know the scoreboard, it's important to focus one pitch at a time. I've learned to find the joy in giving my best and I think that's the real key. It’s a continuous challenge of getting lost in my work, yet being able to quickly divorce my ego or ideas or even results … when they need a good beating, or the business isn’t ready, or it’s time to switch gears.

While it helps to know the scoreboard, it’s important to focus one pitch at a time.

I’ve learned to find the joy in giving my best and I think that’s the real key.

]]> By: Marsha Keeffer http://www.davidzinger.com/employee-engagement-do-your-part-infuse-your-heart-into-your-work-1795/comment-page-1/#comment-2087 Marsha Keeffer Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:38:31 +0000 http://www.davidzinger.com/?p=1795#comment-2087 Heart means managers coach their team and encourage optimal performance. This is the time to connect with and retain people, providing extras that keep them engaged and thriving on the job. I just talked with a friend who reports to an executive who goes out of his way to demean and minimize his people. Bad move - only fools manage from their ego. In a contraction, people will stay. But when there's an improvement in the economy they'll leave in droves. This same exec was so incensed by an employee's request for a $3K raise, that he let 7 years of strong performance and IP walk out the door - and now will pay a new employee $20K more to fill the empty job - a training session in how to shoot yourself in the foot! Heart means managers coach their team and encourage optimal performance. This is the time to connect with and retain people, providing extras that keep them engaged and thriving on the job.

I just talked with a friend who reports to an executive who goes out of his way to demean and minimize his people. Bad move – only fools manage from their ego. In a contraction, people will stay. But when there’s an improvement in the economy they’ll leave in droves.

This same exec was so incensed by an employee’s request for a $3K raise, that he let 7 years of strong performance and IP walk out the door – and now will pay a new employee $20K more to fill the empty job – a training session in how to shoot yourself in the foot!

]]> By: David Zinger http://www.davidzinger.com/employee-engagement-do-your-part-infuse-your-heart-into-your-work-1795/comment-page-1/#comment-2085 David Zinger Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:35:11 +0000 http://www.davidzinger.com/?p=1795#comment-2085 Thanks Terry, I think we often think of love as mushy touchy feely and it can be that but the art of love is discipline, concentration, and patience. I didn't see the show but I would have loved to have seen it. David Thanks Terry,
I think we often think of love as mushy touchy feely and it can be that but the art of love is discipline, concentration, and patience.
I didn’t see the show but I would have loved to have seen it.
David

]]> By: Terrence Seamon http://www.davidzinger.com/employee-engagement-do-your-part-infuse-your-heart-into-your-work-1795/comment-page-1/#comment-2084 Terrence Seamon Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:28:06 +0000 http://www.davidzinger.com/?p=1795#comment-2084 Good post, David. Very important, though seldom expressed. By any chance, did you catch the Golden Globes awards show on TV last night? One of the winners, Irish actor Colin Farrell, spoke about love in his acceptance speech. Terry Good post, David. Very important, though seldom expressed.

By any chance, did you catch the Golden Globes awards show on TV last night? One of the winners, Irish actor Colin Farrell, spoke about love in his acceptance speech.

Terry

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