The last word on management is yours…

by David Zinger
Reminder: This is the Change Poverty – Two Cent Challenge. Click the penny below to join us:

Here are the responses you gave to the September 23rd request for one word for management.Thank you for your responses. You have the last word in management on Slacker Manager with David Zinger.This is the last management article I am writing for the blog. In two days, On October 30 I will express my thanks and say my farewell.
Here are the people and their word:

Gerald

Management = Details.

Carrie

Stupidity

Devin Willis
Service

Koen
availability

Harry
Priorities

Phil Dourado
Outdated

JoelC
Management = nurturing

Chris Parente
management = leadership

Darth Sidious
Control

Bo …read more

Overcoming Poverty: It Just Makes Cents – Oct. 26 to Nov. 1.
Calling all bloggers…Small is the New Significant.
Click the coin button below and take a step to Change Poverty.

Two cents a word, your choice for donation, an honest campaign. We are encouraging all bloggers to pledge two cents a word for every word they write in their blog between October 26th and November 1st. to their favorite or local charity involved in work to lessen or overcome poverty. As a blogger, we respect both your choices and honesty. We want you to be able to choose who to …read more

Let’s keep it simple

by David Zinger
Don’t lose sight of happiness at work.
Slide into happiness with this short slide presentation on Happiness at Work.
Watch the slides and then be determined to be happy.
Remember: Happiness is the ultimate currency at work.
Stay current.

Many of you might know David Zinger only as one half of Slacker Manager, but you only know half the story. David’s “day job” is an employee engagement expert, consulting with organizations on how to improve their employees engagement.
He may not share all he does with us here at Slacker Manager, but that’s mostly because we don’t ask Dr. Z enough questions. :)
Recently Sybil Stershic interviewed David about employee engagement, and asked him some very tough questions:

How does David define employee engagement?
Why does David think there are so many managers who don’t get the importance of effectively …read more

Are you ready to Fall ahead?

by David Zinger
Happy New Year. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere we have just completed July and August and we are moving into September and the fall.
Click here to read a short post I wrote at Employee Engagement Zingers about September 1st. being my psychological and learning New Year’s Day.

Are you refreshed and fierce? Do you feel you have a freshness for September? I hope you have taken some time during the summer to slow down, move into different rhythms, rejuvenate, rest, and get fierce for the fall.
Management musings. A few questions to move …read more

Do you want to fly for free? Are you ready to make a pig of yourself?

Click here to read a review I wrote a of Jack Hayhow Jr.’s Wisdom of the Flying Pig. I really liked the book and now Jack has offered a PDF version of the book free of charge to Slacker Manager Readers.
It doesn’t get any better than this.
Here is a short quotation from page 15 to whet your appetite for this great bargain:

If you accept the premise that as a manager you don’t get paid for what you do, you get paid for what your …read more

Stuck in a Photocopy Jam
 
by David Zinger
What will you do? Read the following 50 word case study involving sex in the office and determine what you would do if you were the manager in this situation.
Rajeesh Setty advocated writing 50-word mini sagas. I believe mini sagas offer an effective and fast format for case vignette discussions. I look forward to your comments about this case method or your specific comment on the case below.
Read the mini saga below, imagine you are Alex, and in the comment section offer what you would do in this situation.
Alex, manages 16 people. He worked late Thursday night to complete …read more

Strength impoverishment in our workplaces.
 
by David Zinger
Assessing the poverty of strengths in the workplace. Here are the results from my latest management strength survey.

55% of people have had no strength training
18% of participants spent less than 1/5 of their day using their strengths
only 9% of participants spent over 4/5ths of their day using their strengths.
28% of respondents report being able to spend beyond 60% of their time using their strengths.
only 3 out of 10 managers are working from their strengths a majority of the time.

Actual strengths. The list of their greatest strength at work was somewhat vague. Communication, organization, problem solving, and knowledge …read more

What if you could grant 3 wishes…
 
by David Zinger

Click here or on the wishbones above and take 2 minutes to be transformed into a management Genie. Grant 3 wishes for managers:

The wish you would grant for the people you manage.
The wish you would grant for the organization.
The wish you would grant for yourself.

Go ahead Genie, do it now.
I will provide an overview of the wishes granted in 2 weeks.
Photo Credit: Wishbones by Comparison by http://flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/305400890/