Employee Engagement: People Artists See Behind Their Own Lenses

February 4, 2016 by David Zinger 2 Comments

How to Leap into People Artistry

Please take 3 minutes to view this short video about six photographers being given six different stories about the man they are asked to photograph. Their story influences the shot they take.

Are you any different?

As People Artists we don’t really see people as they are, we see them as they are in relationship to us and the stories we have about them inside our head.

Tomorrow’s Action Plan: When you arrive at work tomorrow, do your best to either wipe your slate clean, challenge the negative stories you have about another, or simply assume the best about each person you meet and do your best to draw out the best you see.

I trust with this exercise you will recognize that being a good People Artist is as much an inside job as an outward expression.

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. Imagine starting a positive epidemic of People Artistry where you work for under $150 or a positive tsunami of artistry by purchasing 100 books for less than $1000, as 100 or more books is just $9.95 per book. This is less than the price you would pay to send just one person to one workshop!

People Artists is more than a book, it is a gift you give to others and a debt you repay to those who drew out the best in you.

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! I think of this book as a powerful yet easy read for busy people — a picture book for adults, that helps you get the picture on engagement and recognition in your workplace.

You will learn lessons from 37 other People Artists and you will learn to apply the 5 tools of People Artistry in your own life and work.

People Artists makes a great gift or recognition tool to give to all your supervisors, managers, and leaders. Unleash art from gallery walls and infuse people artistry into your workplace to make work better for all.

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 day.

Employee Engagement: Leap Into People Artistry

February 2, 2016 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

Are you ready to Leap Into People Artistry?

From Ground Hog Day on February 2nd (Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow – hopefully an early spring) until leap year day February 29 I am focusing 4 weeks on People Artistry. I encourage you to get involved in drawing out the best in others at work and home.

Today I encourage you to stop seeing shadows at work and look closely and carefully at who you work with. Go out of your way to draw out the best from 3 people today. As you make their day you will find that you are also making yours.

Great 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. 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! People Artists makes a great gift or recognition tool to give to all your supervisors, managers, and leaders. Unleash art from gallery walls and infuse people artistry into your workplace to make work better for all.

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

J’aime Paris: A Heartfelt Plea for People Artistry

November 14, 2015 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

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

People Artists Cover

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

. . .

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.