MEET THE 2020 LEADERSHIP TRAILBLAZER WINNER VANESSA DONOVAN HALE

MEET THE 2020 LEADERSHIP TRAILBLAZER WINNER Vanessa Donovan Hale, Assistant Town Administrator, Southborough, MA The League caught up with the 2020 Leadership Trailblazer Award Winner Vanessa Donovan Hale to talk about being named a Leadership Trailblazer and having a career in public service: Q: Congratulations on being named the 2020 Leadership Trailblazer Award Winner. [...]

2020-12-23T12:00:24-08:00December 23rd, 2020|Encourage, Exclusives, Featured|Comments Off on MEET THE 2020 LEADERSHIP TRAILBLAZER WINNER VANESSA DONOVAN HALE

Should Women Be More Worried About The Glass Cliff Than The Glass Ceiling?

By knowing that the glass cliff exists, we can not only avoid falling off it, but climb above it. By Amanda Marcovitch, Forbes guest writer As women, we shouldn’t solely strive to shatter the glass ceiling. We must also avoid tumbling down the glass cliff. What’s the glass cliff, you ask? British comedian Sandi Toksvig explained it [...]

2019-07-09T22:23:14-07:00November 14th, 2018|#CareerCorner, Career Corner, Educate, Encourage, Exclusives, Featured|Comments Off on Should Women Be More Worried About The Glass Cliff Than The Glass Ceiling?

4 Ways Women Can Build Relationships When They Feel Excluded at Work

4 Ways Women Can Build Relationships When They Feel Excluded at Work   By Brenda F. Wensil and Kathryn Heath A male friend of ours recently had a realization. He was walking through the bar at a private golf club, looking for a colleague he was meeting for dinner. The dark-paneled bar was filled with men [...]

2019-07-09T22:23:14-07:00October 22nd, 2018|Educate, Encourage, Exclusives, Featured, Uncategorized|Comments Off on 4 Ways Women Can Build Relationships When They Feel Excluded at Work

AMAZING Women, Accomplishments & Goals…

What are YOU most proud of achieving in 2016? What are YOUR goals for 2017? 2016 will go down in the record books as one of the most unusual, controversial years in history! Between the discord of the national election and unprecedented civil discord across the world to the unbelievable athleticism of the summer Olympics [...]

2019-07-09T22:22:48-07:00December 31st, 2016|#GenderBalance, Encourage, Exclusives, Featured, Uncategorized|Comments Off on AMAZING Women, Accomplishments & Goals…

Guest Writer Jan Perkins on They’re Thinking It, So We Might As Well Hear it!

The Importance of: By Jan Perkins, Senior Partner, Management Partners (former city manager) It can be scary to ask people for genuine feedback, because it requires you to be vulnerable and to open yourself to criticism. You risk learning that a project you poured your heart into was perceived by others as less than successful, [...]

2019-07-09T22:22:46-07:00November 1st, 2016|Encourage, Exclusives, Guest Blog Posts, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Guest Writer Jan Perkins on They’re Thinking It, So We Might As Well Hear it!

Guest Writer Jacolyn Thiel, P.E. on the Value of Working with Strong Women Through a Professional Association

  Having a strong group of women to work with leads to some great advantages. By Jacolyn "Jackie" Thiel, PE, City Engineer, City of Upper Arlington, OH WTS stands for Women’s Transportation Seminar. Many may find it a strange name, but this was the original name from when the organization was founded in 1977 as [...]

2019-07-09T22:22:45-07:00October 13th, 2016|#GenderBalance, Encourage, Exclusives, Featured, Share Your Story, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Guest Writer Jacolyn Thiel, P.E. on the Value of Working with Strong Women Through a Professional Association

Moms in the Top Job?

Guest Blogger Linda Kelly on the Top 10 Reasons Why.......... By Linda Kelly, Town Manager - Windsor, CA In honor of Mother’s Day 2016 and our Guest Blogger's 10th year as a city manager (and with deepest apologies to David Letterman), here are the Top Ten Reasons why moms rock as city and county managers, police [...]

2019-07-09T22:22:33-07:00May 7th, 2016|Encourage, Exclusives, Featured, Guest Blog Posts, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Moms in the Top Job?
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