South Africa Mining Excellence. It was both an honor and a privilege to be invited to address OPEX12, The Operational Excellence in Mining Conference, in South Africa this month. Geoff Ronaldson, a consultant involved in lean thinking, business improvement, social interaction systems and coaching using SYMLOG, Kolbe Conative Index and Mission Directed Work Teams, invited to me speak on engagement and mining. Using a variety of tools and perspectives I believe Geoff, Peter, and their team are doing some very impressive work in the mining industry. The conference was very informative and included a tour of a local platinum smelter. I was tremendously impressed by the work of the operational teams and their use of visual data to carry on their supervision and management of the operations.

Recording. We had a slight glitch recording my session so after the conference I summarized some keys to mining for engagement with the understanding and application of the employee engagement pyramid. Here is that 20 minute summary. If the recording fails to open in this window, click here.

A short review of David Zinger’s Mining for Engagement presentation at the OPEX mining conference in South Africa. David outlines employee engagement and offers the pyramid of engagement as 10 building blocks for engagement.

David Zinger is a global expert on employee engagement including founding and hosting the 4700+ member Employee Engagement Network. He is devoted to helping organizations and individuals fully engage in work to build and sustain successful and meaningful results and relationships. If you would like more information about his services or to book him for your employee engagement needs contact him at zingerdj@gmail.com.