Monthly Archives: September 2008

10 things bosses hate

By naomisimson | Published: September 23, 2008
One of my favorite topics is employee engagement. I have worked for some really great bosses - I have also worked for some terrible one's in my 15 years of corporate life before I started my own show. So I have been both a boss and an employee - I have seen both sides of [...]
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Charmed I’m sure…

By naomisimson | Published: September 18, 2008
I attended the Smart Company awards last week. I always find it interesting with a room full of people who know almost no one how people interact. Some people stay as hidden as possible in the back of the room, but this was a room of entrepreneurs.... and we are by nature 'sales people'. Always [...]
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Fun in work

By naomisimson | Published: September 9, 2008
They call it work because it is just that 'work'. However work is different now. There is such a melding between the work week and leisure time, that employers must re examine how an employee 'experiences' work. If the blackberry is never off, if people are connected 24/7 to email or online – then work [...]
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Zappo’s story on employee engagement and Twitter

By naomisimson | Published: September 4, 2008
A blog I wrote earlier this week was all about what you do in private, may end up in the public domain so you may as well encourage conversation as try to control them. Well I came across this very interesting – if not challenging example of an organization 'showing their stuff' in public. Zappos.com [...]
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Postive outlook delivers success.

By naomisimson | Published: September 4, 2008
I read somewhere recently that positive people are far more likely to be successful. I wish I could remember the details because it was fascinating. A study was done by looking at the authenticity of the smile in school photo's - apparently there is a muscle in every persons face that just cannot lie. If [...]
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Three elements of why business must be transparent.

By naomisimson | Published: September 2, 2008
The workplace is different now, we are surrounded by media – people no longer trust advertising as a reliable source of information. This is a new age of transparency because:  1. 'Generation Y' have grown up in a media world where people who choose a public life have no privacy. Who Magazine, New Weekly, even [...]
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