Relationships, Relationships, Relationships

This past week in our Women and Leadership course we had 4 guest speakers. Among them was Tammy Roberts Myers. Tammy is a VP External Communications for Limited Brands. She explained to our class how she worked at a different corporation for 19 years (a business that was mostly male-dominated) then switched to working at Limited Brands about 4 years ago. The major theme that she wanted to make clear to us was about relationships. She explained that without a good relationship with colleagues, work can become very stressful. It is important to earn your colleague's respect when working with them because if there ever is a problem, they will go along with your advice with a greater ease and respect towards your opinion. I thought Tammy's presentation was very relevant to our class. Women are naturally better at developing relationships than men. So I believe it was very important for all the women to hear this, and take pride in it. It is something that we can use to our advantage to become more successful. I thoroughly enjoyed Mrs. Roberts Myer's presentation and believe it was of great importance for our class to hear and think about.