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Working Zingers: Recognition Pin

September 18, 2010 by David Zinger 2 Comments

Ouch

During the annual recognition gala

Jim pinned

the coveted long service pin

right through Julia’s blouse

piercing her skin.

Julia yelped.

Jim stumbled

fumbled

and dropped the pin

down Julia’s blouse.

The annual

employee recognition effort

ended for another year.

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David Zinger, M.Ed., works with organizations and individuals to foster engagement.  He is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant who founded the 3000 member Employee Engagement Network. David’s book, Zengage: How to Get More Into Your Work to Get More Out of Your Work will be released this September.  David’s website offers 1100 free posts/articles on the engagement. David is committed to fostering a movement to increase employee engagement 20% by 2020.

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Comments

  1. Derek Irvine, Globoforce says

    September 20, 2010 at 10:44 am

    Simply beautiful, David. You have succinctly, but quite successfully, skewered all that is wrong with the “lapel pin approach” to employee recognition — annual only, uncomfortable, undesired, undesirable.

    You’ve written much more elegantly what it took me an entire post ( http://www.globoforce.com/blog/?p=484 ) to rail against “the way we’ve always done it” with lame pins that nobody wants or wears anymore.

  2. David Zinger says

    September 20, 2010 at 11:04 am

    Derek:
    Thank you for the positive feedback and for not sending me a pin.
    David

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