Zengagement: Fly Into Attention

The essence of “zengagement” is paying attention.

This post is in honor of Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki, who’s book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind actually got me to hit a blank page in a book when all I could see on the page was a fly.

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Don’t break your monitor!

Focused attention is a robust way to ignite engagement.

A question I often hear is: How do I get fully engaged in my work? There are a myriad of pathways and methods but nothing simpler and stronger than paying attention moment-to-moment with the work you are performing.

Instead of asking how do we engage others start by paying close attention to them. I think most of the answers will come out of really noticing others and when they know you really notice them, they may also work towards higher levels of engagement.

In a future post I will write about paying attention more rigorously by pairing the Hawthorne effect with employee engagement.

David Zinger