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Engage-5 with Ana-Maria Calin

April 20, 2009 by David Zinger 1 Comment

Engage 5 is a weekly feature of Employee Engagement Zingers. Engage-5 asks leading thinkers, writers, consultants, and others involved in employee engagement to complete 5 sentences.

Read Ana-Maria Calin’s 5 sentences on engagement:

  1. I define employee engagement as a work-related state of well-being, whereby employees invest very high levels of physical, mental and emotional resources in their job performance.
  2. Our biggest challenge in employee engagement is to communicate engagement with emotion and back our enthusiasm with proof, so that cynicism can be avoided.
  3. A powerful way to create greater employee engagement is to promote creation of engagement as a “pass-it-on”, top-down task: engage managers at all levels to engage everyone they come in contact with at work also, not necessarily ALL their employees (impossible in huge teams, or departments).
  4. I am personally most engaged at work when I MUST not do my work, but I WANT to do it.
  5. To learn more about employee engagement, I encourage people to find a way of building a bridge between the humanity of employees and the cold, dead rationality of organizations’ needs and scopes.

Ana-Maria is a student at “Politehnica” University in Bucharest, Romania

Filed Under: Employee Engagement

Comments

  1. DebbieNorris says

    April 24, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    The “I WANT to do it” thing really resonates. When people are thinking that way, things are going well. Five nice sentences. Thanks!

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