Presenting to 150 fifteen year old girls is probably one of the tougher gigs that I have had. Not helped by the fact that my daughter said just before I left home… ‘Don’t be embarrassing – and they really aren’t interested in all … I looked at these young women and thought what would I have liked to have known all those years ago? I showed them a photo of my girlfriends and I at the same age. This started…
We’ve finished the report from our recent survey and we heard from 3,053 employees on how well their managers and companies perform when it comes to recognizing and rewarding them, and what the impacts are. We also uncover the secret to what employees really want. It might be worth downloading the full report Below are some of the key findings… But the biggest outcome I got from reading the results – is we are not finished yet. There is so…
Probably one of the questions that I get more than ever is ‘How?’ How did you come up with the idea? How do you do it? How do you stay passionate? The question that drives me though is ‘Why?’ It is the why I do what I do which makes me bound out of bed every day (even in the ninth year). I was interviewed recently for by Andrew Warner from Mixergy who interviews entrepreneurs from all over the planet…
I participated on a business owners panel last night for the PricewaterhouseCooper Private Clients area. Russel Howcroft asked each of the panelists questions about what we’d learned and how we viewed the economy. Each of us reinforced the importance the people around us. To have a successful brand it is determined by our people moment by moment. All of the panelists were retailers – and each of us knows that our people are our brand. There was some concern about…
I was just listening to an interview with Aubrey Daniels who was commenting on Daniel Pinks TED presentation He says that human nature has not changed for 1000s of years. A few weeks ago we received the survey results back. More than 3000 people gave us feedback on the current state of Reward and Recognition in businesses in Australia and New Zealand. The basic premise – ‘Managers are driving employees away’. 70% of an employees engagement is determined by their…
Imagine running a business based on fun - that's what I decided to try when I left a very serious corporate career in marketing to set up RedBalloon...
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Defining Employee Engagement
It all depends on how you view the world… at least we know where getting somewhere when the conversation becomes mainstream. Love it.