Andrew May poses the question ‘What does the perfect week look like?’. Is it an 8 day week, if you had an extra day what would you do with it? Apparently 63% of Australian workers are sleep deprived… (not me since I got my new sleep cycle app for my iphone). It is much harder to be productive, let alone enjoy what we do if we are perpetually tired. Running from one thing to the next, never having time to…
Tag Archives: Managers at work
3 ideas to reduce employee Christmas disconnect
I’m wishing I had a dollar for every time someone told me they had had a tough year this year. ‘So glad to see the back on 2009’. People are saying that they have worked harder than they have in years yet ‘Christmas bonuses are long since a thing of the past, and salary reviews for next year are not yet certain’. So the question I have been putting to business owners and leaders is ‘how are you making your…
Managers are driving employees away
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…
I’m accused of leading a ‘Namby-Pamby’ management revolution
I received the email below yesterday, just after RedBalloon for Corporate hosted a Webinar on Employee Engagement for 250 people. I didn’t receive the email until after the event. But I assume that this person was commenting on the session. Alas the email was not signed and was sent from an unknown email… so I guess the best thing to do is to respond here. Date: 10/27/09 15:50:00 “Naomi Simson, WAKE UP ! People go to work TO BE PAID,…
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...
