{"id":43990,"date":"2017-08-07T12:18:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw\/?p=43990"},"modified":"2017-08-07T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:21:15","slug":"lifting-while-being-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw\/2017\/08\/07\/lifting-while-being-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifting While Being Lifted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hear too many anecdotes about women who have very negative experiences working with other women, especially when the supervisor is a woman.\u00a0 Ladies, we can do better than this!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been there.\u00a0 I have worked for women who perceived me as a threat (so I was told by those close to those women).\u00a0 They had insecurities such that anything accomplished by me or my team was a \u2018negative\u2019 instead of a \u2018positive.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To that end, I have tried (and am a work-in-progress) to lift the women I work with, both those in the reporting channel as well as my peers in the workplace.\u00a0 What about you?<\/p>\n<p>Everyone, female or male, needs a group of folks who will give them constructive criticism, advice, support, and sometimes a kick in the pants.\u00a0 I have had two female bosses who would do that\u2026 and they did it because they cared about my career progression and ME.\u00a0 They couched the conversation such that I walked away THANKFUL to have been kicked!\u00a0 What a blessing women who will do this are!<\/p>\n<p>Some of us don\u2019t have that at work, but we need it!\u00a0 So consider joining a GOT YOUR BACK trio.\u00a0 Coordinated by the Women\u2019s Leadership Colloquium @ UMW, three women at similar levels in different organizations are paired.\u00a0 The group talks confidentially about work situations and lifts each other up.\u00a0 My group meets monthly before work; Martha Hutzel and Roberta Tinch are blessings in my life!<\/p>\n<p>If you need this or would like to explore more, contact Andrea Cordray (<a href=\"mailto:acordray@umw.edu\">acordray@umw.edu<\/a>) for more info.\u00a0 We women need to circle our wagons and be supportive, not destructive, to our careers.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Lynne Richardson<\/strong> is the dean of the University of Mary Washington&#8217;s College of Business, marketing professor and chair or the Women&#8217;s Leadership Colloquium @ UMW board.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hear too many anecdotes about women who have very negative experiences working with other women, especially when the supervisor is a woman.\u00a0 Ladies, we can do better than this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":43953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lifting While Being Lifted! 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