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IntroductionHave patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love thequestions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Donot now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not livethem. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question.Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, nd yourself experiencing the answer,some distant day. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young PoetToo often we are in search of an easy answer. We hire experts to tell us what to do.We need to engage the question. Let us sit with the questions, voice our questions,and generate a range of responses rather than a simplistic easy answer to the com-plexity of employee engagementI encourage you to read this wonderful collection of questions offered by

96 members of the employee engagement network.Engage the questions, generate responses, and create greater employeeengagement for the benet of allEmployee Engagement Network Founder/HostDavid Zinger

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Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.~ Neil Postman

If we want to keep learning alive we must reinstall the question into our

performance and learning.

The Employee Engagement Network members were asked to formulatea question about employee engagement. Read the richness of thequestions they composed and begin to formulate your response toleave the question mark alive in your learning.


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When it comes to your company, what are thestories that come to the employees minds?

AbhishekMittal

DeniseBissonnette

For each of us there is always somethingdying to be born - how do we assist oneanother in bringing into the world thatwhich is longing to come into fruition?

Stephen J.Gill

How does employee engagement(commitment, involvement,discretionary effort) contribute toachieving the strategic goals of this

organization?


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RoySaunderson

When was the last time you asked anemployee what engages them to workin your company?

RohitShenoy

How do I measure engagement and theimpact of engagement real time?

DeriLatimer

What is THE moment ofengagement for you?


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Why do some organisations work so hard toengage at people when they should be trying toengage with them?

DontCompromise

What have you done today to help orconnect with a colleague?

JenniferFloyd

JohnHallonquist

As a leader, are you ready to begin therelentless pursuit of employee engagement?


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Garba How close are we to consensus about conceptualclarity on the employee engagement construct?

David L.Cowen

How are you addressing employees self-worth inyour employee engagement process?

MarcMichaelson

Is engagement a two-way street andhow do senior leaders stay engagedwith their direct reports?


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Dr. ScottSimmerman

What are the Square Wheels in yourorganization - the systems and processesand procedures that do not work smoothly?

What is something that you could continuouslychoose to do differently to foster employeeengagement?

Dr. ScottSimmerman

PeggyFoster

When we hire new employees, howcan our onboarding process maintainthe enthusiasm they have when they

accept a position?


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Dr. MaynardBrusman

How can your personal energycollaborating with others at workreward you and them with wealth,

innovation and fulllment?

AllenDenette

What parts of your organization think they arebeing treated unfairly?

What are you doing each day to model enthusiasticemployee engagement for your team?

Hamguin


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KarlEdwards

What disincentives in taking initiative woulda visitor observe in our company?

RosaOcheltree What does engagement mean to your team?

PaulMarciano

Why do companies tolerate supervisorswho fail to engage employees?


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TimOlson

SunilBudhiraja

Offer a lunch and learning seminar entitledWhos Controlling Your Life? and get yourmanagers permission before attending.

If you enjoy the facilities of the organization, whyare you not willing to recommend the organizationas an employer to others?

How do bosses justify that theyare engaged?

VijeyNRR


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RichardLambert

KellyKetelboeter

Heres a question for line managers toask themselves - What are you doingeach day to make your staff (or yourteam) want to put in some extra effort

for you ?

What are the behaviors a leader might see orhear that show an employee is in fact engaged?

Why do we believe that employeesatisfaction is so closely linked toemployee engagement?

TimHoulihan


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Jose M.Ravents

Do you really respect your people: How oftendo you listen to them, talk with them aboutthe work they do, and how they do it?

CindyVentrice

What opportunities can I provide that offergrowth and development for my people?

JeanDouglas

What is so difcult about saying thankyou or great job to employees?


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BevMate

Is employee happiness the same asemployee engagement?

AdrianAshton

Whats the most common reason cited bymanagement/directors for stalling employeeengagement initiatives, and how have youovercome them?

SusanneJacobs

Do you know, and can you measure howyour employee engagement directlycorrelates and impacts on your bottom

line and to your organisational success?


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Saied A.Ashshowwaf

How much do we know about the process oforganizational engagement and to what extentare organizations aware of this concept?

Sybil F.Stershic

Beyond knowing how many employees work inthe company, do top managers know how manyemployees are actually contributing to the com-panys success? And what can they do to ensurethe second number equals the rst number?

MelKleiman

If our on boarding program issussessfull, what does successlook like?


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LeslieAllan

What case studies are there that demonstratethe cost benet of spending resources on tryingto lift employee engagement?

JonHarvey

How much money has your company spent onexternal consultants talking with the staff,customers and suppliers? Sorry - how much?

DavidMarklew What is discretionary effort?


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MinterDial

How do you reconcile goals & objective settingfor the individual with goals & objectives thatenable cross-divisional, cross-functional projectwork with different bosses, etc?

SaurabhGahrotra

For the manager: Does everyone inmy team have the opportunity tomaximize their individual talent?

How do you know when youreengaged?

NicolaMurphy


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GinaAbudi

How are you working to be sure everyoneis engaged and not just those who areeasily engaged?

