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Guest post by David Zinger who writes over at Employee Engagement Zingers

Here are my 10 favorite articles/posts from 2008:

21 Sure Fire Ways Leaders Can Energize Themselves for Work. How do you energize yourself for work? How do you ensure that you can make a full contribution to employee engagement.

300 Free Employee Engagement Ideas and Keys from A to Z. Are you looking for lots of employee engagement ideas? Click here and download this great resource.

Free 10 Page E-Book: Employee Engagement Advice in One Sentence. A nice short e-book where 50 authors from the employee engagement network distill their advice down to one sentence.

What we can Learn About Employee Engagement from Gamers. I think we have much to learn about creating and sustaining engagement from gamers and game designers. Look for more of this in 2009.

10 Principles of Employee Engagement. Read 10 principles of employee engagement.

6 Employee Engagement Mini Rants. What gets to you about employee engagement? Do you have some employee engagement rants?

Zengagement: The Holographic Organization. Employee engagement will be successful when we fuse individuals with organizations.

Improvising Employee Engagement. The field of improvisation has much to teach us about employee engagement especially during these turbulent times that is turning all of us into improvisers.

2 Interviews with Jerry Pounds on Reinforcement and Positive Influence. Jerry Pound helped me to appreciate the contributions and strengths of a behavioral model to employee engagement.

Employee Disengagement Does Not Exist. What if there was no such thing as employee disengagement?

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David Zinger is very active in employee engagement. Visit his site at www.davidzinger.com to learn more or visit the network he hosts on employee engagement at www.employeeengagement.ning.com. David has also caught the twitter bug and you can find his twitter page at: www.twittter.com/davidzinger

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