{"id":14856,"date":"2018-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turner-group.ap.applyflow.com\/community\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T07:00:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T07:00:04","slug":"community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgrecruitment.com.au\/community\/","title":{"rendered":"Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Importance of Community.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Recent research into the strongest predictors of how long we live has shown the top predictor is not diet or exercise, it\u2019s social connection. Being engaged with your community\u2026 talking to the person who makes your coffee (thank you Howard), the people who pass you while you walk the dog\u2026 impacts not only your quality of life, but also your longevity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is something we actually practise as well as preach. When we provide pragmatic career advice to candidates, we specifically emphasise the importance of keeping an active network not just for new business opportunities or mentoring, but more importantly, for future career opportunities. These connections will be absolutely crucial to your development and to help access the hidden job market.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This idea of connection also resonates in other ways. Over the past couple of years, we have been delighted to support the GingerCloud Foundation Modified Rugby Program. This is a unique program that provides support for kids with learning and perceptual difficulties to engage in a team sport with an older peer mentor. Why team sport? The founders of the program wanted their son to be embraced by a club and the supportive community that entails. A lifelong safety net. They could see the potential benefit for other families like theirs, and they are rapidly enlisting more and more rugby clubs to join the program. The aim is not only to bring children with disabilities off the sidelines and into the main game, they are using sport to get isolated kids and their parents involved in their community, and their community engaged with them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

More personally, before having children, I had never appreciated the extent of connection that can be formed through your kids\u2019 school community. Having been involved in our school P&F association over the past three years, I have witnessed immense compassion and community response to individual families\u2019 major traumatic life events. There has been a spontaneous offering of support when it is truly needed, to a magnitude that is humbling. These relationships are enriching in every direction.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So, ignore me if you think I harp on about business networking (to your own peril), but I hope you will take a look around at the community you live in, engage, contribute, and enjoy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Martin Turner<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Importance of Community. Recent research into the strongest predictors of how long we live has shown the top predictor is not diet or exercise, it\u2019s social connection. Being engaged with your community\u2026 talking to the person who makes your coffee (thank you Howard), the people who pass you while you walk the dog\u2026 impacts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgrecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgrecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgrecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgrecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgrecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgrecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgrecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgrecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgrecruitment.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}