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ZENGAGEHow to get more INTO your work

to get more OUT of your work

David Zinger

From the founder of the Employee Engagement Network

Foreword by Peter W. HartIllustration and Design by John Junson

Acclaim for David Zinger’s Zengage How to get more into your work

to get more out of your work

“From the heart, mind and soul of David Zinger, a man in the midst of the employee engagement movement, comes a set of reflections on the many facets of employee engagement. With each page, David unwraps a single thought, a tile, if you will, and places it before us. Taking time to reflect on each thought and how it applies to one’s life, produces a complex yet simple and elegant mosaic of greater insight, self awareness and balance. By the end, Zengage prepares readers to move forward in a healthier, more centered and productive state.”Michael Lee Stallard, Author, Fired Up or Burned Out and The Connection Culture Manifesto

“David Zinger’s Zengage delivers an experience, not just a read. Each lesson engaged me in the moment and surfaced again in a real-life, teachable moment. There is no wasted space, but the right amount of white space for personal growth.”Steve Roesler, Principal and Founder, The Steve Roesler Group

“Zengage offers fast, useful tips to help you find the space you need to get engaged or re-engaged in your life’s work. David Zinger has done a great job blending his unique sense of humor into this wonderful book to create something managers can read, use, and share with their employees. Don’t just engage: Zengage!” Phil GerbyshakFounder TheManagementExperts.com

“Using his clever, humorous, stimulating and infectious style, David has given himself fully to this thought provoking and inspiring text. I encourage everyone to use this book as a practical guide to build the will and the skill needed to find happiness at work and in life.”Jean-Francois HivonManaging Partner, Shared Visions

“Work is a part of life. What you make of that part is up to you. Filled with insights, inspiration, and humor, Zengagement shares effective ways to breathe life into your work and make your moments count.”J.D. Meier, Author of Getting Results the Agile Way

“David Zinger is the Seth Godin of employee engagement. With the perfect balance of humor and wisdom, he offers lessons to make you think, and change.”Scott H. YoungScotthyoung.com

“Building on the wisdom of David Zinger’s incredible engagement network, Zengage is a small, pithy, visually-stunning book that invites us to be still, jump in, not wobble. David’s work is all about letting go of the ego to let the power of “we” drive the project, and this book explores how. Zengage melds some of the energy of the West, with Eastern wisdom about noticing, listening, and non-striving. Thanks David!”Kirsten Olson, Ed.D., Author of Wounded By School and the forthcoming, New Learners for the New Economy

“I’ve always had a reverence for the depths to be plunged through work, and so I love the way Zengage helps me wallow in my reverence and be self-indulgent. Yes, in work. In glorious work. David delights in his understanding of work’s magic, so give in to what you’ve been missing.”Rosa Say Author of Managing with Aloha

Three Zingers On Zengage

“Zengage is like a B12 shot - just the right blast of inspiration and provocation. I love this collection and think every busy professional should start and end their days by reading a few pages.”

“Life is subjective and David Zinger’s Zengage is a perfect gem that will help us all get in the best possible mindset to make the most of our day. Each page offers a lightening bolt of inspiration.”

“Zengage is a wonderful tool for anyone who occasionally lets stress and worry get the better of them. Oh, wait, that’s all of us! Zengage to zim and zoom through your best life.”

Lisa Haneberglisahaneberg.comAuthor of Focus Like a Laser Beam

Zengage

Get more into your workto get more out of your work

David Zinger

Foreword by Peter Hart

David Zinger AssociatesWinnipeg Manitoba

Canada

www.davidzinger.com

Copyright © 2010 by David Zinger

This book is copyrighted material. All rights reserved.

It is against the law to make copies of this material without getting specific written permission in advance from the author, David Zinger. No part of this publication may be

reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,

photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the author.

