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This Week in Talent (5th August)

TWITBy Lucy EldredAugust 4, 2021Leave a comment

Hi readers! I have a fun and useful story to share with you all. A few weeks back I put a call out to the TWIT universe wanting to speak to anyone that had designed, launched, run or been part of an employee ambassador program – and someone responded. Oh boy was it super useful.…

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I have a fun and useful story to share with you all. A few weeks back I put a call out to the TWIT universe wanting to speak to anyone that had designed, launched, run or been part of an employee ambassador program – and someone responded. Oh boy was it super useful. I was able to pick her brain on all things #AmbassadorLife, and I took a whole A4 page of notes to take back to my own project team and dazzle them with new ideas (that weren’t mine)!

It got me thinking … why don’t we use this TWIT space as a talent acquisition matchmaking service? TA Tinder? The idea is – if you’re working on something new, and you just wish you could chat to someone about it … I’M YA GAL! Let me know if there’s something you’d love to speak to someone else about and I’ll hook you up.

In other news – this video got me thinking about how much I love to peep other people’s homes when they’re having a video meeting with me. No one is safe. I scan people’s surroundings in meetings and try to find things to talk to them about (hence where my inspo for TA Cribs came from). Today I was chatting with someone who had a shelf behind them covered in beautiful plants, and now … I’ve decided to rearrange my desk area to try and assemble something similar. There’s something about having a plant in the background of your video chat that really just adds a little ‘sumthin sumthin’ to a typically boring business meeting.

So that’s it from me this week. Don’t forget to reach out if you’ve got a project or something you’re working on you’d love to pick someone’s brains about. Hit me up here.

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