Women's Leadership Conference Official Blog
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TWT writer Jaclyn Stevenson interviewed conference presenter Martha LaCroix, who says the key to time management is making good choices.
Martha LaCroix, executive vice president with the Yankee Candle Company, Inc., juggles multiple ongoing commitments to career, education, family and beyond. One is a standing date each September, when she makes it a priority to be [...]
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TWT writer Jaclyn Stevenson interviewed conference presenter Christine Henriques Mark about how she balances her roles as entrepreneur, mother, designer, landlord…
When trying to get a better grasp on how she manages her time, Christine Henriques Mark says an exercise that works for her is making a list of every role she plays in life.
“It [...]
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“While traditionalists believe that ‘paying your dues’ is necessary to advance in one’s career, young staffers in general tend to reject the status quo.”
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Erica Williams, deputy director of Progress 2050 and a Washington, D.C.-based activist, has a bone to pick with the portrayal of "Millennials" as lazy. Citing a recent Washington Post article and a Pew Research study, Williams claims that the authors have "missed the mark" on describing her generation. In her HBR post titled "Debunking The Millenials' [...]
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"We continue to hear that networking is the number one way to find the job we're looking for, earn the business we want, find the resources we need, and to make the connections we need as human beings. Well, why aren't we all stars at networking?"
—Pat Obuchowski, Chief Empowerment Officer of inVisionaria,
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Workshop presenter Alexandra Levit is a Wall Street Journal columnist and author of several books. She recently shared advice from her latest title, Millennial Tweet: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas for Managing the Millennials, for a post called 2010 Talent Resolutions, published on the blog Talent Management Intelligence. We have excerpted Levit's resolution here:
Talent Resolution #4: Manage [...]
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Established in 1996 as a women's professional development conference, the Bay Path College Women's Leadership Conference is the largest annual gathering of professional women in Western Massachusetts. Each spring, professionals, entrepreneurs, business and community leaders, students, alumnae, and faculty come together for a day of education and inspiration at the Mass Mutual Center in downtown [...]