Zengage: How to get more into your work to get more out of your work/ written by David Zinger

Published 2010 by David Zinger

Design, layout, and production: John B. Junson

This book is dedicated to my mother Genevieve and my father Jack who taught me much about work

and how to work. It is dedicated to my wife Susan who continues to teach me daily about work. It is also dedicated to my children Jack, Katharine and Luke who I trust will learn the beauty and benefits

derived from engaged working.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart,

to give yourself to it. ~ Buddha

Table of ContentsAction..............................................................Alertness..........................................................Change.............................................................Connection......................................................Eclecticism......................................................Effort...............................................................Energy.............................................................Focus...............................................................Humor..............................................................Inspiration.......................................................Triggers...........................................................Meaning.......................................................... Moments.........................................................Moxie..............................................................Relationships...................................................Acts of Engagement........................................Zengage...........................................................Zengage: Write On!.........................................Reading List.....................................................

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Foreword Only my friend David Zinger would think of combining the ancient art of Zen with the modern science of engagement! But when you think about it, it all makes perfect sense. Zen meditation promotes direct acts of wisdom and understanding that leads to enlightenment. Engage-ment only happens when we as individuals take the time to understand ourselves and others and act ac-cordingly. David’s collection of inspiration is designed to help you connect in a deeper way with yourself and others. It will get you one step closer to living a more mean-ingful life at work and at home. Zengage my friends!

Peter W. Hart President and CEORideau Recognition SolutionsMontreal, Quebec

Acknowledgments

This book is co-created and would not exist without the faith, support, influence, and input of family, friends, educators, peers, students, and clients.

I am indebted to my mother who always wanted me to be a writer and gave me the gift of creativity and my father who gave me the gift of words and critical thinking.

This book would not exist without my wife, Susan, and our three children – Jack, Katharine, and Luke. I don’t know how many times Susan said write a book!

This book has been co-created with John Junson, my friend, business partner, and exquisite designer. John is responsible for the cover, the layout, the design of this book, and countless conversations about the project.

Introduction

This book is a fusion of Zen and Engagement - Zengage. The focus is on employee engagement to help you get more into your work so that you will get more out of your work. I trust you will read these powerful and pithy statements as invitations to fully engage in your work, your working relationships, and your organization.

Read the statements as invitations. Hear these invitations inside your head, move them through your heart, and let them come out of your hands in the doing of work. For powerful engagement, we need head, heart, and hands united in engagement.

The invitations are concise because this is a book about doing not reading. You can start anywhere in the book. You can read one statement and bring it into focus for the day or you can read a bunch of statements to stimulate your engagement like an extra large cup of coffee may stimulate the start of your day.

If you walk, just walk.If you sit, just sit;

but whatever you do,don’t wobble.

~ Ummon

I have fused Zen and engagement together. I have studied, yet not practiced, Zen for 35 years. It started when as a business school student. I would read D. T. Suzuki and Alan Watts rather than study business mathematics. I dropped out of business school but never dropped the zen reading. I have continued my study of Zen for 35 years even though the authors have shifted to Shunryu Suzuki and Thich Nhat Hanh.

Zen is the art of living by paying full attention to whatever we are doing in the moment. I imagine most Zen masters would be comfortable with the concept of engagement. We engage fully at work when there is no separation between the worker and the work. As D. T. Suzuki stated: “Zen teaches nothing: it merely enables us to wake up and be-come aware. It does not teach, it points.”

I trust these invitations point the way. And remember, “don’t wobble.”

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Engage Action

The journey of alifetime of workbegins with the

first minute.

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Engage ActionNo problem.

Employee engagement is anexperience to be lived

not a problem to be solved.

This is the real answerto a problem

we do not have.

Remember, work is no problem.


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Engage ActionLean into engagement.

Small is the new significant.

Live Kaizen by taking

small steps towards more engagement everyday.

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Engage ActionMake the eight rights.

Work with rightunderstanding,

thoughts, speech, action,

livelihood, effort,

mindfulness, and

concentration.


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Get moving.

Keep asking yourself: What comes next?

If the anticipated resultfails to please you

ask the question againand generate a new response.

Engage Action

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Engage Action

Navigate work with your energy GPS.

If work = energy gain then continue in

the same direction.

If work = energy drain then change directionor go back until you

experience an energy gain.

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Engage Alertness

Wake up.

You won’t find zengagement on a pillow so get out of bed and head off

to work.

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Engage Alertness

Don’t be alarmed.

Hopefully the only alarming thing for you today

was the alarm clock

that woke you up.

Anticipate your work.


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Engage Alertness

Stop paying attention.

