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Zengagement: Fly Into Attention

April 18, 2008 by David Zinger 2 Comments

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

Filed Under: Employee Engagement

Comments

  1. Mike Healy says

    April 19, 2008 at 4:26 am

    Hi David

    Did you ever follow through with pairing the Hawthorne effect with employee engagement?

    Mike

  2. David Zinger says

    April 20, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    Hi Mike,
    I will follow up within one or two weeks.
    David

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