employee engagement – Page 6 – The Consulting Artist

Positively Psyched

Happy Monday y’all. Seeing as how today is not many folks fave day of the week I thought I’d kick things off on some positive notes to help get you in your stride.

MeetMeMe

I recently had a great customer experience courtesy of MeetMeMe. I found out about these unusual business cards after seeing a post on Facebook by Dawn Hrdlica Burke about them. I went to order a pack and they are US shipment only. I dropped them a nice note to say how cool I thought their product was and they kindly agreed to ship me some. Sweeeeeeet!

We’re going one step further and offering five sets of cards as give aways over at our Facebook page. All you have to do is head over there, give us a like and then get ready to be quick off the mark around 2pm on Thursday 19th July to nab yourself a pack of your own MeetMeMe trading cards.

Sukh Pabial

Sukh is on an adventure. A step on that adventurous journey is his Positive Psychology in Application event in London on Friday August 17th. You can find out more about the event here and I’m pleased to let you know that we have two tickets to give away. All you have to do is add a comment to this post asking for a ticket and if you are the first or second person to do so – bingo! I’ll then put you in touch with Sukh and you can take it from there.

John Junson

John is the network cartoonist and designer over at David Zinger’s Employee Engagement Network. He created the design and colours for the network. He created our unique symbol/brand. He designed all the free e-books. He has been involved in this work before it went online over four years ago. His birthday is July 21 and we want to see if we can have the community at 5000 members for his birthday.

Please help. If you have not joined, join today. I’ve been a member for a few years and enjoyed lots of useful learning and sharing, and membership is free.

To join the network, click here.

So there you have it – three positives to kick off your week. Happy Monday!

Today At Work…

Today at Work is a series of cartoons drawn by artist and photographer John Junson. John is also a member of David Zinger’s Employee Engagement Network (EEN). The EEN has grown strongly since its inception and is rapidly heading towards its 5000th member. Kudos to David, John and many others who help the network to grow. I forget when I joined but the network has long been a source of learning, sharing and motivation for me. If engagement interests you, I encourage you to pop over and take a look.

Back to the cartoons…

A while back on logging into the EEN I saw this:

To say I was chuffed is an understatement 🙂 And since then I’ve had two further very pleasant surprises:

I’m very grateful to John for thinking of me and including me in his body of work, and for kindly allowing me to reproduce these cartoons here. I’m going to commission John to develop a series of cartoons, with what I hope will be an interesting twist…watch this space.

Why Employee Engagement Surveys Suck

Last year I was asked to talk to the board of a small company (employing approx 250 people all under one roof) about employee engagement. Turns out they were interested in starting an employee survey and wanted some thoughts on this. I said ‘give me an hour to put something together’ and came up with this.

Why do employee surveys suck

They decided not to bother with a survey and we did some interesting work together. I guess what I learned from this is that sometimes you just need to go with what you believe. I mean, it would have been easy for me to share these thoughts and finish with ‘but we can avoid all these things and still give you a great survey’. I could have told them what they thought they wanted to hear, and that would have sucked even more.

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