MikeKing

What is one dream you have that when realized,will positively impact this workplace and howcan others (including me) help you achieve it?

RobertManolson

Is your company strategically positioningitself as a business leader in EmployeeEngagement by responding to the needsof your staff with regularly scheduled

team building workshops and retreats?


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RichardMelrose

How can we measure individual managers on theiremployee engagement performance (progress),without compromising the condentiality(anonymity and hence frankness) of surveyresponses?

SandiKrige

As an employee how can I rate my levelof engagement?

DeannaCarrera

How can we get our managers tobe more focused on engaging theirdirect reports?


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JudyMcLeish

Are you a role model - do you live up tothe employer-employee contract?

ZaneSafrit

Do you realize your brand reects the employeesengagement in creating it?

IanBuckingham

Cast your mind back to a time when youwere reporting to the best manageryou ever worked for - how would youdescribe the personal quality that

you most admired about them?


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SteveQuinn

Assuming that employee engagement can bequantied, how do you recognize and rewardengagement other than monetarily?

AbhishekMittal

Question for a leader: What might be the top 3unanswered questions in the minds of yourpeople?

DaveNanderam

Isnt employee engagement just acollective term for referencing outcomesof prior research in job involvement, jobsatisfaction, psychological empowerment

and employee commitment?


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Adam P.Cohen

How can you engage your employees indeveloping, and delivering on, yourorganizations dreams for success?

ArtBingham Who is responsible for employee engagement?

ShwetaMohanty

How do we measure the impactand effectiveness of engagementinitiatives?


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ShwetaMohanty

How do we turn a disengaged manager oremployee into an engaged manager oremployee?

PeterLanc

What shadow do you cast that gives positiveenergy to those around you?

AdrianBashford

Do you get to do what you dobest every day?


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AdrianBashford

Do those around you understand what workyou most like to do?

ZaneSafrit

Do you know how little it costs to inspire,motivate and engage me?

MonicaDiaz

Do you know what makes you feelengaged and can you create that foryourself and other like-minded people?


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AbhishekMittal

What can you do to make your top performersnot feel like leaving your company?

AbhishekMittal

If you are really serious, how would you provethat your employee engagement is more thanlip service?

DavidBowles

Do you as a manager apply the GoldenRule to your people: treating them kind-ly, fairly, compassionately and thought-fully as you would like to be treated?


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KarenSchmidt

Is everyone engage-able?

RoySaunderson

How can we expect recognition andrespect ourselves if we are not willingto respect and recognize others?

What things do people in your work group dothat make you feel connected to your company?

TimHoulihan


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RobertMorris

What are the dominant characteristicsof someone others are eager to becomeactively and productively engagedwith in the workplace?

BetsyKennally

Whats the one thing youd like to changethat would make the biggest difference inyour work right now?

BernieDonkerbrook

Where do emotions t in beingengaged at work?


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JitkaHolt

What makes you look forward to going to workwhen you get up in the morning?

YuvarajahWhy is spiritual intelligence importantfor employee engagement at theworkplace?

PaulMassie

Can such tools as Myers Briggs personality typeshelp make engagement activities more effective

by giving insights into how different employeegroups prefer to receive and process information?


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GloriaSauve

As an employee, I would like to know howmanagers expect us to be engaged in our workwhen were seeing lay-offs and shut downseverywhere? Its hard to be positive, givenour current economic climate.

VanessaGibb

What would you do rst if you were given achance to take over your bosss job?

FraserMarlow

What can you do personally toimprove your own engagement?


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PeopleMetrics

What can you do to make youremployees happier?

LydiaWoodroff

Do you know how each member of your teamlikes to be managed, and what switches themon at work - and do you do everything in yourpower to make these things happen?

Are certain people more inclined towardengagement in general due to personalitycharacteristics and do such individualdifferences effect what types of engage-

ment interventions will be effective?

GordonSchmidt


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Michelle M. Smith

What were you doing when youfelt completely engaged?

JakeHillman

As a leader, what has be successful for youto effectively engage your employees?

JonathanRatner

Is engaging enough or do we need toengage with passion to really makea difference?


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AngeliquePhilipsen

What mark would you give your organization?Why is/isnt it a 10 out of 10?

RayMcGrath

Do you say good morning to your workcolleagues when you get in?

LisaSibley

How well are you listening?


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Dr. Maynard

BrusmanHow can leaders more effectively engageemployees by tapping into their trulymeaningful intrinsic motivation?

DaveNanderam

Have you ever asked your direct report(s)to describe their engagement drivers?

GaneshRamakrishnan

What is the one thing about thiscompany that has kept all theselong-timers here?


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KeithOwen

If engagement is an outcome,what are its precursors?

GaneshRamakrishnan

What are the sticky factors in this workplaceother than salary or current job role?

GaneshRamakrishnan

Do we, as HR, feel truly engaged inthe activities that we do to sustainemployee engagement?


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RobertMorris

How to maximize the positive engagement ofeveryone involved in change initiatives?

GinaAbudi

How are you being creative in engagingyour employees?

RickCronen

What are you doing to take care ofyour own attitude of engagement?


