Tag Archives: Activities and Events

If you have a moment..

RedBalloon for Corporate is quite pleased to be nominated for the Human Capital Top 5 Teambuilding Organisation or Incentive provider award - but apparently to take the nomination to the next stage - people need to vote for us... If you are a client, know what we do - or just want to put in [...]
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Something to do on a Monday

Today was my first day back in the office after school holidays... I arrived early, to start sorting through the mail, and messages before the meeting rhythm started. Quite a few of my colleagues were gathering together excitedly - eight of the team were going Sky Diving - including Jemma GM. One of the delegates [...]
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Bucket List review time

Some years ago I wrote my first dream catcher list (bucket list) – A place to note all the things I wanted to do, be or even have during my life time. (Each RedBallooner is encouraged to share their dream catcher list with us too). Some of my dreams are more attainable than others (like [...]
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The 10 point Customer Excellence Checklist

I’ve been reading the book ‘Delivering Happiness’ by Tony Hsieh CEO of Zappos.com. There are a significant number of similarities between RedBalloon and Zappos. As CEOs we both wanted to create a place where we too wanted to work. We both believe in experiences over stuff, we both believe that the key to success of [...]
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Leaving Home.

In the past eight years since founding RedBalloon, we’ve created several businesses along the way and they all have lead to other greater things. One of the businesses that we invented was to solve a particular ‘problem’ that we had at RedBalloon - some 30% of our customers are self purchasers, another words they really [...]
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Employer Worst Gifts ever

Given that Christmas is fast approaching.. most businesses have organized what they are giving their people now, but sometimes I shake my head in disbelief as people share with me how thoughtless or simply dumb some employers are about giving a gift. People have worked harder this year than they have in years – and [...]
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Secret Millionaire Chapter 2

My life as an undercover volunteer Secret Millionaire – Channel Nine 9.30pm 29 Oct 2009 Episode Four: Features Naomi Simson I sit here in my bed in a motel on a GoldCoast highway which seems a million miles from home – I can hear the traffic and my neighbors. It's not so bad, just different [...]
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