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Working Zingers: Nourished at Work

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Work as Soul Food: Fed or Nourished?

Pizza parties

piece of cake

cookies too

donuts dunked

in copious coffee quaffed

chocolates on desks

stacked in Inukshuk figures

guiding the way to the lunch room

weaving by assorted candies scattered

around the office like seashells at a beach.

The challenge is not

to be fed at work

it is to

prepare

share

and create work

that nourishes

stomach and soul

without heaping on the bonbons.

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David Zinger, M.Ed., works with organizations and individuals foster engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 2700 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s website offers you  1100 free posts/articles on the engagement. David is committed to fostering a movement to increase employee engagement 20% by 2020.

Connect with David Zinger today to improve engagement where you work.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  –  Phone 204 254 2130  –  Website: www.davidzinger.com

Working Zingers: Engaging Breaks

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We need a break

or work gets broken.

Stop the constant work

with a

b

r

e

a

k

today.

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David Zinger, M.Ed., helps organizations and individuals improve engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 2600 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s website offers you  1100 posts/articles on the engagement reaching  over 1,000,000 page views in the first 4 months of 2010.

Connect with David Zinger today to improve engagement where you work.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  –  Phone 204 254 2130  –  Website: www.davidzinger.com

Working Zingers: Work as the World Cup

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GGGGGooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllll.

If our work was World Cup Football

we would feel the crowds around us

be able to wither in pain when our proposal is rejected

get yellow cards for stealing someone’s lunch out of the fridge

and a red card for stealing someone’s brilliant quality improvement idea.

We would not receive a golden handshake

but someone would get the golden boot.

We could kick up a fuss and run like mad inside the field

as announcers commented on our lack of engagement

while our every move was debated

and instantly displayed on replay monitors around the world.

And we would be given a few extra minutes to work before lunch

or at the end of the day to make up for the time we wasted

pointing fingers of blame and lamenting our fate.

Of course nobody would hear us above the roar of the crowd

or the amplified hive-like buzz of the vuvuzelas.

From a distance you would notice that

most of us would just be watching

while only a few people pitched in.

Of course this is not time for poetry

I must head to the closest television to watch Maradona’s

flamboyant coaching of  Argentina

while I shudder to think of him running naked in Buenos Aires.

Ja Yebo

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David Zinger, M.Ed., helps organizations and individuals improve engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 2600 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s website offers you  1100 posts/articles on the engagement reaching  over 1,000,000 page views in the first 4 months of 2010.

Contact David Zinger today to improve engagement where you work.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  –  Phone 204 254 2130  –  Website: www.davidzinger.com

Working Zingers: Waiting

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A Question of Waiting

Is waiting a room

you sit impatiently in

feeling the weight of the world

holding you back

from what you seek

or is waiting

a space you inhabit

as long as your are there?

What are you waiting for

and where are you

while you wait?

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David Zinger, M.Ed., helps organizations and individuals improve engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 2600 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s website offers you  1100 posts/articles on the engagement reaching  over 1,000,000 page views in the first 4 months of 2010.

Connect with David Zinger today to improve engagement where you work.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca  –  Phone 204 254 2130  –  Website: www.davidzinger.com

Working Zingers: An Expression of Courage

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The course of courage

Courage

at work

is expression

not impression.

Not medals

but meddle

into what

we care about

not exclusively

but inclusively.

Courage is

the heart at work

and hearty work.

Rather than

a course in courage

courage is following our course.

Of course also

making corrections

while remaining true.

We don’t find courage

we express it.

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David Zinger, M.Ed., is an employee engagement writer, educator, speaker, coach, and consultant. David founded and moderates the 2400+ member Employee Engagement Network. His personal website offers 1000 posts/articles relating to employee engagement and reached over 1,000,000 page views in under 4 months in 2010. David is involved in the application of Enterprise 2.0 approaches to engagement and the precursor, creating engaging approaches to communication, collaboration, and community within Enterprise 2.0.

Connect with David Zinger today for education, speaking, and coaching on engagement.

Email: dzinger@shaw.ca Phone 204 254 2130 Website: www.davidzinger.com