Today at Work Cartoon - Episode 15

Employee Engagement: Just When You Thought You Had Seen it All

What are you doing this Friday? STAFF STRIP NAKED TO IMPROVE MORALE Staff at a design and marketing company in Newcastle spent a day working together naked after being told it would improve their morale. David Taylor, a business psychologist, told workers at design and marketing onebestway, in Newcastle upon Tyne, that [...]

Working Poem…An Ode to Personal Branding

The Pathway to Personal Branding … Are you branded? Painted and tainted by marketing mavens. Packaged like a box of Tide Until soap stings your eyes … Can you be a personal brand without a logo a swoosh a blog a tweet or a tightly rehearsed 30 second elevator speech? … Would you ever want to be stuck in an elevator sealed in as the door closes and your 13-floor traveling companion regales [...]

Happy Canada Day: Dave Pollard on What Canada Could Be

What Canada Could Be Dave Pollard wrote this wonderful piece on what Canada could be on his site: How to Save the World. I was so moved by it I asked his permission to reprint it and offer it here in celebration of Canada Day. Even if you are not from Canada it will give you [...]

Energy Co-Creators: The Raw Material of Employee Engagement

What role does energy play in employee engagement? Do you have the energy for engagement? Does your energy engage others? How do you recharge for full engagement? Rosa Say on Leadership and Management Energy. Are you using an energy lens to examine engagement in your workplace. I strongly encourage you to read Rosa Say’s recent post on 3 ways [...]

Engage 5 with Samantha Grant

Engage 5 is a weekly feature of Employee Engagement Zingers. Engage-5 asks leading thinkers, writers, consultants, and others involved in employee engagement to complete 5 sentences. Read Samantha Grant’s 5 sentences on engagement: I define employee engagement as connectedness, inspiration, willingness to contribute to a big cause or the common good. Our biggest challenge in employee engagement is [...]

Employee Engagement and Your Team

Here is a very good basic slide presentation by Amir Saif on employee engagement and engaged team members: Re Assign Team View more presentations from Amir Saif .

Today at Work Cartoon - Episode 14

Employee Engagement: Always On?

Are you a screen sucker? Pull up the covers turn on the screen. According to Credant Technologies 25% of employees in Britain go to bed with their laptops, cellphones and BlackBerrys. 57% of those who work in bed work between 2 to 6 hours a week. Good vibrations? Do you screen the very person in front of [...]

Employee Engagement: On The Treadmill

Here is a wonderful snippet from Jon Gordon’s blog about Will Smith’s Secret to Success. What does a treadmill have to do with Will Smith’s success as a movie star and actor? When asked by an interviewer to explain his success, he responded: “I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be outworked. You [...]