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Employee Engagement: People Artists Add Vibrant Interpersonal Color to Work

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Employee Engagement Through People Artisty

I encourage you to read the full post including such statement as:

Why do we need people artistry when we already have human resources?
People artistry is our plea to focus on the person, not a human resource. People are not resources that should just be managed; they are people we work with every day. People artistry doesn’t reside in a specific department or area of the business; it needs to touch every person from co-workers and people we manage, to cleaning staff and security guards. We trust that after reading “People Artists,” you’ll personalize your approach to work. Think of being a people artist as your way to repay the debt to someone who brought out the best in you.

To read the full article, click here.

David Zinger is a global employee engagement expert and employee engagement speaker.

Join with me for a leap into People Artistry

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Make Work Better: Learn to Leap Into People Artistry

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During February We Are Making A Special Offer to You.

It would personally mean a lot to me if you would take a couple minutes of your precious time and read this email and then took the next step of ordering copies of People Artists to make work better for yourself and everyone you work with.

Are you ready to fully ignite and express your People Artistry at work? Do you know how to draw out the best in others? Are you repaying the debt to all those who brought out the best in you?

People Artists by Peter Hart and David Zinger is a pithy, beautifully illustrated book drawing on the wisdom of leaders who are artists in getting people to engage at work. ~ Harvey Schachter, Globe and Mail, January 5, 2016.

Peter W. Hart and I wrote People Artists: Drawing Out the Best in Others at Work for you and the people you work with. We want to eradicate days of drudgery, wishy-washy weeks, mundane months, and years of yearning with powerful daily doses of robust connection, recognition, and engagement based on the 5 tools of People Artists:

  • Your heart cares
  • Your ears listen
  • Your eyes see
  • Your lips express
  • Your hands give

People Artistry is a social book. We would be pleased if you read the book yourself but we want to assist in creating a workplace that achieves results, builds relationships, and installs wellbeing through a movement of People Artists ready, willing, and able to make work better.

If you’re familiar with David’s take on employee engagement, you know he gets to the heart of what’s important about it: our relationships with each other. People Artists makes a link between our senses, our emotions and intellect, and how we experience the world and create experience for ourselves and others. Each chapter then shows how various people have used these ideas to forge relationships. As an Anthropologist, I greatly enjoyed that the book draws upon people’s stories. The back and forth of illustrations, stories, and invitations to practice and reflect are not something that most people ordinarily think of when they think of work. ~ Jasmine Gartner, Workplace Anthropologist and employee engagement author

During February we are hosting Leap into People Artistry. Don’t allow leap year to pass without helping others at work leap into work. I often ask people if they can draw. Most people say they can’t. This is wrong. Everyone can draw they just might not draw as well as they would like. You can also draw out the best in other at work through People Artistry:

  1. Complete a self-assessment
  2. Learn from 37 other people artists
  3. Apply the 5 tools of the People Artist
  4. Commit yourself to the recommended practices
  5. Don’t let a day go by without drawing out the best in others and encouraging everyone at work to draw out the best from each other.

This slim hardcover book is packed with beautiful art, insights, and actions for work. Think of it as an exquisite mini coffee table book for your office desk.

This is a wonderful book- it’s like opening a gift when you read and experience it fully. I am honoured to be mentioned in the book as a people artist and Iencourage all leaders to pick up a copy. It’s one I keep out on my desk at work so others can discover it too. It’s easy to read, a joy to experience & full of easy & meaningful tips on bring out the best in yourself and others. Enjoy! ~ Leslee Thompson, Former President & CEO of Kingston General Hospital, Currently President and CEO of Accreditation Canada

Try before you buy

Go ahead and try before you buy. You can even take the self-assessment. Check out a sample of the book by clicking on the title: People Artists: Drawing out the Best in Others at Work.

Special Purchase During February

10 or more copies. During February we are doing out best to help you create a community of People Artists in your workplace. If you order 10 or more copies we are offering this $19.95 hardcover book for just $14.95 plus shipping.

