Think “conflate” for employee engagement in 2019. To conflate is to mix together. We must strive to ensure our behaviors for engagement conflate results, relationships, wellbeing, and career.

As you offer performance feedback connect that to achieving results, building a relationship, to developing the other person’s career, and to increasing the wellbeing of both of you.

One input – many outputs.

Do you know how to fully engage with your work so that both you and others fully experience all the benefits of your labor?

In 2019, I am devoted to helping educate others to get more into their work to get more out of their work. If you or your organization would like to learn more to fully engage please take the next moment to contact me: david@davidzinger.com. We can discuss possibilities around coaching, keynotes, workshops, or internal consulting.

Engage along with me, our best is yet to be.

Good work requires more than sheer effort, it requires knowledge and skills. It require an acuity to the moment and recognizing each moment invites us to engage with the work in front of us. It means embedding our moments within a bigger story as we string or stack moments for a momentous career.

I decided to make a video to sum up my 25,000 hours devoted to work engagement, personal engagement, leadership engagement, and employee engagement.

Below is my 23 minute 56 second video that was done in just one-take to share with you the future of engagement in 2019 and what I believe about the power of moments in igniting, enhancing, and build work engagement.

Below you will find the key points from the video.

If you prefer a wonderful and colorful PDF document containing these key points, click here.

Here are the key points from Engage the Moment:

• The secret: We are looking in the wrong place to improve employee engagement.
• Engagement is to be found in the moment and moments are the fundamental building blocks of engagement.
• There is no stress in the present moment.
• When we fully engage, we are also enhancing our wellbeing and lowering our stress.
• Ask yourself this great time management question: What is the best use of my time right now?
• Drivers and levers are poor fit concepts to explain a personal responsibility for engagement approach.
• Engagement is an invitation.
• Engagement can be defined in 8 simple words: good work done well with others every day.
• Trying to achieve and proclaim Great Work often isn’t so great.
• The way to achieve great work is to do good work every day.
• Good work can literally make us well.
• We are responsible for engagement while we influence others’ engagement.
• Some of us are more engaged with our smart phones than the tasks and relationships right in front of us.
• Can you treat engagement as well as you treat your smart phone?
• Do you charge both your smart phone and yourself up every night?
• An excellent engagement trigger is after you use your phone to ask yourself: What can I do right now to improve engagement for myself of someone else in the organization?
• Engagement is not about PowerPoints and survey results it is about actions and interactions. There is no way to engagement, to engage is the way.

• Four focuses for engagement are ABCD: Achieve results | Build relationships | Cultivate wellbeing | Develop career
• Attach your moments and small actions to the bigger story or strategy of your organization.
• Add spice to moments so that you focus on results: keep asking yourself and others “what you want, what you really, really want.”
• Engagement is not an extra it is the core of work.
• Prevent iatrogenic disengagement – our attempts to engage employees that instead end up disengaging employees.
• Anonymity can be a killer of engagement yet we rely on anonymous surveys.
• Disengagement should not be a punishable offence it should trigger dialogue, conversation, and connection or re-connection.

• Engagement is the diamond in the heart of work and wellbeing
• Engagement is not something we do to people or for people it is something we do with people.
• To get everyone on the same page, follow the Positive Deviancy dictum: never do anything about me without me.
• Determine your Engagement Zone or E-zone: How long can you stay engaged.
• David’s fine-tuned E-zone if eleven minutes and eleven seconds.
• David offers 3 suggestions on how to determine the length and efficacy of your personal E-zone.
• We have 20,000 possible moments every day.

• When will you turn engagement around? How about the next moment?
• Recognize or support someone else at work right now.
• Study the academic focus on work engagement by Arnold Bakker and others to infuse work with vigor, absorption, and dedication.
• Learn why snakes and ladders is such a vital metaphor for engagement at work.

• A powerful leadership question to ask in many situations: What stood out for you?
• Prevent and manage setbacks — can you make a ladder out of snakes?
• Study John Gottman’s relationship moments composed of bids and turns.
• Bids and turns are very predictive of engagement and relationships.
• Make lots of bids and keep turning towards others.
• Engagement thrives on strong relationships, good friends, and effective connections.
• High quality connections occurring in the moments of time between people is a huge source of personal and organizational energy.
• There is no secret in engagement. The real requirement is to step up to, and into, the moment of engagement.
• Mindfulness is related to personal engagement.
• Authentic, powerful, personal engagement is only a moment away.
• What are you going to do in the next moment?
• Keep on asking: what can I do right now to improve engagement for myself or someone else in our organization? Turn your answer into an action or interaction that contributes to achieving results, building relationships, cultivating career, and developing career.

I am so pleased to be part of such a great and eclectic group of speakers at the HR Virtual Summit #HRVirtual18 on Thursday November 8th. Look below to see the amazing groups of speakers, titles, and topics.

