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Employee Engagement: Just Another Brick in the … Pyramid

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Here are 10 “bricks” I use for employee engagement.

Pyramid of Employee Engagement and Engaged Well-Being

The bricks from top to bottom and left to right are: results, performance, progress, relationships, recognition, moments, strengths, meaning, wellbeing, and energy.

They were unstructured bricks until one day I played with them and they rearranged themselves into a pyramid.

I like the 10 bricks and the pyramid but you can use your own bricks or another structure for employee engagement. Perhaps you can use my bricks or structure as a foundation or a launching pad. Or maybe in rejecting my bricks and structure you make a stronger declaration of your own approach. They key is that it has to work for you and who you work with.

What are your “bricks” and how are they structured for engagement?

Here is a short video made by m ss ng p eces (love their name) in conjunction with MIT Media Lab Knotty Objects to inspire you to think differently about your bricks for engagement:

MIT Media Lab Knotty Objects: Brick from m ss ng p eces on Vimeo.

This video is one of a series of videos in collaboration between m ss ng p eces and MIT Media Lab for the Knotty Objects Summit, the first MIT Media Lab Summit devoted to design.

David Zinger is a Canadian employee engagement speaker and expert who believes we need to be more playful in how we approach engagement.

Employee Engagement Calling in Winnipeg

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If you are in Winnipeg on September 24th (my 61st. birthday). I invite you to join me for an employee engagement session for Manitoba Customer Contact Association.

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Employee Engagement Calling

How You Can Change Engagement from a Busy Signal into a Vital Way of Working?

with David Zinger

At times, employee engagement seems to be a bunch of noise and management jargon. Yet employee engagement makes significant contributions to both individuals and organizations. Engagement improves customer service, performance, and profits while increasing employee retention, happiness, and well-being.

David Zinger removes the jargon of employee engagement with a simple eight-word definition of employee engagement: good work done well with others every day.

Join with David for an engaging morning that will improve work for both you and your organization. Learn how work can make you well and how you can improve your own engagement while influencing other people’s engagement. David will have us focus on the small, simple, significant, strategic, and sustainable behaviors that make a difference in our work so that our work makes a difference for us. David will also help participants look at the principles and practices of work gamification.

David applies the 10 building blocks from the pyramid of engagement to improve: results, performance, progress, relationships, recognition, moments, strengths, meaning, wellbeing, and energy.

His approach is engaging, evidence-based, current, informative, interactive, and practical. The morning offers an inspiring and informative mix of the latest information on engagement, fused with interaction to examine and improve engagement, finishing with practical and tactical behaviors you can start using during the workshop and on your next shift.

As an added bonus David will be looking at gamification. The application of gaming principles and practices to work and organizations, has been gathering momentum over the past 5 years. Game designers know how to keep players engaged and we have much to learn from them. During the workshop we will look at four key principles for games and how simple gamification can be used to make work more engaging. For example, David has gamified his work and wellbeing actions for the past 3 years and it has improved work productivity, overall wellbeing, and social contribution.

David Zinger is an employee engagement speaker and expert who works around the world on employee engagement and resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Employee Engagement Pyramid: 10 Keys to Engaging The Power of One

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A singular approach to employee engagement

Employee Engagement Model: Pyramid of Employee Engagement

I am working on the power of one and singularity in my employee engagement practice.  I have revisited my pyramid of employee engagement and awoke to another layer of it. This is a phenomenal coaching model to use with my clients who are striving towards full and powerful effectiveness, engagement, and efficiency. It offer a structure for them to follow and a structure for us to dialogue and develop engaging actions.

  1. Results: Work on what the client wants to achieve and for them to articulate the results. Discuss what needs to end and discuss what the end is they have in mind.
  2. Performance: Determine what the client will need to do to achieve results and how they make key performances worthy of their attention.
  3. Progress: Monitor and work towards progress and manage setbacks.
  4. Relationships: Determine key relationships that will be vital for the client.
  5. Recognition: Create self-recognition and fully recognize others.
  6. Moments: Determine a fine level of granularity of what behaviors to build, foster, and advance.
  7. Strengths: Determine and utilize strengths and use those strengths on a daily basis.
  8. Meaning: Focus on the why of work and find the why behind the results for self and others.
  9. Wellbeing: Encourage wellbeing found inside of work.
  10. Energy: Ensure that work is an energy gain and determine how to energize others.

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David Zinger is an employee engagement speaker and coach based in Canada.

Foster Recognition: 5 of 10 Daily Questions to Improve Employee Engagement

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Fostering Recognition

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Pyramid Model of Employee Engagement

This is the fifth of a 2 week series outlining a different engaging question you can ask yourself each day. The questions are derived from the pyramid of employee engagement. Here is today’s question based on fostering recognition, the center block on the pyramid of employee engagement.

How will I recognize someone this week for their good work?

David Zinger developed the 10 block pyramid of employee engagement as a model to structure strong, simple, sustainable and tactical improvements in employee engagement.

Build Relationships: 4 of 10 Daily Questions to Improve Employee Engagement

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Building Relationships

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Pyramid Model of Employee Engagement

This is the fourth of a 2 week series outlining a different engaging question you can ask yourself each day. The questions are derived from the pyramid of employee engagement. Here is today’s question based on building relationships, the fourth block on the pyramid of employee engagement.

What can I do this week to build and strengthen one key relationship at work?

David Zinger developed the 10 block pyramid of employee engagement as a model to structure strong, simple, sustainable and tactical improvements in employee engagement.