This week’s top three distractions from the daily grind: featuring inspiration, holidays and fluffy cats, what more could you want?!
1) Listen: Arianna Huffington giving an inspirational speech on how failure is not the opposite of success, but a stepping stone.
2) Do: Plan your post exam get-a-way The Guardian’s Interactive Holiday Guide.
3) Watch: This amazing documentary on India’s urban Leopards and how our attempts at conservation lead them into conflict with us.
Get yourself down to the British Museum as their hugely acclaimed Ice Age Art: The Arrival of the Modern Mind exhibition has only a few days left to run. A couple of the Bright Team have already been and it is truly extraordinary. In a world where global culture is intertwined and merged by tv and the internet, and art and fashion merely copy the past, to come to face to face with human creativity so completely un-tangled in our own culture is unique. Yet the sprinkling of art from the last century or so highlights just how similar our creative urges still are. It begs the question of what it…
Tell us about your role as an Events Manager
I currently manage all of the events that take place in the Google London offices. There are 3 sites and 11 event spaces in total.
How did your career begin?
After leaving school, I went straight to work in a busy Solicitors office as a Personal Assistant. This did nothing for my creative flair so after a year I went to study Advertising & PR in Glasgow which spurred me into thinking about a career in Event Management.
What did you do next?
After studying, I started out as an Event Assistant at 29Glasgow. Helping out on fa…
Public Speaking. Two words which stabbed fear into the hearts of my peers during school and uni, everyone dreaded public speaking. At school, one girl panicked and hid in the toilet next to the English class and refused to come out to complete her presentation on Elizabeth Bennett until our teacher had compromised and shrunk the thirty-strong audience down to two.
However the girl had a legitimate fear, everything we do for the first few times is generally a disaster, just no one has been watching you do it. And as fear is almost always caused by the unknown, here are some tips to serve as gui…
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