Give your full attentionto whatever you are doingwhenever and wherever

you are doing it.

You don’t have to pay attention, it costs nothing

and offers everything.

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Engage Change

Embrace your ups and downs.

Life/work balance is nota static state

or an achievement.

Ride the teeter totterof playful

adjustments between

work and life.

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Engage Change

How do you get to work?

Transitions mean endings.

Create transition rituals to get yourself physically and

psychologicallyto work.

At the end of the day reverse directions.


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Engage Change

Impermanence.

Nothing lasts so there is no point striving

to always be engaged.

Even disengagement

fades over time.

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Engage Change

Every day isGroundhog Day.

Recall your first

fresh and enthusiastic day at work.

Repeat dailyuntil retirement.

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Engage Connection

The corporate calligraphers.

To get everyone on the same page

ensure everyone has the opportunity

to write on that page.

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Engage Connection

Work Yeti?

Don’t be the missing link.Be connected to

your work, your organization,

your manager, your peers

and to your ownhappiness and meaning.


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Engage Connection

Stop going around in circles.

Join the circle of self

with the circle of work

until the twobecome one.

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Engage Connection

Look who’s talking.

If you fail to have engaging conversations

with others at work as often as possible

then you may be sowingthe seeds of disengagement

with empty ears and a still tongue.


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Engage Connection

Just 2 it.

Work is better together.

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Engage Connection“We” is the new “me”.

10 words - 2 letters.

If it is to be, it is up to me no longer works

in our co-created lives.

If it is to be, it is up to we.

Drop ego and connect.


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Engage Connection

Climb every mountain.

Multiple connections or threads

woven togethercreate strong

climbing ropes and strong engagementin the workplace.

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Engage Connection

Lost and found.

Don’t lose yourselfin your work

because there will be

nothing left foryour family

your communityor even

yourself.

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Engage Eclecticism

Take off the black hat.

Only Hollywood needs villains and victims.

Don’t villainize others.

Don’t be a victim.

You are not helpless.

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Engage Eclecticism

Who’s on first?

You come first. The customer or client

comes second.

The second the customer appears they come first.

Once they leave you are back on first.

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Finding Gumption

Gumption is not a place in India or something

belonging to Forest Gump.

Gumption is being at ease with your arms up to the elbow

in the unique greaseof your work.

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Engage Effort

Give 80%.

Work is a marathon not a sprint.

Don’t give 110%. Ease into effortless effort.

Stride along at 80%to sustain work at high levels over the long haul.


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Engage Effort

Give Me a Brake.

Work gets broken without breaks.

Break up workbefore work

breaks you up.

Put the brakeson nonstop effort.

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Engage Effort

No refuge.

If you believe work is a refuge for people with

nothing better to do find something else to do

because you are seeking false refuge.

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Bounce?

Engagement isn’t being bouncy like Tigger

from Winnie-The-Pooh.

Tame your Tigger.

Focus energy. Build relationships.

Get results.

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Are you ever ready?

Leaders are not alwaysthe people in charge.

Engaged leaders are the people

who take chargeby charging people up.

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Engage Focus

WorkAll else is extra.

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Engage Focus

A know-no at work

Know your no. State your no.

Live your know-no to create space

for your bigger yes.


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Engage Focus

Elastic Time.

Peak performance

at work is making moments

feel like hours and hours feel like moments.

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Engage Focus

Shine a light

Hawthorne Electric taught us an old lesson:

Shine a light on employees and they’ll perform

enlightened work.

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Engage Humor

Good morning.

W.C. Fields said start your day off with a smile

and get it over with.If you agree

perhaps you should work the night shiftso the smile is the last thing you do

before falling asleep.

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Engage Humor

This is no joke.

When you laugh, you last.

Ensure humor lightens your load and laugh with levity to lighten the

gravity of work.


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Engage Humor

A long shot at work.

Charlie Chaplin said that life was a tragedy in close up and a comedy in long shot.

Shorten your time cycles to get a long shot on tough

work situationsimmediately.

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Engage Humor

To do or to be?

Be to do.

Do to be.

And to be Frank (Sinatra)

“Do-be-do-be-do.”


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Engage Humor

Wear a grin expression.