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VijeyNRR Is engagement much beyond passion?

VijeyNRRIs the bottom up approach the bestfor engagement?

VijeyNRRWhat keeps engaged employeesmotivated?


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JakeHillman

How do you effectively engage the people that areimportant to your organizations success but do notactually interact with your customers, such as backofce staff?

Saied A.Ashshowwaf

What research methods can be applied togenerate more in depth understanding ofthe engagement process?

TimWright

Manager to employee: When you hearemployee engagement what do youthink, feel, and what images cometo your mind?


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AleksanderJakobson

What is the most frequent and rarestmotivator to employee engagement?

BethSmith

Will we have succeeded, when in 10 or 20 years, or-ganizations no longer do employee engagement,instead it has become part of the culture, an unques-tioned, unconscious assumption that has led to highlycollaborative, self-generating organizational forms?

WendyWoods

How can you create a culture wherelaughter and fun supports hard workand productivity?


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ChristineDunn

What would you need to see from management,so you would know that they were as engaged asthey want you to be?

RobinHickman

How do you help your manager engage you?

MasitaMisdi

How can lifelong learning contributeto the employee engagement in theworkplace?


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MaggieChicoine

What is so obvious that it is invisible?

PeterLanc

What gives you energy and what wouldit take for you and others around you togenerate that energy?

DavidBowles

Would you recommend (organizationname) as a place to work to people youknow or meet?


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AdrianBashford What is in it for me?

Mark P.Friedman

In the age of free agency, when our besttalent can leave at any time, why shouldwe worry about engagement rather than

building employment models around

high churn?

AnjaSchuetz

What do you need from me in orderto be more engaged?


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NickKellet

Whats your best curious question toengage employees?

Rashid M.Abbasi

What is the relationship betweenengagement and innovation?

SunilBudhiraja

Five of your employees are going outwith their families. What would theytalk about most of the time?


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ScottMcArthur

What are the key levers that can be used to closethe gap between business and human values?

Leonvan Wouwe

What do you see to be the predictable future fora) yourself b) this organisation c) yourself insidethis organisation?

DavidZinger

What is the most important questionyou need to ask of yourself to enhanceyour engagement and to fully connectwith engaging others at work?


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AuthorsThe important thing is not to stop questioning.Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

~ Albert Einstein


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Diaz, MonicaDonkerbrook, BernieDont CompromiseDouglas, JeanDunn, ChristineEdwards, KarlFloyd, JenniferFoster, PeggyFriedman, Mark P.Gahrotra, SaurabhGarba

Gibb, VanessaGill, Stephen J.Hallonquist, JohnHamguinHarvey, JonHickman, RobinHillman, JakeHolt, Jitka

Abbasi, Rashid M.Abudi, GinaAllan, LeslieAshshowwaf, Saied A.Ashton, AdrianBashford, AdrianBingham, ArtBissonnette, DeniseBowles, DavidBrusman, Dr. MaynardBuckingham, IanBudhiraja, SunilCarrera, DeannaChicoine, MaggieCohen, Adam P.Cowen, David L.Cronen, RickDenette, AllenDial, Minter

Houlihan, TimJacobs, SusanneJakobson, AleksanderKellet, NickKennally, BetsyKetelboeter, KellyKing, MikeKleiman, MelKrige, SandiLambert, RichardLanc, PeterLatimer, DeriManolson, RobertMarciano, PaulMarklew, DavidMarlow, FraserMassie, PaulMate, BevMcArthur, Scott

AuthorsThe important thing is not to stop questioning.Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

~ Albert Einstein


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People MetricsPhilipsen, AngeliqueQuinn, SteveRamakrishnan, GaneshRatner, JonathanRavents, Jose M.Safrit, ZaneSaunderson, RoySauve, GloriaSchmidt, GordonSchmidt, KarenSchuetz, AnjaShenoy, Rohit

McGrath, RayMcLeish, JudyMelrose, RichardMichaelson, MarcMisdi, MasitaMittal, AbhishekMohanty, ShwetaMorris, RobertMurphy, NicolaNanderam, DaveOcheltree, RosaOlson, TimOwen, Keith

Sibley, LisaSimmerman, Dr. ScottSmith, BethSmith, Michelle M.Stershic, Sybil F.van Wouwe, LeonVentrice, CindyVijeyNRRWoodroff, LydiaWoods, WendyWright, TimYuvarajahZinger, David


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David Zinger, M.Ed., is a global expert on employee engagementwho founded the Employee Engagement Network.www.davidzinger.com


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What is the future of employee engagement?The future is now as we move beyond surveys and simplistic techniques to integrating

employee engagement into all facets of the organizations approach to serving customersand creating results. To sustain engagement initiatives, employees must experiencethe rich benets of engagement for themselves.

What does David Zinger offer?Powerful result-focused and person-centered speaking, education, coaching, andconsulting to meet the needs of each client. Organizations appreciate his

leading-edge insights and approaches, spoken in the language of meaning,community, humor, story, and results.

How do I get in touch with David Zinger?Contact him today at [email protected] or phone (204) 254-2130.
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