by Jen Monroe, UMW College of Business Class of 2018 and Leadership Colloquium intern My phone rings and is the reason I get woken up, I can’t remember the last Saturday or Sunday that I slept in. Every weekend since the days when I had a flip phone, my dad will call me and say […]
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How Do You Manage Time Effectively?
by Sara Branner, Colloquium Advisory Board Member Often my family, friends and colleagues will comment on my busy lifestyle and “how do you get it all done?” I think about my time management frequently and how it impacts my work production, effectiveness and overall quality of life. I don’t like when I hear others say, […]
Female Movers and Shakers Across the Centuries
by Martha Hutzel, Library Director, Central Rappahannock Regional Library As a librarian, and a library director, I am a lover of books of all kinds. I read fiction and nonfiction, magazines, comics, the newspaper, and plenty of online articles. I grew up loving books and the printed word. I recently read The Women Who Made […]
Lifting While Being Lifted!
We hear too many anecdotes about women who have very negative experiences working with other women, especially when the supervisor is a woman. Ladies, we can do better than this!
Wellness in the Workplace
By Maddie Morris, Business Major at UMW Student Board Member, Women’s Leadership Colloquium @ UMW Wellness is important in our personal lives, but what about in the workplace? I am the Group Fitness Student Administrator at UMW, and I am a business major with a math minor. Recently, I have really struggled with connecting my […]
It’s Time To Alter Our Reality
We live in a world where information is pushed to us around the clock. Talking heads on cable news networks fill air time while a breaking-news ticker scrolls by, often recycling headlines that are hours old.
5 Ways to Increase Your Productivity
Submitted by Linda Clevenger, Organization Direct Everyone wants to be more productive. Between work, life, outside activities and other obligations, the feeling of trying to get it all done and keep up with “life” stress can begin to take over – and this is not healthy.
Networking: Don’t Hide, Meet and Build Those Relationships!
Submitted by Stephanie Lyles, Business Development Officer at NSWC Federal Credit Union It always amazes me when I go to a network meeting and there are people sitting around playing with their phone, waiting for the program to start. I want to go up to them and ask them what are they doing there?
What if Cupid has Something to Teach us as Leaders?
Submitted by Linda Caporali, Colloquium board member and account executive with TSYS What if Cupid has something to teach us as leaders? Cupid may well be showing us to “Lead with our hearts”. Let’s allow ourselves to be open to others and try to understand what is in another’s heart. Where could be go as […]
Positive Ideas for Business Women in 2017
So, how many people already gave up on their New Year’s Resolutions? A lot has been written about making, maintaining and completing New Year Resolutions. Some people believe, “why make them”? If you don’t make them then you don’t feel defeated when you cannot keep them. It’s mid-January some people may have already threw in […]