Employee Engagement and the Verb of Engage
I am currently crafting a 21-point manifesto for employee engagement. I trust I will have it completed in the next 2 weeks and look forward to sharing this document and engaging with people based on a strong action statement of what I believe is required to move employee engagement forward for the next 15 years. […]
Employee Engagement: Focusing on Results Does Not Mean We Can’t be Playful
Why we need to be more like the Spice Girls I believe there is a much greater connection between employee engagement and the Spice Girls than most people imagine. I am not talking about having to form a female quintet dressed in colorful clothing. I am not talking about creating a musical recruiting YouTube video. I am […]
David Zinger Employee Engagement Speaker: Don’t Manage Change (Lesson 4)
Are you ready to change employee engagement? Employee engagement involves change. Virgina Satir, an exceptional family therapist once taught me that people do not resist change. I asked her why people didn’t change and she responded that “the gravity of the familiar keeps pulling us back into its orbit.” What people resist is being compelled or […]
Lesson Three from David Zinger Employee Engagement Speaker: 9 Ways to Engage the Audience
A good employee engagement speaker engages I have been to a lot of conferences and witnessed many presentations on employee engagement. I have spoken on employee engagement on at least 200 occasions. The best presentations engage the attendees with each other and with the topic even in a one hour keynote. We don’t need 100 […]
Employee Engagement Cartoonist John Junson is One in a Million
David Zinger, Employee Engagement Speaker, on Cartoonist & Designer John Junson This is cheating but I feel so right in doing it that I will go ahead and cheat. John Junson, the Employee Engagement Network weekly resident cartoonist, has just published cartoon number 360 on the network. He has completed a full circle of 360 […]
Lesson Two From an Employee Engagement Speaker: Some Things Should Never be Radical!
It should not be radical to be either honest or transparent Employee engagement thrives with honesty and transparency. I trust we don’t have to make the business case for honesty and transparency in the workplace but I am sure someone has set about calculating the return on honesty (ROH) or an even better Dilbert-like acronym, Return […]
Lesson One from David Zinger Employee Engagement Speaker
Employee Engagement Advice is Only Half Right I often start my speeches on employee engagement with the following statement: Half of what I will offer today is right on, half of what I will offer today is wrong, and I don’t know the difference. Responses range from chuckles, to mild disbelief, to a request to […]