Employee Engagement: Flowing with Change
David Zinger
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David Zinger
Extending Invitations to Experience and Engage with Who and What Matters to You
Do you flow into employee engagement ready, willing, and able to change? Can you change your perspective, approach, and behaviour?
We need to make progress with employee engagement and what seems to thwart our progress is getting stuck or staying rigid with our understanding and approach to our work with engagement.
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ~ George Bernard Shaw
So here is one little engaging question: When was the last time you changed your mind about engagement and when is the next time you will change your mind about how to engage?
Author, Consultant in Organizational Behavioral Management, Engagement, and Leadership Development
7 年We all are continuously changing! Although unconcious, our change is in reaction to the environment, context, or culture, what ever label you want to place on it. Our brains are hard wired to look for change, especially change that is confusing, anxiety provoking, and even threatening. The threshold for why, what, and how we engage is different for all of us. In the absence of those confusing or threatening circumstances our natural reaction is trust and cooperation, two essential elements of engagement.
CHIEF ENGINEER WATER & POWER DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, PAKISTAN (EX-CHIEF RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE WAPDA, KARACHI)
7 年Since there is continuous water falls it definitely leaves some impacts on the surrounding areas, so for this a study should carryout for planning to overcome these barrier/ debris etc.
We sell GREAT tools for engagement and collaboration, globally. Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine game and the Square Wheels images.
7 年Yeah, but look at all the erosion that water has caused over the years! For many people, actively engaging and actually listening to their people is similar to riding a barrel over the falls! Wow, the risk of actually asking a question instead of telling the answer. Are you crazy? SO many align with Samuel Goldwin's quote, "When I want your opinion, I will give it to you." Or Dilbert: "Change is good. You go first." More and More, I think that engagement is going to come from the corporate anarchy bubbling up from the bottom with some Disruptive Engagement that will spin off from the dissatisfaction with working conditions and the avoidance of Corporate HR and the Command and Control frameworks of tops-down directives. I suggest we give all the people fire hoses and work to clean things up from the bottom. (Ya think? Please not tongue completely in cheek on this one...)