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From Disposable to Indispensable: Discover Your Professional Worth

Tips From T. Marie

Marie Before starting my own virtual services business in 2007, I worked a variety of jobs. When you start seeing yourself as more than “just an” anything, you begin to tear down the mental barriers formed by years of feeling expendable. We’d love to have you! — Today, the dynamics of the workplace are changing.

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Employers No Longer Disqualify Those With Criminal Backgrounds

On The Job

From July 2007 to July 2008, more than 10,000 people left Las Vegas as the unemployment rate in the metro area skyrocketed to more than 12 percent and home prices plunged by 30 percent. It was a grim time. Thousands of workers who filled construction jobs left the state in search of a way to survive the Great Recession. Enter Jon Ponder.

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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

Success

When Gary Moore’s son, Andrew, turned 11 in 2007, Moore worried about his future. These students can choose between courses that teach both core soft skills, such as “ communications ” or “community and culture,” and hard technical skills. They yearned for more and they knew they had the skill set to accomplish more.

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Want to Boost Your Creativity? Try These 12 Easy Hacks This Year

Success

In a 2007 TED Talk, Vilayanur S. Gerard Puccio, department chair and professor at the International Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College in New York, says creativity is a survival skill. We all have a list of half-formed ideas that we revisit periodically to see if anything sparks our inspiration.

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Wellbeing and organisational agility will dominate workplace conversations in 2023

Workplace Insight

During the 2007-2009 recession, companies with the most inclusive cultures grew by 14.4 adding diversity to your teams in the form of different personalities, backgrounds, abilities, and skills. percent, as others declined, and saw a 28 percent reduction in employee turnover.

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Competition and Collaboration Creates High Performing Teams

BioTeams

A Harvard Business Review article entitled “Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams (November 2007: Lynda Gratton and Tamara J. One would think that given such variety of backgrounds, skill-sets and functional expertise – the project team would prosper and rapidly achieve project milestones given.

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Is Your Business Missing a Motivating Factor?

Tips From T. Marie

In 2007 I was working for an attorney preparing real estate title closings, otherwise known as a title processor or real estate paralegal. Except in 2007 it became very apparent that people were wrong. And then it was me becoming another person filling out unemployment forms. At first I wasn’t really worried.

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