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Employee Engagement: Are You Positive?

July 29, 2013 by David Zinger 2 Comments

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Shannon Polly conducted and posted an engaging  interview with Kim Cameron on virtuous business practices. This is an insightful interview and made me think of the connections between positive organizational scholarship and employee engagement.

Cameron on energy as a key ingredient in employee engagement —

Energizers are trustworthy, they pay attention, they build and foster confidence in others, they are unselfish, and they can solve problems. Others who are not positive energizers are: selfish, self-aggrandizing, not mindful, and only see obstacles.

Cameron on evidence for positive practices —

There is a lot of compelling evidence across industries, continents, and sectors that positive and virtuous practices pay off. Organizations make more money, are more productive, achieve higher quality, produce higher customer satisfaction, and create higher employee engagement. Moreover, evidence suggests that these relationships are causal. When virtuous practices improve, organizational outcomes improve as well.

Dr. Cameron argues  that we engage with positive and virtuous practices because they are the right thing to do  and if “you express gratitude only in order to get a payoff, then it is a manipulation rather than true gratitude.”

Here are two questions to think about a positive approach to employee engagement:

  1. How do you help employees and the organization engage in positive psychology practices such as strengths, energy, and gratitude?
  2. Do you hire for positive energy and individual wellbeing?

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David Zinger is an expert  global employee engagement speaker and consultant who uses the pyramid of employee engagement to help leaders, managers, and organizations increase engagement.

Filed Under: Employee Engagement Tagged With: #E4S, David Zinger Employee Engagement Speaker, energy, gratitude, Kim Cameron, positive organizational scholarship, virtuous business practices gratitude

5 Zingers on Positive Leadership by Kim Cameron

June 24, 2013 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

A five point review of Kim Cameron’s, Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance.

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Kim Cameron, the father of 7 children and co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship, wrote the second edition of a concise  book on positive leadership. I appreciated both the brevity and perspective of Kim’s book. He focuses on positive climate, relationships, communication, and meaning. This is not a saccharin  perspective rather it is research based and brings out the power of positive in the workplace. Hundreds of studies and academic research findings are cited through out the book to offer evidence and support. If you want to have an impact on employee engagement, learning the practices of positive leadership will ensure you make great strides in increasing employee engagement in your organization.

Positive Leadership Book Cover (Kim Cameron)

Here are 5 zingers from the book:

  1. Key words associated with a positive organization are: vitality, flow, generous, excellent, extraordinary, perfect, benevolent, honoring, and flourishing. 
  2. Positive emotions broaden and build so that experiencing positive emotions broadens people’s thought and actions while building their enduring personal resources.
  3. Build a positive climate through acts of compassion, collective forgiveness and gratitude so that people are cared for, supported, and flourish.
  4. Leaders create positive meaning by focusing on the value of an organization’s outcome beyond just personal benefit and they are attuned to the different orientations towards work: job, career, and calling.
  5. Ask yourself: What 2 or 3 actions can I take to enhance my effectiveness as a positive leader?

Cameron offers a pithy book outlining the practices of positive leadership. I am positive you won’t be disappointed by this book. Are you positive about your ability to lead?

David Zinger is a global employee engagement speaker and expert who in 2013 has worked on engagement in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Berlin, Prague and New York. His background is in Counseling and Educational Psychology and he has appreciated a positive orientation towards work going back to the early days of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. To access Mr. Zinger’s services email him: david@davidzinger.com.

Filed Under: Employee Engagement Tagged With: David Zinger Employee Engagement Speaker, Employee Engagement, Kim Cameron, positive leadership

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