If work fails to put a smileon your face,

sink your teethinto different work.

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Engage Humor

The yin and yang of work.

Grin with your yin at work.

You’ll get a bigger yang

for your buck.


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Engage Humor

Smile trumps Bozo

We don’t need clownsto be happy at work

(unless we work in a circus).

A real smilewhen meeting another person

will trump a Bozo anytime.

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Engage Inspiration

Rules are for playground bullies.

Drop the rules for working or work to rule.

Experience work as an invitation.

Accept the invitation. Show up.

See what unfolds.

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Engage Inspiration

Said or done?

When all is said and doneZengage means getting

more done with less said.


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Engage Inspiration

Aussie advice.

“Go for it and give it heaps.”

This was engagement advice Australian-style received from two beer swilling

Aussie bikers 30 years ago.

It is still good advice todayeven without the beer.

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Engage Inspiration

Watch out for woozles.

You may be following yourself deeper and deeper

into disengagement. Know the tracks you are tracking

into the dark tunnelcould be your own.


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Engage Inspiration

Get inspired.

Take a slow deep easy

breath.

Exhale stress, inhale energy.

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Engage Inspiration

The $10,000,000 question?

If you won $10,000,000 would work change for you?

Don’t wait (it likely won’t happen).

Make the idea as real as you can today,

without the cash.

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Engage Triggers

Button down engagement.

Blue collar. White collar.

Hot under the collar.

Are you being collared too tightly at work?

Undo your top button.

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Engage Triggers

This is important.

Don’t let the urgent become so important

that the important is no longer

urgent?


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Engage Triggers

You’re late.

Better late than never is wrong.

It should be: Better never late.

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Engage Triggers

Endings.

What needs to stop for you to end

disengagement:habit?

cynicism? entitlement?

this job?

Come to a full stop before proceeding.


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Engage Triggers

Attain your black belt.

Engage fully in your work.

Don’t be afraid to get mucky

for this is what naturally changes

a white belt into a black belt.

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Engage Triggers

Koan.

What is the sound of one hand clapping ?

Just a lot of hot air.

Just like hands,we work better

together.


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Engage Triggers

Big ears?

Yoda said there is no try.

Stop trying and start doing

and of course a light saber and big ears can help

us get the job done.

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Engage Triggers

One small step,one giant step.

Thich Nhat Hanh said, “peace is every step”

Engagement is not a destination.

It is mindfully engaging in every step of our work.


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Engage Triggers

Engagement paradox.

If you are disengaged become aware and accepting of your

current state.

The way out is through.

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Engage Triggers

Two orders of engagement please.

The chicken/egg work dilemma.

Does engagement come before work or does work come before engagement?


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Engage Triggers

The right stuff may be wrong.

Even if you are right you might be wrong

if you insist on being right.

Good conversationsare about learning and

changing minds,especially your own.

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Engage Triggers

Eric Fromm believed love required discipline,

concentration, and patience.

We need this tough troikato work with what we love

and to love our work.


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Engage Triggers

Transform enraged into engaged.

Enraged means you care.

Determine what you needto do to carefully transform

the energy of enrage into the energy of engage.

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Can I take your order?

If you treat every day at work

like going through a drive thru restaurant don’t expect to be

nourished by what you do.

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Engage Meaning

It just makes sense.

When you lose your mind and come to your senses you will sense a lot more

in work than you originally thought.


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Engage Meaning

Join the Y!

If you have a why to work you can bear any how.

Connect to your whyand help everyone

you work withfind their why too.

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Engage Meaning

Accounts payable.

You are not a victim.

Be responsible for your own work and accountable

for the impact you have on others.


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Fill’er up.

Work fills us when we arewillful, skillful, and mindful.

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Engage Moments

Stop dreaming.

Meditation is not about

closing your eyes and falling asleep. It is about being open and alive to

the work right in front of you.

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Hopeless engagement.

Don’t be hopeful about workbecause hope is a speed trap

fast forwarding you to the future.

Slow down for the work zone

right in front of you.


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Zen today.

Nothing special.

Before engagement there was work,

after engagement there is work.

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Engage Moments

Chop. Brush. Work.

When chopping wood, chop.

When brushing teeth, brush.

