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Employee Engagement: Don’t Contract Into False Labour

September 6, 2016 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

A post Labour Day lament: Are you experiencing a labour of love?

Labour Day

Are you in labour? Have you been labouring under the wrong impression? We celebrated Labour Day in Canada and Labor Day in the United States on September 5th., the first Monday of September. This was a day to celebrate and honour working people. I appreciate the holiday but believe we should celebrate labour every day.

In Canada, as opposed to America, we spell labour with the “u” in it. It got me thinking about the “u” in labour.  Are you in labour? Do you personally engage fully with your work or are you stuck in false labour with the contractions of can’t and won’t?

On one hand, labour is defined as the process of childbirth while it also means to work hard and make great effort. Can you work hard and make strong effort to give birth to your own health and wellbeing experienced through work, not something done after work or outside of work?

I think many of us have a false notion of loving our work. We think it is an effusive emotion and hold onto an unrealistic ideal. At times work is tiring, gritty, and energy depleting but if those times become day after day not only is our work in trouble we are in jeopardy too. I love Erich Fromm’s writing in the Art of Loving. He defines love less as a passive emotion and more as the active manifestation of discipline, concentration, and patience. Do you bring these three lovely attributes to your work?

I encourage you during the year between this labour day and next labour day to take full responsibility for your own engagement. Engagement is not something done “to” you or “for” you it is primarily your connection to your work, the people you work with, and the organization. If you think the organization is responsible for your own engagement it turns you into a potential victim of the organization and work.

Engagement is yours. It can go with you into all the areas of your life. Now don’t get me wrong, there are influences on our engagement, we don’t live in some mythical workplace where everything is a ferry tale. And we don’t work in isolation. We are accountable for the influence we have on others engagement as they are accountable for the influences they have on our engagement.

Lets keep engagement simple – good work done well with others every day.  Labour day is not a once a year holiday it is how you work every day. Labour day is less about time off work and more about fully immersing yourself in the time you are working. Concentrate, be disciplined, be patient, be gritty, and there is a good chance you will be labouring in love.

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David Zinger is an employee engagement speaker and expert from Winnipeg Canada who is focused on The New Employee Engagement, This year he has worked on engagement in: Turkey, Malaysia, Canada, United States, UK, Dubai, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia.

 

 

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The New Employee Engagement

May 26, 2016 by David Zinger 1 Comment

The New Employee Engagement is good work, done well, with others, every day.

3 Musts of the New Employee Engagement

Engagement is not given to us.

Engagement is not something done to us.

Engagement is both our right and our responsibility.

It goes with us.

Each of us is responsible for own engagement while together we are mutually accountable for everyone’s engagement.

Powerful engagement is as simple as ABC: Achieve Results, Build Relationships, and Cultivate Wellbeing.

 

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Befuddled: How are we ever going to manage employee engagement?

April 4, 2016 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

Barely Managing

Manager Feedback

Lou Solomon wrote a provocative and insightful post on the Harvard Business Review blog on March 9th that has me very concerned about managers ability to have a positive impact and influence on employee engagement, “Two-Thirds of Managers Are Uncomfortable Communicating with Employees.”  According to the survey many managers are uncomfortable

with becoming vulnerable, recognizing achievements, delivering the “company line,” giving clear directions, crediting others with having good ideas, speaking face to face, and having difficult feedback conversations in general.

I encourage you to read Lou’s post right now and start working on improving the comfort level of your managers for communication and feedback.

David Zinger is an employee engagement speaker and expert from Canada who was genuinely surprised to hear the high level of uncomfortableness managers have with feedback and communication.

 

 

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Employee Engagement: Do You Work Within Your E-Zone?

February 22, 2016 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

Your E-Zone is the zone or time period in which you are fully engaged with your work.

E-Zone

It is the ideal period to find your vigor, dedication and absorption for work.

  • Vigor gives you energy, persistence and resilience.
  • Dedication helps you be fully involved in your work while experiencing significance, enthusiasm, inspiration, pride and challenge.
  • Absorption is the state of full concentration and being engrossed in your work.

This has been conceptualized, measured and assessed using the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale.

To learn more about your E-Zone and how to find it, read my post on the Halogen site. To click into your E-Zone, click here.

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Question: Why Be A People Artist?

February 8, 2016 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

Why should you be a people artist at work?

People artistry is a form of powerful recognition that recognizes others while enhancing their engagement. It can foster both retention and loyalty. It may increase productivity and profits. But these are instrumental reasons. They are not bad. They are not wrong. They may even be necessary but they are not sufficient.

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Why be a people artists at work? Because people matter. We are in debt to the people who brought out the best in us. We need to be people artists because it is the right thing to do. It is right for others, it is right for ourselves, it is right for our organizations. Like sunflowers following the sun we need to follow the right way to work. Do the right thing…be a people artist.

Special offer

During the LEAP into People Artistry Campaign we will be selling 10 or more copies of People Artists: Drawing Out the Best in Others at Work for just $14.95 a copy plus shipping. If you order 100 or more copies the price is reduced to $9.95 plus shipping. People Artists makes a great gift or recognition tool to give to all your supervisors, managers, and leaders.  This is a phenomenal value for this beautiful hardcover book full of images and insights to bring the people you work with fully to life! You will learn lessons from 37 People Artists and how to apply the 5 tools of People Artistry in your work.

To preview the book sample, click here. To order 10 or more copies of the book contact me directly and I will set this up for you:david@davidzinger.com

David Zinger is an employee engagement speaker and expert. He is working at becoming a better People Artist each and every day.

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