Employee and work engagement ask that we become fully absorbed in our work.
How willing are you to become fully absorbed? Do you recognize what that requires?
David Zinger is a Canadian employee engagement speaker and expert focused on the power of everyday employee engagement.
Find Your True Vanilla
I think employee engagement is simple. Please notice that I did not say that employee engagement is easy. We seem to keep expanding employee engagement with hundreds of survey questions and more approaches than you see in a desperate single’s bar on a Friday night. If you are not successful with employee engagement your approach might be part of the cause for a the lack of success.
In my ideal world employee engagement is good work done well with others every day. We don’t have a million statistics and accompanying pie charts — pies should be for eating not representing employee engagement levels. We work with the verb of engage and place the passive noun of engagement into the deep freeze of inertia-laden words.
We are each responsible for our own engagement while being fully cognizant of how what we do impacts other people’s engagement.
We can transform disengagement into engagement in about 12 seconds when we immerse ourselves in the work in front of us and connect to the people around us.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the 10,000 flavors of engagement but it you are stuck and not producing the engagement you would like to see, abandon all the flavors, find your true vanilla, and work with that every day. And if you are successful you can add some sprinkles or branch out into other flavors.
David Zinger employee engagement speaker, consultant, and coach.
I have lived in Winnipeg for 48 years or 80% of my life. I love the community and the terrific people I have become friends with.
For the past 10 years I have been focusing on employee engagement and seem more likely to work in Singapore, Doha, or London than Winnipeg. It is always a pleasure to work at home and I look forward to conducting an employee engagement session this month.
I feel honored to work with the Canadian Institute of Management, that has been around since 1942 (that’s 12 years older than me!). I plan to bring the best I have learned about employee engagement from around the world centered by being in my home city in the center of Canada. If you are in Winnipeg on April 23rd I would love to engage with you at the session.
Join CIM #Winnipeg for ‘Careers In Motion’ on April 23, 2015 with @davidzinger http://t.co/gaQj5YHPsI #CIMevents pic.twitter.com/dYczhz00tX
— CIM (@CIM_National) April 8, 2015