Archive for the ‘HR’ Category

Tuesday and Wednesday this week were like a business improvement bootcamp! Adam and I went along to another great Verne Harnish Rockefeller Habits event put on by The Growth Faculty on Tuesday and sat next to Derek Hodge, a TEC (The Executive Connection) Group Chair. With a full day of Verne under our belts and sharing [...]

Liz Wiseman is one of our favourite authors and the principles from her bestselling book Multipliers: How The Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter have been very popular with our team at Bluewire. Liz was in Sydney recently and I had the chance to ask her a question that had been on my mind for while.  “Do [...]

Among your many talents (development, shopping, hula hooping to name a few) you’re also responsible for writing a majority of resource manuals for clients and internal process guidelines for Bluewire Media staff. One might say that you are our unofficial technical writer… Where do you begin when first writing a reference manual? As with any [...]

How did you get into web development? When I was a young teenager at the turn of the century, I fiddled around with building small web pages, in so far as to create fan sites for whatever computer games I was playing at the time. What programs do you rely on most heavily? My workflow [...]

Our quarterly theme at the moment is “Expertise” so to tick of one of my goals for the quarter I sat down with Andrew McFarlane, our Digital Strategist, to learn a bit about his job and his area of expertise. First of all, what does ‘digital strategy’ mean? It’s a very loose term that gets [...]

Employee engagement expert, James Adonis first appeared on my radar several years ago when a friend forwarded his newsletter to me.  James’ writing style and management style immediately resonated with me so I signed up. Since then, I have recommended his newsletter to many peers and have also featured it as a best practice case study when I [...]

There are always great candidates applying for jobs at Bluewire Media and we’re often asked, “how do you decide who the best ones are?” Well we’ve developed a recruitment process that is designed to appeal to the type of people who will thrive in a job at Bluewire Media. And what do we recommend to our [...]

At the start of this year I had 2 courses left to complete my university degree at QUT. I chose to enroll in the Transitions Program to gain my final credit through work experience. I thought it would be a good chance to gain some industry experience and contacts and have a lecture free semester. [...]

HR is a hot topic at Bluewire Media at the moment! We’ve chosen it as our theme for the quarter and everyone has committed to their own goals to contribute to improving this area of our business and making sure we’re having fun at the same time! Yesterday, Adam, Angela and I went along to [...]