Vanessa J Turner

A collection of itemsI find interesting

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What is your beverage of choice? I'm partial to a mocha myself :)

(via What Your Coffee Order Says About You | The Daily Muse)

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There are a lot of people out there who are starting to see the effects of Australia getting the squeeze of the global financial climate. Here is a helpful article to make sure you avoid being squeezed by your own finances; especially with Christmas around the corner.

(via Unemployed? What You Need to Know About Your Finances | The Daily Muse)

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What is the boss looking for when picking someone for a promotion?

(via Bosses Tell Us: 11 Things That Will Get You Promoted | The Daily Muse)

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(via 5 Ways To Spot A Bad Boss In An Interview - Forbes)

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With temperatures rising and summer just around the corner here are some great tips for staying productive.

(via 8 Tips For Boosting Productivity At Work This Summer - Susan Adams Getting Ahead - Forbes)

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What do you think of the concept of "Re-recruiting" your own people? Do you think it would create an environment of uncertainty and therefore affect workplace moral? Or do you think that it would give people drive to perform well?

(via 6 Reasons Why You Need to Work at Re-Recruiting Your Own Employees)

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9 Posters That Will Make Your Cubicle Cooler | The Daily Muse

A little bit of Friday Fun :)

(via 9 Posters That Will Make Your Cubicle Cooler | The Daily Muse)

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In my experience people often forget the purpose of their job. Sometimes it's important that HR remind them of the meaning of their role and how that impacts on the rest of the organisation. Do you think people sometimes need reminding of their purpose?

(via What Top Companies Know: The 5 Basic Rules of Happy Employees)

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Yep, people notice... Do you think they left any off the list?

(via 9 Tiny Style Details You Think People Don’t Notice (But They Do) | The Daily Muse)

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(via 3 More Mason Jar Salads You'll Love | The Daily Muse)

I'm liking the look of that Cobb salad!

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It gets my goat when people reply to an email but the message is completely unrelated to the previous email thread. Please just compose a new email with an appropriate. What are your email pet peeves?

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In my experience, number 3 gets bandied about a lot, not just by leaders, but by people at all levels.  Have you had a leader say any of these to you? What did you think?

(via 3 Things a Great Leader Would Never Say | Inc.com)

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I'm loving the in-house barista. What's your favourite idea from the article?

(via 11 | 10 Ways To Make Your Office More Fun | Fast Company | business innovation)

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In the age of open plan offices I think that it is important to give people a place where they can be in the quiet. What do you think?

(via 6 | 5 Fast--And Cheap!--Ways To Make Your Office Space More Productive | Fast Company | business innovation)

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As we approach the 'silly season' I thought it fitting to share this article on stress, the affects of stress and ways to overcome stress. Argh! Stress!

(via How Stress Can Change the Size of Our Brains and What We Can Do to Lower it - The Buffer Blog)

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And then it struck me. I wasn’t making a business case, I was making my case. I was using my own lens to determine what was important to the business without really listening to what mattered.

An interesting lesson putting forward a business case.

5 Ways Intrapreneurs Can Make The Business Case For Change At Their Company | Co.Exist | ideas impact

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The 4th sign is a pretty good indicator that you shouldn't bother.

(via 4 Signs You Shouldn't Bother Applying to a Job | The Daily Muse)