Being a fast growth business and named a best employer for the last five years means that clearly recruitment is at the core of everything we do. As the founding director and the entrepreneur who started RedBalloon and grew it to a significant sized business, the...
A colleague called me from a bus this morning to tell me she’d be unable to make an 8.30am meeting because the “traffic was at a standstill”. The fact she had left her home – a mere 19 kilometers from the office – at 6.30am that morning...
[Posted to LinkedIn a few weeks ago – and it came in as #11 the most read posts on LinkedIn in 2012 – some of the 1000 comments are very amusing. Also exciting that I am now close to 50,000 followers of my blog posts] A few months ago I commented on Sheryl...
Wisdom From Richard Branson Richard Branson has been in town this week… and I was interested to learn his insights into the importance he places on the people working for the Virgin brands. This was the first question asked at the Business Chicks breakfast on Monday:...
How To Deal With Bad Apples In the last few posts, I have been talking about what it takes to be a Great Place to Work. It’s all about trust and purpose. One of the questions I had recently at a speaking engagement is very relevant ‘What if you have a rotten apple...
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. It is much harder to be productive, let alone enjoy what we do if we...
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...
It might sound basic but one of the key questions I get asked is how do we get people to have fun and be extremely productive at work. What keeps the workplace interesting, people motivated and most importantly make it a fun place to be? Sometimes it is the simplest...
