Don’t grab a bucket, fill a bucket, and make all the difference in the workplace.
by David Zinger
Business Book Zingers, a new feature I am creating on Slacker Manager, are 5 sentence reviews of classic and contemporary business books.
How Full is Your Bucket was written by Tom Rath and Donald Clifton - Tom’s grandfather / The Grandfather […]
One Week of David Zinger’s Web Contributions
by David Zinger
A few people have asked about the material I produce in a week. Here is an outline for this week:
Slacker Manager
Results of a time survey on how we feel about time at work.
A quick 3 question strength assessment
A humorous look at workplace buzzwords
Employee Engagement Zingers
Employee engagement articles […]
I frequently am asked by my team to help them solve difficult problems with customers, and this week I stepped out of my head and thought about what questions I ask that help get the problem fixed fastest.
What is the real problem? Are you sure you understand the full scope of the problem? If not, […]
Do you hear that Buzz?
by David Zinger
One of our readers, Jamie Wesson, asked a question that created some buzz:
Why has Slacker Manager avoided an expose on buzzwords in business?
To Bee
Or Not to Buzz?
Or as a manager just to create a buzz like a Bee.
That is the question.
And with a question like that, who needs an […]
This is a guest-post from Stephen Smith, who is the editor of Productivity in Context, a resource for articles on Productivity and Leadership, New Media Studies, and tools for organizing. Click here to read more about improving your life and work through increased mindfulness, education, and workflow practices. This article was written with tongue-slightly-in-cheek, so […]
Zinger Survey: Are you into the strong stuff at work?
by David Zinger
How strong are you at work and is your workplace a place for strengths?
Have you ”Gallup’ed” into your strengths or are you still at the strength starting gate?
Have you outlined your strengths as proposed by Peter Drucker or do you avoid strength-focused conversations […]
As a manager, I have weekly reviews with each member of my team. We talk about 3 things:
What’s gone well (and how can we do more of that)
What needs improvement (and how can we improve faster)
What’s the general feeling of how things are going in relation to your goals and the rest of the team.
3 […]
Time Out
by David Zinger
160 participants responded to the question I posed last week on Slacker Manager: How do you feel about time at work?
10.6% - I am in a constant state of flow
1.9% - I have mastered time management
13.8% - I have a very good relationship with time
28.8% - Time just keeps […]
Recently I’ve seen a few folks question our sense of humor at Slacker Manager, and they’ve asked if this is some sort of joke blog or something. Others haven’t seen the humor of our ways, and have taken things very personally, as though we are trying to attack their management style.
To all of those […]
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 […]
This is a guest-post from Stephen Smith, who is the editor of Productivity in Context, a resource for articles on Productivity and Leadership, New Media Studies, and tools for organizing. Click here to read more about improving your life and work through increased mindfulness, education, and workflow practices.
If you’re going to be a Slacker Manager, […]
Is Trust a Bust @ Work?
by David Zinger
Are you creating high levels of trust as a manger.
Foundation of trust. Ms. Barabara Bowes, wrote the column Trust Me: It takes more than words to earn trust of staff, customers in The Winnipeg Free Press. She provided a sound rationale why trust is a must:
Trust is the […]
“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” - Harold S. Geneen
What do you think? Is this leadership? Can you use this for how you lead your team?
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Are you a hamster?
by David Zinger
Survey Results…112 people responded to this question: Do you believe it is appropriate to refer to a category of employees from an employee engagement survey as hamsters (working hard but at the wrong things)?
Yes and No. 54 participants said yes and 58 participants said no. It looks like we have a […]
This is the long weekend in Canada. Time out or time off for good behavior and in Canada we put the “u” into behaviour - that way it is just not for other people, but for all of us.
If you need a Zinger fix for the weekend, Click hereto listen a Blog Talk Radio interview […]
Paving the path of least resistance, so you don't trip and fall.
Written by David Zinger [email], and Phil Gerbyshak [email] for b5media.
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