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Eugenie Bouchard: What a 19 Year Old Rising Tennis Star Can Teach Us About Employee Engagement

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7 Lessons on Employee Engagement from a Teenage Tennis Player

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Eugenie Bouchard (source Wikipedia - Edwin Martinez
Eugenie Bouchard (source Wikipedia – Edwin Martinez

As a Canadian in Winnipeg with the temperature at 42 below, I have caught tennis fever and have enjoyed watching 19 year old Canadian, Eugenie Bouchard, compete in the Australian Open. Her engaged and engaging play, landing her a spot in the semifinals, offers us lessons in engagement.

Here are the 7 engagement lessons I have derived by watching Eugenie play on the other side of the world:

  1. It is always good wherever you work to have a coach. Eugenie has been fortunate to have her coach make the trip with her. Never be afraid of getting lots of coaching to be the best you can be.
  2. Don’t give up, you can infuse inner mental toughness with outer physical composure as you just keep playing your game.
  3. Keep improving performance by making progress while also shaking off setbacks in seconds.
  4. Enjoy your work and embrace your opportunity to be on the center stage.
  5. Know that it takes years of work to become an overnight sensation and when the foundation is laid, expect your success and don’t be surprised by it.
  6. It is always nice to have the support of others (Genie’s army and the country of Canada) behind you, and enjoy and appreciate the love made tangible by the gift of Aussie plush animals they bestow upon you.
  7. At 19, it is okay to say you want to date Justin Bieber. Be poised and assured while never selling out on your youthful moments.

Pyramid Model of Employee Engagement

David Zinger is a Canadian employee engagement expert. He is enjoying the Australian open and honored that his pyramid of engagement has been used by the WTA (Woman’s Tennis Association) in their leadership work.

12 Daily Employee Engagement Prescriptions for 2012

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Here are 12 prescriptions for Employee Engagement in 2012

  • Strive for everyday simple, small, and significant actions.
  • Lighten up your perspective, workload, and intensity.
  • Stop consuming information unless that information contributes to meaningful and important action.
  • Transform the endless quest of more and more  into vital focused contribution.
  • Ask yourself if you really need any more data before you engage.
  • Only measure employee engagement elements that you are ready, willing, and able to change.
  • Set 3 to 6 daily focused power periods from 10 to 30 minutes to fully engage in specific tasks.
  • Be mindful and masterful in helping others engage more fully in their work.
  • Target achieving results and building relationships as your twin goals for engagement.
  • Make progress a daily work expectation, essential and experience.
  • Don’t let the allure and  immediacy of social media fritter away time and energy for your important work.
  • Engagement only comes alive as a verb so engage today!

Prescription: Repeat daily for the remainder of 2012.

David Zinger looks forward to an engaging and productive 2012 as he follows his own prescription and also focuses on his 2012 three-word work theme: Stop – Focus – Finish.

Extra Strength Prescription to help you lighten up:

Take 30 Minutes to Tackle 21 Myths in Employee Engagement

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Don’t myth out on Employee Engagement

30 minutes on employee engagement. When is the last time you spent 30 minutes thinking about employee engagement? What myths surround employee engagement and how do they influence your outlook and actions? David Zinger’s research highlights a series of myths that are associated with employee engagement. These are myths we work by that may not be working for us.

Transforming our myths. Joseph Campbell believed that if myths are to continue to fulfill their vital functions in our modern world, they must continually transform and evolve as older mythologies, untransformed, simply do not address the realities of contemporary life, particularly with regard to the changing cosmological and sociological realities of each new era. The question therefore needs to be asked: Are we operating from an old employee engagement mythology?

21 myths we work with. The 21 myths range from Employee engagement is a noun not a verb to Executive, leaders, and managers are not seen as employees.

Free E-book. This short study guide was written by David Zinger  and produced by Berghind Joseph. It is a practical and cogent employee engagement  resource. To download the PDF E-Book click on the cover above or click on this link: Zinger and Berghind Joseph Myths of Employee Engagement

Contact David Zinger today. Don’t myth out on employee engagement, contact David Zinger to get assistance with your employee engagement endeavors (dzinger@shaw.ca or 204 254-2130).

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