Make Your Employees’ Lives Easier Using Knowledge Management (4)
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This is a guest post from Aaron Stannard, who is the editor of Working Smarter, a productivity blog for managers and presenters. The best thing a manager can do for his employees, in my opinion, is to make their lives easier by eliminating or simplifying tedious tasks that are not directly related to their employees’ job descriptions. Here’s a list of some of those extraneous tasks that make employees frustrated: Being unable to determine who ...
Free Training Advice for Managers From Olympic Athletes (1)
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Free Training Advice for Managers from Olympians by David Zinger Tomorrow the Olympics will start in China. Do you want to get a “head” start? The Official site of the Olympics is offering 22 short videos by winning Olympians on how to enhance performance. If you go to the official Olympic site the section is called the Olympic Personal Trainer. I believe that these winning Olympic athletes have much to teach managers get the most ...
13 Steps to Read a Blog Post: Zingers Revisited #2 (1)
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A Guide to Reading Blog Posts by David Zinger This post is from August of 2007. I will highlight about one from each month of the last year. I think we often consume blog posts and have no idea was we just took in. I encourage you to scan many posts but when you latch on to a good post to follow the steps below. Have you had the experience of “reading” 10 or 20 ...
Revisiting A Year of Slacker Manager: Zingers Revisited #1 (1)
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Retire Now (Again) by David Zinger I started to co-write Slacker Managerwith Phil Gerbyshak in July 2007. I have written 3 post a week every week for a year. During the next month I will highlight a few of my favorite posts. Here is the first post I wrote for Slacker Manager. - - - - - - - In about 10 years the number of young people getting into the workplace will no longer ...
8 Lessons in Leadership From Nelson Mandela (3)
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Leadership lessons for creating really good trouble. by David Zinger Miki Saxon wrote a post on Richard Stengel’s article on Mandela’s 8 Lessons of Leadership. Miki stated: if you don’t take time to click and read the entire text you’ll be doing yourself and those around you a major disservice. I believe in service so I was challenged to read the detailed article and very happy that I did. Stengel concluded the article with the ...
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Here are the first 7 lessons: 1. Courage is not the absence of fear—it’s inspiring others to move beyond it 2. Lead from the front—but don’t leave your base behind 3. Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front 4. Know your enemy—and learn about his favorite sport 5. Keep your friends close—and your rivals even closer 6. Appearances matter—and remember to smile 7. Nothing is black or white
8 Tips on How to Work From Home: 28 Years of Experience (24)
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There is no place like home. by David Zinger Stephen Smith posed a question about tips for working at home. I have worked at home for about 28 years and this includes a period of having 3 children under 2 years of age. I now have an 18 year old and two 16 year olds at home. Working at home has been instrumental in being able to put family first! Here are a few of ...
300 Free Employee Engagement Ideas E-Book (1)
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Employee Engagement From A to Z by David Zinger Are you looking for ideas to create, build, foster, and sustain employee engagement? In conjunction with 11 other authors from the EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT NETWORK we created a 39 page free e-book to enrich your employee engagement knowledge and efforts. Here are the authors Tim Wright Terrence Seamon Steve Roesler Lisa Forsyth Raven Young Robert Morris Ken Milloy David Zinger Stephen McPherson George Reavis Ian Buckingham Angela ...
Employee Engagement is Retention (1)
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Employee engagement is the answer not an issue. According to research released from TalentKeepers Inc, 81 per cent of business executives consider employee retention as a top priority. One year ago the firgure was only 41 per cent. In the mad scramble to determine how to retain people don’t overlook employee engagement. Often employee engagement is seen as another priority for organizations but in the case of retention it can be seen as a solution. ...
Leading with Flexibility, Honesty, and Transparency. (1)
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Leaders can promote higher levels of employee engagement by engaging in honest and transparent communication that promotes flexibility. Deloitte just released some information that demonstrated transparency and honesty in communication from upper management creates a more open, creative workplace. In addition there is an increasing need for flexibility in how work is done. Today’s workforce demands a more ‘customized’ career path and a tremendous amount of flexibility,” said Sharon L. Allen, Chairman of the Board, ...
Employee Engagement Gets Better With Age (1)
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It is no accident that the word age is embedded in engagement. Sirota Survey Intelligence completed a recent assessment of employee engagement differences across generations. Except for employes age 63 and older the differences between employees’ levels of engagement in their work is fairly narrow around 77% to 80%. The Traditionalist generation - ages 63 and older - were the most engaged in their jobs with an engagement level of 84%. We neglect the value ...
