A Busy Week

This week, I enjoyed the panel because of the different and untraditional perspectives that they offered on how they started their own businesses. Two of them had graduated with degrees that were very different from the profession that they now had, and that made me feel better about my decisions in choosing a major.

I also went to my first meeting for the Walnut Springs mentoring project. We had to go get background checks, and we're meeting again this week to talk with the Walnut Springs principal about the girls who were chosen for the program. It'll be interesting, I'm excited and nervous for the project, but we they're getting us Panera tomorrow though so I'm happy.

I signed up to be apart of the Women in Leadership team for St. Jude's and I'm really excited for it! I'm going to the letter sending party tomorrow before class. I just made my site and people can go to it online and donate in order to support St. Jude's and my team: www.myuptildawn.org/sskeen This is a great cause and I'm excited to be apart of it by raising money for the children.

Networking

This week we talked about networking in the class and how important it was. The speakers that we heard from were Tammy Roberts Myers from Limited Brands, Susan Merryman from the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, Jean Reynolds from State Auto Group, and Jean Halpin from Ohio Health. I enjoyed all of thier presentations, but I especially liked Tammy Roberts Myers because she offered the perspective of working in two different environments in the workplace. She said that when she got out of college she worked at the Bob Evans business company, which was a very male dominated environment. She now works at Limited Brands, which I learned was the parent company of Victoria's Secret and Bath and Body Works. This is a very female dominated environment and much more relaxed and laid-back compared to working at the Bob Evans company, which was very strictly business and everyone was always on time to the meetings. She said that even though she enjoys her work environment now and how relaxed she is about work, that she would have preferred that she had still worked at Bob Evans in the male dominated structured environment so that she had the knowledge and discipline of how to conduct herself in both of these different work situations.  I thought that this was a very different perspective, and she also gave us free lotion which I was really excited about. She also said that now she has professional networking connections in both of the businesses that she's worked in, and that she has always respected the people from Bob Evans because she knew the importance of building connections.