My session is at 12PM Pacific Time. To register for my session or any of the sessions below visit: https://www.bamboohr.com/virtual/?utm_source=Ev-DZinge–HRVirtSum18

Keynote: Ben Peterson — 3 Steps to More Influential HR

8:30 PT

Jon Wolske

Culture and Service – How to WOW in all directions

Kimberly Jones

Be a Talent Acquisition Superhero

Leela Srinivasan

EX meets CX: The Rising Partnership between HR and Marketing

Dana Brownlee

The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up: Surviving (and Thriving) the “Difficult Boss”

Bindu Lokre

Consciously Unbiased

Katrina Kibben

How to Write Better Job Descriptions

Dr. Tanvi Gautam

Narrative as a Powerful Tool for Digital Transformation

Toni Thompson

Culture Adds: Attracting the Best Talent with Your Employer Brand

9:00 PT

Kevin Kruse

AI for Manager Training: Lessons Learned Building a Leadership Coach with IBM Watson

Dean Pichee

Changes, Challenges and Choices: The Future of Workplace Learning

Stephanie Angelo

Mastering Intentional Strategic Thinking Skills for Maximum Impact in Your Organization

Michael Bungay Stanier

The Five Real Reasons Managers Don’t Coach

Sonya Sepahban

Workplace Diversity and Inclusion: Raise the Bar with a System Approach

Costa Michailidis

How Creative Problem Solvers Save the World

Jack Altman

Performance & Engagement. Better Together

Cassie Whitlock

Culture + Total Rewards = Winning EVP

9:30 PT

Keynote:  Adam Grant — How to Navigate a Culture of Diverse Thinkers

10:00 PT

Len Strazza & Andrew Norton

The Importance of Getting New Hires Ramped Up Quickly

Josh Tolan

How To Supercharge Your Hiring with Video Interviews

Keri Ohlrich

Be an HR Warrior

Dr. Susan O’Malley

Three Leadership Lessons from an Emergency Room Doctor

Kelly Charles-Collins

Out of Many, One Workforce: How Diversity & Inclusion Unlocks Innovation and Drives Market Growth

Lydia Frank

2018 Compensation Best Report Findings

Ryan Sanders

Caring for the Whole Employee

Julie Ann Sullivan

Catalysts of Culture – Visionary Leaders Activating the Employee Experience

10:30 PT

Aaron Huang

4 Tips to Scaling Employee Communication in the Modern Tech-Enabled Workforce

Leah Brown

Staying Power: How to Keep your Employees Longer

Tina Robinson

Technology is not the ONLY Solution: Bust the Myths about HR Technology that Keep HR Transactional, Disempowered, and Longing for Radical Transformation

Margaret Spence

We Need You to Lead Us: Radically Transforming Your Approach to Developing Women Leaders

Jason Shen

Using Case Studies and Take Home Projects to Reduce Bias in Hiring and Recruit Diverse High Performers

Stella Grizont

How to Master Difficult Conversations at Work

Amanda Haddaway

Your Employees Hate Your Performance Review: Here’s What to Do About It

Julie Jeannotte

How to Build an HR Team People Actually Want to Come To

11:00 PT

Keynote:  Julie Coucoules — The Evolution of Modern Recruiters

11:30 PT

Graden Hudson

Using Communication Apps to Engage Employees

Maisha Cannon

Strengthen Your Sourcing with 3 Simple Strategies

Amy Gallo

4 Steps to Decide How to Handle a Conflict

Lori Kleiman

Lets Talk Leadership: 5 Steps to Making an Impact

Stacey Gordon

Inclusionomics: The Cost of Unconscious Bias

Erica Pepe

I Usually Never Respond to These

Neil McKinnon

Embracing the (Virtual) Reality

Srinivas Rao

Designing Your Environments to Increase Your Productivity and Creativity

12:00 PT

David Zinger

Engage the Moment: How You Can Make the Most of Moments at Work for Yourself and your Organization

Kuba Kucharski

Refactoring Tech Recruitment: Tips From an Engineering Leader

Liz Weber

Become the Strategic Business Partner Your Organization Needs!

Dawn Cacciotti

Strategic HR Leadership: Yielding Positive Business Results

Simone Morris

Don’t Ignore me: How to be All-Inclusive when Building Relationships

Tracy Stuckrath

Discrimination in the Workplace: What’s Food & Beverage Got to Do with It?

Jamison West

Nurturing Purpose Through Performance Development

Dan Schawbel

Back to Human: How Great Leaders Create Connection in the Age of Isolation

12:30 PT

Keynote:  Julian Treasure – How to Create a Listening Organisation

Keynote:  Johnny Taylor – Writing our Own Future

1:00 PT

Dr. Erika Tierney Garms

Building Brain-Friendly Workplaces

Amy Berman

Achieve Your HR Goals and Grow Your Business By Leveraging AI, Text Message, and Live Chat

Liane Davey

The Good Fight: Productive Conflict in Day-to-Day Business

Dr. Marcia Reynolds

Building a Coaching Culture

Jose Velasco

SAP Autism at Work

James Lord & Rick Palaia

Transitioning Candidates to Employees: How to Maintain a Positive Experience

Robert St-Jacques

Uncovering the ROI of Your Performance Management Program

Rich Fernandez

A Future-Ready Mind: Useful Mental Habits for an Age of Uncertainty, Complexity, and Disruption