What do local surf breaks and Red Door Interactive have in common? Besides the fact that they are both places where RDI peeps can be found hanging out, they also share other commonalities. Red Door’s Core values, which are inspire, share, evolve, exceed and remain 100% jerk free are often found on the shores of our local beaches. How many times have you seen someone sharing their knowledge and teaching someone to surf, or more personally have you seen someone hanging ten and been inspired to learn yourself? Ultimately local surf breaks such as Swami’s, Windansea, Pipes and Blacks offer the community a place to gather and be motivated by their surroundings. Naming our conference rooms after such places is fitting because RDI prides itself on providing employees with an environment to be inspired and share ideas. So what will our calendars say when we book a meeting in our large conference room? Windansea, Pipes or Blacks? Help us decide!

Leave a comment with your choice, or vote using the surveys on Facebook or Twitter.

Which local surf break should the main conference room be named after?

1. Windansea
2. Pipes
3. Blacks

Ron Hadler is Red Door Interactive’s Technology Supervisor. His role at Red Door includes managing a team of Web Developers and ensuring technical development runs smoothly. During the last few months, Ron has proved to be a huge asset to the Garden Fresh project team. He successfully launched the new Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes Website including a new and improved gift card shopping cart. Ron devoted many late nights and weekends to guarantee the launch would be seamless. Ron’s teammates have recognized his dedication to this project and continuously praise him for a job well done.

Ron represents our Core Values by remaining 100% jerk free and inspiring others on his team. He’s been referred to as a rockstar, and if you see the new Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes Website, I am sure you will agree.

What is Mad Props?

Mad Props is a peer recognition program at Red Door where employees can nominate a fellow co-worker who represents one or more of Red Door’s Core Values. The employee with the most nominations each quarter is awarded an extra paid day off for his or her hard work.

Find out more about Mad Props.

Lindsay is a Senior Project Manager at Red Door Interactive. During the last few months, she has received well-deserved props for leading the Cricket Communications Website redesign project team. Lindsay brought the team of strategists, creatives, and developers together with daily collaborative meetings to keep the team on track. And by introducing agile development methodology to the process, it lead to increased flexibility and communication throughout the entire project.

Lindsay represents Red Door’s Core Values by showing passion and pride in the work of the team. She’s very encouraging and supportive which keeps the team focused with the end goal in mind. Lindsay’s passion shows in the new Cricket Website, which launched in November—just in time for holiday shopping.

What is Mad Props?

Mad Props is a peer recognition program at Red Door where employees can nominate a fellow co-worker who represents one or more of Red Door’s Core Values. The employee with the most nominations each quarter is awarded an extra paid day off for his or her hard work.

Find out more about Mad Props

Lindsay is a Senior Project Manager at Red Door Interactive. During the last few months, she has received well-deserved props for leading the Cricket Communications Website redesign project team. Lindsay brought the team of strategists, creatives, and developers together with daily collaborative meetings to keep the team on track. And by introducing agile development methodology to the process, it lead to increased flexibility and communication throughout the entire project.

Lindsay represents Red Door’s Core Values by showing passion and pride in the work of the team. She’s very encouraging and supportive which keeps the team focused with the end goal in mind. Lindsay’s passion shows in the new Cricket Website, which launched in November—just in time for holiday shopping.

What is Mad Props?

Mad Props is a peer recognition program at Red Door where employees can nominate a fellow co-worker who represents one or more of Red Door’s Core Values. The employee with the most nominations each quarter is awarded an extra paid day off for his or her hard work.

Find out more about Mad Props

“Mad Props” was created and implemented by Red Door’s “Morale and Culture Committee” back in 2006. It lives on the home page of our intranet and gives employees the opportunity to nominate their peers whom they feel embody the company’s core values. A nomination lives on the home page for 2 weeks and includes his or her picture, description of what was done to receive the nomination, and how it relates to our core values.

In addition to individual nominations, the employee who has accumulated the most nods each quarter gets an extra day of PTO (Paid Time Off) to use whenever they like! We announce the winner at the end of the quarter in a public fashion by ringing our celebratory bell (definitely gets people’s attention) in the office and congratulating that individual.

With that being said…..we would like to congratulate Kim Weinstein for being the most nominated employee of the quarter!!!

Kim is Red Door’s Online Acquisition Coordinator and has been with the company since last November. Some of Kim’s “Mad Props” include preparing last minute presentations, demonstrating expertise in PPC campaigns, and providing excellent customer service. She consistently demonstrates many of the Red Door core values such as “Goal-oriented Multi-disciplinary Collaboration” and “Treating customers like they’re at The Ritz.”

We look forward to sharing more of these announcements to showcase the hard work and dedication behind the team at Red Door Interactive.

I came across this interview with the CEO of Zappos.com I felt inclined to share.

Yes, the title of the post is what drew me to the subject, but it’s actually not the most interesting part. Later in the interview the CEO shares a prime example of treating customers like they are at “The Ritz” and how it spread into a social media success story. His story is about a woman who ordered shoes for her terminally ill mother and needed to return some, but considering the situation was unable to bring the shoes to UPS. After Zappos got wind of this woman’s circumstances they not only sent the UPS truck to her to fetch the shoes, but sent her flowers for her mother the next day. Apparently, this women wrote a blog about how thrilled she was and the blog went viral. Zappos motivation for this kind gesture was not to gain media coverage or a great review, they were simply demonstrating actions based on their core values. Simple stories like this are a reminder that business is about people caring about people. This is what creates successful business relationships and meaning in the work place.

~Jessica Love