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What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
My whole life...like everyone.
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Fairfield, Iowa

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"We Could Be Heroes"

We could be heroes...! - David Bowie, Heroes

That's how engaged employees think. We could be heroes... just for one day!

And they think it every day. They say it every day. They reinforce it with each other every day.

We could be heroes ....just for one day!

Words don't really communicate it. Listen here. Hear what I mean.

And yes, I take responsibility for this song playing in your head th… Continue

Posted on September 4, 2008 at 1:03pm —

Zane Safrit

"Everybody goes home happy"

Customers and employees. Everybody goes home happy.

That's from Jake McKee, Community Guy blogger and Chief Ant Wrangler at Ant's Eye View. That's one of his mantras. Everybody goes home happy.

It ties in nicely with a post I did y'day titled: ...make sure they want to come back the next day.

If EverContinue

Posted on August 20, 2008 at 7:26pm —

Zane Safrit

People Don't Hate Change...

I found a great Manifesto at ChangeThis titled People Don't Hate Change, They Hate How You're Trying to Change Them. .

It's by Michael Kanazawa, a member here.

Consider this paragraph:

If you believe that people hate change and that it is your job to change them, they will hate it. If you believe that people thrive on change and that your job is to unleash it, you will tap into a limitless source of ingenuity, energy and drive thatContinue

Posted on July 29, 2008 at 4:08pm — 4 Comments

Zane Safrit

Interview with Member Angela Maiers

UPDATE: Angela's on the way to the hospital this morning. Not life-threatening, but needs her attention. We'll reschedule. And in the meantime, leave her get-well wishes here.

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I'm delighted to be able to spend the morning talking with Angela Maiers on my BlogTalk Radio show.

Angela has a passion for creating engaged teachers a… Continue

Posted on June 4, 2008 at 8:30am —

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At 1:49am on June 29, 2008, Jon Hoel said…
Zane

I found your posts to this discussion thread on social media very interesting.

I've set up this new sub-group on using social media, and look forward to joining the ongoing conversation.
At 8:42am on April 29, 2008, Wayne Turmel said…
Zane, welcome aboard. Enjoy the ride.
At 11:28pm on April 28, 2008, David Zinger said…
Zane,
From Zane to Zinger I think we have the Z's covered on this site. Pleased to see you join and I look forward to your active participation and point of view.
David
At 6:47pm on April 28, 2008, Terrence Seamon said…
Hello Zane,
Welcome to the EE Network. I see you have joined the Manager Tools group too. Good to have you come aboard.
Terry
 
 

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