Engage: Get Moving
Moving into Employee Engagement
by David Zinger
Our body needs movement to maximize our use of oxygen, increase our flexibility, and physically contribute to our levels of engagement. Get regular exercise but more immediately ensure that you move every hour to 90 minutes. Overcome Newton’s law: A body at rest tends to stay at rest.
Here are a couple of “moving” statement from Jim Loehr’s in The Power of Story:
Lack of movement = Lack of energy
To perform better, you need to move more.
Movement is the most powerful stimulant the body experiences.
To exercise get moving beyond your comfort zone:
Comfort: bad. Pain: bad. Discomfort: perfect.
Get comfortable with discomfort, move right into employee engagement, and when you need to perk up remember that movement not coffee is the most powerful stimulant for the body.
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David Zinger's 20/20 vision is to foster a 20% global increase in employee engagement by the year 2020. Join him in this quest to enhance engagement for the benefit of all as low levels of engagement are bad for employees, organizations, customers, and the economy.
I tend to move around my office a lot. Sometimes I’ll take the elevator downstairs and pace around our building a few times – I find that even a couple of minutes of movement will help keep me refreshed and it makes it easier for me to get stuff done afterwards.