#employeeengagement — David Zinger - Employee Engagement Speaker

My Employee Engagement Course in Bangkok, Thailand

May 8, 2017 by David Zinger 2 Comments

Instil and install employee engagement with small and significant actions.

It was an honour to teach my 2-day employee engagement course in Bangkok last week. The participants were from Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand. We were a small group and it gave us lots of opportunity to work together and to understand employee engagement better together.

The MahaNakon was the inspirational backdrop to our course and very visible from the roof of our hotel. This building inspires a different way of looking at the world.

The MahaNakhon from the Furama Rooftop pool. By David Zinger

Engagement often left us scratching our heads and with many question about how to fully engage others and ourselves. We need to think carefully about what we really want from engagement and we need to keep a very mindful focus on how engagement changes and alters within moments.

Bangkok is exactly 12 hours difference than my home in Winnipeg, Canada and this journey half way around the world enriched and enlivened my learning, views, and teaching for employee engagement.

What most stood out for me about engagement is how we can both instil and install employee engagement with small and significant actions.

David Zinger is an employee engagement educator and speaker.

What we Lost Shifting Personal Engagement to Employee Engagement

January 24, 2017 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

William Kahn if the founding father of employee engagement. We conducted a 2-part interview on his views and experiences with engagement.

An interview with William Kahn, the founding father of employee engagement. https://t.co/TT9gts7hmP

— David Zinger (@davidzinger) January 23, 2017

Here is a quote from William during the interview on what we lost as we shifted terminology from personal engagement to employee engagement,

The shift in the industry to “employee” engagement is, in many ways, a reversal of that idea, and of my intention. The industry focus is on how leaders can get people to work harder and with more energy on behalf of their organizations, with less focus on whether people are bringing their best, cherished selves into that work. I think that the power of the ideas about personal engagement gets lost in that reimagined focus.

To read the full interview go here.

David Zinger is a global employee engagement speaker and expert. He founded the 7200 member Employee Engagement Network.

The Employee Engagement Network: A Labor of Love

January 12, 2017 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

I am heading to Chile, Argentina and Uruguay for a month on Friday.

I am not sure how much online time I will have so I want to acknowledge that the Employee Engagement Network will be celebrating nine years this month. It has been a labor or love and I learned more with every hour I have invested in this community and network! The network would not be what it is without all the work of John Junson!

Visit us today. I can’t wait for 10 years! Engage along with me, the best is yet to be.

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David Zinger is the founder and host of the Employee Engagement Network. He is a global speaker, expert, coach, and consultant on engagement.

Employee Engagement: People Matter, Language Matters

January 5, 2017 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

Stop referring to humans as assets or resources.

We get employee engagement ass backwards when we use language that dehumanizes employees. Read my short LinkedIn post: Employee Engagement: Ass Backwards.

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David Zinger has many assets and resources but he is not an asset or a resource. David Zinger is a human speaker and expert focused on employee engagement.

Employee Engagement: Learn to Love Your Bricks

December 6, 2016 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

How fully do you engage with the work right in front of you?

one-brick

You know the story of the three bricklayers at the same work site.

When asked what they were doing one says, “I am laying bricks.” The next one says, “I am making a building.” The third says, “I am creating a cathedral.”

The story is often told as a moral story about seeing a greater purpose and meaning to your work. The third bricklayer is pointed out as a person with purpose. But I am partial to the first bricklayer who saw what was right in front of him. I am not opposed to cathedral builders and greater purposes but I believe we need to learn to love our bricks.

Feel your work.
See what you are making or doing right now.
Engage fully with what is right in front of you.
Dwell in the here and now.
Dedicate yourself to your bricks.
Be absorbed by your bricks.
Bring energy to your bricks.

We can always engage with the process even when we don’t have control over the final outcome. Know you did your work and you did your work well.

The church steering committee can always cancel the cathedral building project, your boss can fire you, the architect can demolish your wall, or an earthquake can crumble your building — but no one can take what you did away from you when you engage fully each day with your bricks.

There is an old zen saying,

“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”

Just change the word enlightenment to engagement and work can give you all you will ever need in the moment of working.

Bricks can be each customer on the phone, the surgery you are doing right now, or the road you are navigating with your truck or bus.

Your brick is always the work right in front of you in this current moment.

Go ahead, get some kicks out of your bricks.

What’s your brick?

This post was inspired by my wife’s current experiences of work and is dedicated to Albert Johnson from Smiley Saskatchewan

The Great Wall Of Saskatchewan from David Zinger

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David Zinger is an employee engagement expert and speaker whose bricks today were the chiclet keys on his keyboard and the words appearing on his screen.