Overview
From a very serious corporate career in marketing to creating a business based on fun RedBalloon, this is my journey. In this blog I share what it takes to be an entrepreneur and what I have learned - warts and all. I am also the author of I want what she is having which chronicles the first five years of building of a fast growing business.
Very proud to be awarded National Telstra Business Womens Award for 2008 in the Nokia Innovation Catogory
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Tag Archives: Recognition and Acknowledgement
What does disengagement look like
Thank you to Bruce Morton of Talent2 for this very illustrative image of disengagement. Loved it. Gallup tells us that it takes six engaged employees to fix up the mess made by disengaged staff. In some instances it is clearly more.
Zip up your purpose
RedBalloon was acknowledged by Hewitt as one of only five employers to be accredited best places to work in 2009 - I have had interesting discussions with the people from Hewitt. They have shared much of the research outcomes with us. I like hearing about the theory about why we have achieved such a high [...]
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Better out than in.
I was chatting with a friend this morning who said that he had three of his team resign in the last week. He asked ‘That’s not good is it?’
On the surface we look at the cost of replacing them and all the history and experience that they depart with, and of course we say - [...]
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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 [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned Also tagged Business Leadership, Employee Engagement, Fun at work, Managers at work, Rewards and Incentives 3 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Input Please Also tagged Activities and Events, Corporate Gifts, Employee Engagement, Fun at work 3 Comments
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.
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 [...]
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Recognition Every Day… (RED)