About deltatre Media

deltatre media has experienced rapid growth since its founding in 2001. The skyrocketing demand for their products and services has caused staff size to increase rapidly. While there have been some bumps on their road to becoming an industry leader, their leader, Managing Director Paul Bristow, has made a conscious effort to maintain the small-business, family like feel and workplace benefits despite the growing head count. From an inclusionary dialogue process to an open door policy and an open plan office space, theirmanaging director, Paul Bristow, embodies their core value of openness and empowers all employees to share their voice, ideas and concerns. Additionally, while growth in staff size has put pressure on some of their older traditions, Mr. Bristow nevertheless ardently adheres to marking personal and professional milestones in each team member’s life with rewards and benefits.

Throughout the year delatre hold a number of company-wide and team specific relationship building events to maintain a high employee morale, strengthen the intra-company relationships and say thanks for all the hard work their dedicated staff put forth. deltatre financially supports a 5-a-side football team that plays weekly throughout the year. Moreover, they sponsor an industry-wide philanthropic football tournament as well as theme days like Football Shirt Friday in order to raise money for charity and give back to the community. On a team level, they support departmental team building sessions like the Go-Kart outing their video team recently organised to relieve tensions during the lead up to the launch of an important project. However, the highpoints of their team building activities are unquestionably their two company wide workshops. In the summer, delatre take to the outdoors and stage a light-hearted physical activity that is fun and inclusive. Earlier this year they recreated the retro hit TV show “It’s a Knock-Out” complete with absurd games and large costumes. In the winter, they stage a glitzy Christmas party for all full and part-time employees and freelancers as well as their partners. Last year’s Christmas festivities took on a masquerade theme and had masked guests enjoy a three course meal and trying their luck at the casino games.

Placing openness as one of delatre's 4 core values truly helps to encourage and facilitate open discussion and feedback at deltatre. They use the appraisal process to create the space for giving feedback to employees and the opportunity for them to do the same with their line managers in a safe environment. Their monthly functional board meetings allow staff to present the case for new ideas. However, their bi-annual workshops are truly a unique feature because it provides an opportunity for everyone in the company to share new ideas and receive feedback from the larger cross-departmental team.