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Nottingham connected connected Nottingham Education & Career Classifieds 29 recognises everyone fails. Using such failures as 8. Appropriate Often and people are running African Communities in Nottingham Research understand other tech: cultures lifestyles and are around willing learning opportunities, trial and error, beginning when trying to develop the benefit next innovative platform but to use those skills to the of the community and we fall down again and again trying to walk, it’s only the A simplest things workforce work best. The the sometimes organisation. more diverse will build natural to recognize that everyone fails ... and often. power of existing across free systems such as leading Google, trust and confidence communities, to Embracing failure in a positive way allows you to move Microsoft and social tools and apps are sharing of information and media closer working. past the negatives and the disappointments and for organisations. Many We amazingly are not yet hardy fully representative and we are charities working change your mindset from ‘failure is bad’ to ‘failure can can also this benefit from free The an power of to address imbalance. If platforms. you are from under- be good and here’s how to make it a tool for you. Here radio is often Social and represented group, underestimated. we fully encourage you media to consider are five ways embracing failure can work for you: reporting platforms can enable people to share joining our policing family. and from create a black information and mobilise at a lower People and minority ethnic background 1. We learn some of our best lessons through cost, greater and faster scale than ever including, our speed eastern European and was Chinese failure. previously and possible, but from they the require the gay, building of communities, people lesbian, bisexual community (online are and currently offline under-represented and a trans+ communities 2. Failure inspires us. If we look at it properly within Nottinghamshire Police. and don’t allow it to define us, failure can be 9. Inability to constructively embrace failure in Nottinghamshire Police will open recruitment for Police a great source of motivation. a healthy way, will get you stuck and hinder Constables on 1 September 2017. you from accomplishing what you could. 3. Failure teaches us humility. We feel humble For full African details of seminar dates around Nottinghamshire, Global Integration Diaspora, an African led not-for-profit organisation, is carrying out a That would be the Network worst (GAIN) outcome of all. after losing region. and recognize that we are research on individuals and groups, businesses and www. organisations in Nottingham Visit www.gaindiaspora. information on eligibility and to apply please visit Embracing failure positively requires a leap of faith, but indeed human. co.uk for more information and to complete: where you nottinghamshire.police.uk/makeadifference once you jump over the hurdle, you will understand can also read more officer profiles to learn more about 4. Embracing failure allows us to take more that fearing failure / only holds Questionnaire: you back from https://goo.gl/taWOv6 realizing - Individual Personal the role and the various stages of the application. risks. Once we come to terms with having - Organisations Groups Questionnaire: https://goo.gl/RZT8FJ your full potential. In / organisations that encourages Interested in a career with Nottinghamshire Police? You failed and survived, we can take greater risks. people to acknowledge their failures or errors at the can For also more sign-up to receive updates about our latest details, please contact: Mr. Abdoulie Jah on M: 07946303384 organisations meetings helps the staff, volunteers 5. Failure makes success taste even better. We careers opportunities via the ‘Nottinghamshire Police E: [email protected] W: www.gaindiaspora.co.uk and the organisation to grow and to | keep improving. have a better appreciation of success having Careers’ Facebook Page and @NottsPolCareers Twitter. By acknowledging failure as a group, everyone failed a few times on the way up the ladder. 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