colour co-ordinating

For work, we interview people from various communities around Australia and ask them how they feel about their community- we ask them what they think are the strengths of their local area, the weaknesses of their local area, aspirations for their local area etc. The fun part is grouping their responses where you can see trends emerging which show the underlying positive or negative issues for that community. 

To conduct the data analysis, we enter the workbooks into Excel and and then sort responses alphabetically- however this only gets you so far.. some people might write for strengths of the area: Parks- which would sort under P, but while another might write The parks which would sort under T... so a bit of maual grunt work is needed! And this is my solution below- good old fashioned colouring in :)

Question: What are the key elements you feel contribute to making your work a great place to work?

KEY

PINK: Friendly environment

YELLOW: Accessible

BLUE: Good facilities in and around the workplace

p.s. The photo is one I took at work yesterday- Instagram makes everything look cool!

New places

Excited by travelling to new places...

I have just been informed I will be travelling to Perth for work at the end of this month!

Image courtesy of laurenconrad.com

procrastination

One of my co-workers just e-mailed me this and it was too good not to post. It is so true. It made me laugh because we have had many a late night together working right up until a deadline (in some cases even on the plane, then in the taxi on the way to the meeting...eep!).

Afterthought: How ironic that I was at work, procrastinating with this blog post!
I think I'm at stage 4(a). at the minute.

friday afternoon

camberbert & trilby cheese

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crackers

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quince paste

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grapes 

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champagne

= the perfect way to end a week at work :) 

As I will be away for my birthday on Monday, my lovely colleagues threw me and P (another Feb bday) a little "friday afternoon drinks and nibblies" to celebrate. We sat on our red office lounge chairs and I was surprised when one of our clients popped in with a  present of a box of chocolates and a card for me! Was a nice way to end the week. Now to bday weekend celebrations with family and friends x