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Walk In Our Shoes!
Can you connect the face with the shoes?
With winter finally behind us, everyone at Global Resources is able to take their summer shoes out of storage and show off some dazzling footwear.
“The perfect summer accessory is a pedicure,” declared Donna (10.).
A broad array of shoe styles is on display in the office, from quietly conservative to boldly glamorous and everything in between. Some pairs were only worn for the photo shoot. Magna (5.) shared that she really couldn’t walk in hers, while other shoes, meant for comfort (F.), show up every day at the workplace (in a …
Highlights: Women Employed’s The Working Lunch
Women Employed (WE) is a Chicago advocacy organization, which for more than 40 years has been dedicated to creating fairer workplaces and expanding economic opportunities for women. We were excited to fill a table at their annual ‘The Working Lunch’ on May 21st. It was, as always, an extremely well attended, efficiently run and organized event with awesome networking and thought provoking speakers.
A Bill to Prevent Discrimination of Pregnant Workers
After a delicious luncheon, we had a line-up of three great speakers. First, Anne Ladky, Executive Director of WE, announced the exciting news that a bill to offer protection …
One Person Can Make a Difference!
Allison (center with the snazzy purple shoelaces) helps hold the survivor banner!
Global Resources rallied behind Nigel’s daughter, Allison, a survivor of cancer, as she raised funds for a cure through a ‘Relay For Life’ event that was held at the University of Maryland. Allison was excited to share that we contributed approximately $900 of the grand total that she raised of $1,596, benefiting the American Cancer Society.
Allison talks about participating in the ‘Relay For Life.’
Allison shared her experience of being a cancer survivor. She had been just a regular high school student, spending more time …
Jumping Into Our Hearts
John and Marie’s daughter Riley participated this year in her school’s Jump Rope For Heart event, raising money for the American Heart Association in honor of her grandfather, Papa, who passed away last December from undetected heart disease. Her goal was “to help raise money to find way to prevent this from happening to other families.”
Her fundraising goal was $500. Employees at Global Resources responded, along with family and friends, and Riley raised $1,280. Riley was the top fundraiser at her school, raising the largest amount of funds ever from a single participant. …
Expanding Our Healthy Vending Choices
We were delighted to have Nicole from Mastercraft Coffee & Vending take over our conference room to share a selection of healthy vending machine choices.
There was a broad array of beverages, entrees and snacks presented during our lunch hour. Employees had the opportunity to taste items as well as evaluate their nutrition and pricing. As the Mastercraft website points out, “people must first like the taste of a healthy item, or they will not purchase that selection.”
Taste-testing, it’s hard work, but someone has to do it!
We’re in complete agreement. It’s …
The Greenest Office
Here at Global Resources, we’re well aware that interior plants may improve concentration as well as increase productivity and reduce stress according to research. This is why we employ a plant service to take care of select ‘rent-to-kill’ plants that are placed throughout our building. There is one office, however, which boasts much more than the usual amount of greenery.
Plants also aid in hiding from pesky photographers!
One might even say that it suggests a greenhouse with lush plants trailing off desks and file cabinets. The office belongs to Randi and Theresa, who also run our travel department …
Going Above and Beyond!
At Global Resources LLC, we all believe in giving back to our community, whether it’s money, possessions, or time. We’re proud to recognize a few members of our team who go even further, Andrea, Jennifer and Rick. These three have donated their hair to create wigs either for women fighting cancer, through Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths, or for children suffering with any medical conditions which result in hair loss, via Locks for Love.
The reasons that these three donated their hair are remarkably similar. For Andrea, it was just feeling that it was the right thing …
Behind The Scenes: Prepping For Our 2014 Annual Meeting
Global Resources’ Annual Meeting is just around the corner and Kim and Sarah are hard at working assembling all the nametags, handouts and folders to be distributed to our attendees. It’s a long, extremely detail-orientated process that involves box after box of materials to be sorted and arranged. Temporary tables line the hallway for this time intensive task.
Hats off to Kim and Sarah for managing this great paper trail!
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Showing Appreciation on Valentine’s Day!
Coworkers at Global Resources celebrate Valentine’s Day by using it to express appreciation for each others’ hard work all year long.
One of our road-warrior consultants surprised his entire corporate support team with lovely vases of flowers.
The ladies in the finance department wore red and decorated their offices with Valentine Day balloons.
They also had a special visitor, who (before leaving to go to school) handed out valentines and gift bags!
