Hiring employees is a dating game The first days and weeks is a nervous time for both employer and employee. At The Big Red Group, we have a rigorous recruitment process to ensure our newest members are a great cultural fit for us and share our values. However, once...
Sarah Harris from Studio 10 visits The BRG At The Big Red Group (BRG) we encourage employee engagement in many ways, however one of those ways is through hosting Lunch n Learns. These are lunchtime talks where we invite people that we respect into our workplace,...
Is your workplace thriving? It is no surprise that when your people thrive, so too does your business. The common theme underpinning thriving businesses is the clear alignment between vision, values and purpose. In successful companies, people know exactly what they...
Do you know anyone who needs a job? As season three of Shark Tank inches closer to a screen near you, it is worth reflecting on the ‘story’ of each Shark. I suggest that one of the reasons we were chosen was our ability to empathise greatly with those pitching, as we...
Employer of Choice CHOICE has been advising consumers since last century about the efficacy of the broadest range of products. As a child, my father would receive his monthly subscription to the magazine – each month opening it with glee and reading (often out loud)...
Coworking Space Sydney I have just been appointed ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’ at Gravity co-working space in Sydney – which is a very new experience for me. Since leaving the daily operations of RedBalloon some three years ago I have been very busy in the start-up...
Last week was all about resilience, focus and a few laughs – there were plenty of lessons. Monday was all about strategy and planning for Redii.com Tuesday was to be a continuation of the ‘design thinking project’ and reviewing numbers… and...
Habits for happiness Habits for long term happiness, Yes please! I suspect that this is the goal for many of us. Over a ‘lunch n learn’ session with the Redii team, we re-watched Shawn Achor’s TEDx talk, about habits for happiness, and it reminded us...