When working, work.


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Engage Moments

Feel the flow.

Get into flow by balancing

accelerating skills with

escalating challenges.

Otherwise you’ll dwell in boredom or anxiety.

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Engage Moments

We have failedour technologywhen we allow

working anywhere at anytime

to become working everywhere all the time.


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Engage Moments

From days to dazed.

We all have bad days but don’t get so badly dazed

by work that you believe

bad days are normal.

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One moment please.

There is little or no stress in the present moment

so stop ruminating and anticipating.

Open your eyes and yourself to the present.

The present is the bestgift you ever get at work.


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Goal for it.

Don’t make goals to accomplish, use goals to give you direction.

We lose engagement when we focus on the goal at the expense of the job

right in front of us.

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Engage Moxie

Play the engagement card.

If work was Texas hold’em what kind of deal

do you need to go all in?

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Freudian work.

Even Sigmund Freud believed successful living

meant functioning well in work and love.

Get super successful, love your work

and work with love.

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Don’t get huffed or puffed.

Bosses are not wolves. They might be bad but

as long as we make them into huffy villains

we become one of the 3 little pigs.

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Managers be warned.

Don’t be bossy. It doesn’t work.

Any precocious 4 year old will put you on notice with, “you’re not the boss of me.”


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Are you screening your life?

Don’t be a screen sucker. You’ll get sucked into

your screen.

You will fail to see the genuine smileand shining eyes

of the person right in front of you.

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Whatever.

If anyone at work

tells you to “deal with it.”

Look for a new dealer.


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Real people power.

Don’t be a thumbody when you are

with somebody.

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Listen up, down, and sideways.

Don’t pretend to understand anyone

by saying “I understand”.

Rather, demonstrate your understanding

before you wantto be understood.


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Acknowledge your gratitude.

You would not be here without thousands

who came before you.

Who got you here?(and I don’t meanthe bus driver!)

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When you realize you are a host for your work,

ensure you welcome work

fully into your life.

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Employee Engagement A Play on Work

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Acts of Engagement

Tragedy: Act 1, Scene 1

The alarm sounds…keep hitting

snooze button…dream day ends

as soon aspossible.

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Acts of Engagement


Arrive late.Who cares?

Go for coffee.

Ponder if paper cut is severe enough for long term disability.


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Acts of Engagement


Avoid coworkers and boss.

Avoid work.Keep avoiding right to 5:00.

Return home, watch TV all night.

Repeat daily.

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Adventure: Act 2, Scene 1

Wake up. Perk up.

Have coffee. Anticipate the day.

Head to work energizedand engaged

with a box of donuts.


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Acts of Engagement


Connect with peers and leaders,

work and organization.

Achieve results.

Offer contributions that benefit the organization,

others, and yourself.

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Acts of Engagement


Return home.

Engage fully with family and community.

Experience rejuvenating sleep preparing you

for tomorrow’sengagements.

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Zengage

Dealt a bad hand?

If you leave engagement in someone’s else’s hands you should know the house always wins.

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Shift focus.

You won’t find zengagement in

these words.

Put the book down, look around

and engage in what needs doing.


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Serve with honor.

Just because work is a service to someone else,

doesn’t mean you have to act like an indignant servant.

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Take a look.

If you look for reasons to be disengaged you can always find them.

If you look for reasons to be engaged you

can always find them.

Where are you looking?


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Zengagement is a positive virus

at work.

Let your work become infectious.

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Equanimity.

Keep your composure even while feeling

compressed.


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Constant change.

Yin is constant.

Yang is change.

Be constant in change and change constantly.

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The best time to change is right here, right now.

There is no magic in calendars, the future,

or procrastination.


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Hierarchies are for outdated

organizational charts.

Accountability means checking in with people

not checking up on people.

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If you think you are a leader

you better be checking if anyone else is thinking that too.


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Engage acceptance.

Acceptance is not acquiescence.

Just because you start with acceptance

doesn’t mean you stay there.

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When the big hand is on...

Stop watching the hands on the

face of the clock.

Rather, watch and face up

to what you are doing.


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Box or container?

Is your job description

a coffin-like box for work or a container

of infinitecontribution?

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Be human.