100 copies. Even better — if you order 100 copies for your workplace the price is only  $9.95. For under $1000 you can educate, inspire, and encourage 100 people artists where you work!

Order now

To keep this simple, just email me, David Zinger, david@davidzinger.com and I will personally get your order started and if you can’t wait, phone me at 204 254 2130. During February I will personally look after you even, if you just want to order one book for $19.95 plus shipping! 

David Zinger is an employee engagement speaker and expert and co-author of People Artists.

 

People Artists See

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I was so pleased during the last two weeks with the response to the launch of People Artists: Drawing Out the Best in Others at Work.

People Artists See. We see people. It is one of our 5 fundamental tools. I encourage you this week to really see others.

To learn more about the book visit www.peopleartistry.com.

Peter W. Hart, my co-author’s art is inspirational. During the launch at his gallery in Montreal I was captivated by the following image from one of his pictures. I encourage you to see the image as a springboard and be encouraged to be captivated by the people you work with.

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David Zinger is the co-author of People Artists and an international expert and speaker on employee engagement and People Artistry.

Book Launch of People Artists in Winnipeg Tonight (November 30th 7PM)

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People Artists: Drawing Out the Best in Others at Work by Peter W. Hart and myself is launching at 7PM tonight in Winnipeg at McNally Robinson bookstore in Grant Park.

If you are in Winnipeg join with us for the launch and celebration.

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David Zinger co-authored People Artists with Peter W. Hart. This is David’s fourth book on work.

J’aime Paris: A Heartfelt Plea for People Artistry

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Written Saturday November 14th in Istanbul the morning after the Paris Massacre

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We desperately need People Artists. We need people who bring out the best in others. We hear too much about the worst and fail to find, celebrate, and draw out the best. Please join me as a People Artist. Add color to your world to wash away the greyness of disengaged passivity and to obliterate the blackness of hate and terrorism. Be a person who brings out the best in others at work and everywhere else in life rather than a person who destroys, injures, and hurts. Life is too short – draw out the best.

Here is my plea…

 

Everyone is an artist. Don’t wither. Don’t go negative. Lay claim to the artist you already are. It is time to use your senses. It is time to move beyond yourself and make work matter by ensuring people know that they matter.

Artistry is a gift you give rather than a gift you have. People Artistry is a gift you give to others. It may even go beyond them and touch others you never see or never know. People Artistry is more than a pebble in a pond creating shallow ripples it is a positive explosion of recognition, gratitude, appreciation and engagement. It is connection that destroys mediocrity, passivity, and disengagement. And here’s the ironic thing, when you give the gift you receive the gift of moving beyond yourself and drawing out the best.

Accept the invitation. You don’t have to do this but why would you decline? Why would you ignore what brings out the best. This is your daily hero’s journey. Your dragons are ignorance, busyness, and fear. Your light sabre is to see beyond yourself and to connect like there is no tomorrow. Be like all the people who race to get on every flight at the airport, they can’t seem to wait to store their excess baggage and to claim their seat. Get rid of your excess baggage of fear and disconnection and race into a flight of People Artistry.

You owe a debt. Your debt is to the people who brought out the best in you. Perhaps your grandpa, your mother, your teacher, your brother, your friend, your co-worker, your boss. Don’t fail to pass the torch of drawing out the best from those who drew out the best in you.

You already have the tools. Your tools are not in a box or cabinet. They are you. You have a heart to care. You have ears to listen. You have eyes to see. You have lips to express. You have hands to give.

The time is now. Go ahead. Dwell deeply in the art of being human. Share your work. Enliven the blank canvas at work. Banish invisibility of others. Open your heart. Listen deeply. See beyond. Express fully. Reach far.

People Artistry is in your hands

start now,

embark on the journey,

don’t settle for anything less.

J’aime Paris

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David Zinger is an employee engagement expert and speaker from Canada who is in Istanbul to speak on employee engagement. He is also a practicing People Artist engaged in drawing out the best in others. People Artists: How to Draw Out the Best in Others launches in Montreal and Winnipeg at the end of November.