One of my colleagues from our customer experience team has finished his ‘Gap’ year with us and is returning to the UK… he left by sharing this ‘rap’ with the team. What fabulous feedback on RedBalloon as a great place to work….
Tag Archives: Recognition and Acknowledgement
Have Faith
I have trawled through online articles featuring best employers and companies with high engagement scores (I’m curious as to what others do of course) and I can’t help but notice the negative comments some attract along the lines of “it’s easy for you” from people all over the world. The truth is any organisation no matter the number of people or the size of the budget can be a great place to work if they accept that what they need…
Thoughts from a RedBalloon veteran
On Friday it was time to farewell an original RedBallooner – Sarah was with us in the very early days – and has seen the business grow from 9 people to its present 50. She has caught the entrepreneurial bug and started her own show a named ‘Lady Bug’ as a fully fledged interior designer. As I listened to Sarah’s farewell words, I felt so very very fortunate, knowing that every person at RedBalloon is what makes our culture. We…
A new listening post
I’m sure it is not just my imagination – but I seem to have LinkedIn messages coming to me daily. I joined years ago and sort of let it sit there. Now I find that I am catching up with colleagues from a very distant past – and joining interesting discussion on topics such as employer branding to corporate gifting. I have connected my twitter account and this blog so that it automatically feeds what I’m talking about into LinkedIn…
A big end of financial year blunder
Many businesses are busily planning for the new financial year. We are no different. We have our heads down, reviewing our performance, gathering data and imagining what next year will be like. And the team of course is who we are counting on to deliver the plan. (Business is a people sport after all.) As an employer of choice our people plan is a critical part to the success of RedBalloon. I urge business leaders to make sure that they…
Super Saver….
My colleague Sarah joined RedBalloon on April Fools Day in 2004 – she is fast approaching her five year anniversary. With any special occasion it gives us a moment to reflect. I’m sure Sarah could share much better than I about the changes she has experienced at RedBalloon…and the ones she has championed. She was the RedBallooner who coined the name ‘Pleasure Relations’ for instance. One thing that has not changed at RedBalloon is our values and how we celebrate…
Heroes of Humanity
I was coming back from holidays in late January – sitting on an aircraft from Hong Kong to Sydney and the flight attendant handed me an A4 envelope. As I opened the package – my son asked me ‘Do you know everyone on the planet?’ – ‘Not quite’ said I. I had been asked to be a panelist for the eXcel ‘Peoples Choice’ awards at Qantas. The package delivered was a dossier of the final citations ie the letters from…
Recognition Every Day… (RED)
At RedBalloon we talk about recognition all the time, not only what we do at work, but what we are learning from our clients. Matt the RedBalloon head of corporate has put 52 recognition ideas into a handy little business card size piece. It is really quite fun – filled with great suggestions of how easy it is to make people feel great at work. I’m in Auckland visiting clients today with our Kiwi Manager, Laurel, and I met one…
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 engagement score. The reality is we tried a lot of things – some worked some did not. We have made mistakes on this journey for…
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...