HR isn’t the resourcing of humanity.

HR is the humanizing of resources.


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We are interrupted at work everysix minutes.

The key is to remain focused for the next six minutes

before being interrupted again.

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We are all performers.

Performance is anything worthy of

our attention.

Ensure you make important

things worthy of your attention and

the attention of others.


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Be value-able.

Know your values.

Offer value everyday.

Now that’s being valuable.

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Look out below.

If work is an iceberg, you have many resources

below the surface.

Bring them to the surface today.


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Stop and drop and roll.

When you feel stress:

Stop.Drop the stress.

Roll with what makes you well.

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Dojo mojo.

If the workplace was a dojo

would you bring your mojo everyday?


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Empowerment is an inside job.

No one can empower you.

You already have power. Recognize it.

Apply it. Live it.

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Find your sole at work.

Zengagement is less about the soul

and more about moving the soles of your feet

one step at a time.


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Soak it up.

Work is a sponge. You are water.

Let who you are be fully absorbed into what you do.

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Bye the book.

Read the book and determine

what fits for you.

Let the book live through you.

Engage.

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Zengage:Write On!The following pages

are for you

A personal space for your own thoughts,

ideas, words and artwork

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Reading List

A finger can be used to point to the moon but woe be those who mistake

the finger for the moon.

Here are some books that have inspired this book.

Ezra Bayda, Zen Heart

Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow

J. J. Gibbs, Dancing with Your Books

Thich Naht Hanh, Peace is Every Step

Eugen Herrigel and Daisetz T. Suzuki, Zen in the Art of Archery

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever Your Go, There You Are

Patricia Madsen, Improv Wisdom

Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

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Why employee engagement and why now?Work has changed. Command and control are archaic and motivation is anemic. Employee engagement is the most robust and beneficial approach to get results in the age of co-created work and conversation. It transcends being an HR buzzword to creating powerful connections between all elements of the organization and results.

Who works with David Zinger?His clients include Investor’s Group, Convergys, ICBC, Thompson Rivers University, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Manitoba Hydro, etc. In addition, he chaired the Employee Engagement Conference in Barcelona in 2009 and presented on engagement in Warsaw in 2010.

About David Zingerwww.davidzinger.comDavid Zinger, M.Ed., is a global expert on employee engagement and founder of the Employee Engagement Network. His website has over 1000 articles/posts on the topic. Mr. Zinger has worked with employee engagement from British Columbia to Barcelona and Warsaw to Winnipeg. Visit David Zinger at: www.davidzinger.com

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What does David Zinger offer?He offers powerful result-focused and person-centered speaking, education, coaching, and consulting to meet the needs of each client. Organizations appreciate his leading-edge insights and approaches, spoken in the language of meaning, community, humor, story, and results.

What is the future of employee engagement?The future is now as we move beyond surveys and simplistic techniques to integrating employee engagement into all facets of the organization’s approach to serving customers and creating results. To sustain engagement initiatives, employees must experience the rich benefits of engagement for themselves.

What are the next steps?Read David Zinger’s blog and scan the Employee Engagement Model at his website. Join the growing Employee Engagement Network.

How do I get in touch with David Zinger?Contact him today at [email protected] or phone (204) 254-2130.

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ZENGAGE“In Zengage, David Zinger has succeeded in communicating his vast knowledge and wisdom with the brevity of a Zen haiku and the heart of a humanist. This is a book that guides through wisdom and information while remaining totally engaging.”Judy Bardwick Author of Danger in the Comfort Zone and One Foot Out of the Door

“Zengage is a fast, easy read. If you make it a fast, easy read, you will completely miss the incredible insight that comes from the information on a single page. Or a single line on a page. If you read and reflect, you will learn about yourself and how to engage in your work.”Scot Herrick Owner of Cube Rules

“Don’t just “read” Zengage. Savor it line by line. Come back to it again and again. You will learn or remember how to more fully engage with your work. And you may smile a lot. I did.”Dick Richards Change Agent, author of Is Your Genius at Work?

David Zinger, M.Ed., is a global expert on employee engagement. He has worked with employee engagement from British Columbia to Barcelona and Warsaw to Winnipeg. Visit David Zinger at: www. davidzinger.com

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