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		<title>What is the difference between sponsors and mentors? Another perspective.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr.Nancy McInerney-Lacombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This question took me on a long and cathartic journey through my corporate career. At first, I just rummaged through my memory identifying pivotal people and events that would qualify for each of the categories but then I decided to get organized and prepared a 3 column chart – Mentor/ Mentor-Sponsor/ Sponsor. The chart in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the difference between sponsors and mentors?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phoebe Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout my career I have had several sponsors and mentors.  Sometimes even the same person.  To me a sponsor is in a position of influence and can persuade others of your value.  Definitely a sponsor is needed to get a promotion or a plum assignment or a big sale.  Usually, my sponsor was my boss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to deal with the old boys&#8217; club Bay Street work environment?</title>
		<link>http://babesonbaystreet.com/2011/09/28/how-to-deal-with-the-old-boys-club-bay-street-work-environment-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr.Nancy McInerney-Lacombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In a typical “old [white] boys’ club” Bay St. work environment, what advice do you have for young, visible-minority women who want to be upwardly-mobile but who are always excluded from informally socializing with these men? &#160; If I read this question correctly, I believe it is all young women, not just visible-minority women, who would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to deal with the old boys&#8217; club Bay Street work environment?</title>
		<link>http://babesonbaystreet.com/2011/09/20/how-to-deal-with-the-old-boys-club-bay-street-work-environment-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Hohol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In a typical &#8220;old [white] boys&#8217; club&#8221; Bay St. work environment, what advice do you have for young, visible-minority women who want to be upwardly-mobile but who are always excluded from informally socializing with these men? Being a visible minority, in addition to being a young woman in this situation, does add additional challenges I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to deal with the old boys&#8217; club Bay Street work environment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In a typical &#8220;old [white] boys&#8217; club&#8221; Bay Street work environment, what advice do you have for young, visible-minority women who want to be upwardly-mobile but who are always excluded from informally socializing with these men? &#160; My advice would be to (1) focus on job performance and being the best you can be on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you advise a young woman to socialize with her work colleagues?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincenza Sera</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Use Your Common Sense!! and Everything in Moderation!! This is the closest I can come to a one size fits all answer. &#160; After hours socialization is a very important part of the learning curve in corporate life; you will learn who you can trust; you will learn more about your organization (this is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you advise a young women to socialize with her work colleagues?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 13:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti Croft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting question! Perhaps the first thing to do would be to define socialize as I am sure we all have different ideas of what constitutes work place socializing, everything from saying good morning to spending a weekend in Vegas â€“ quite a broad spectrum. &#160; I think it is important to socialize with work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you advise a young woman to socialize with her work colleagues?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 15:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it is important to have good working relationships with colleagues and socializing is a way of getting to know your colleagues better and improving communication. However, I think it is also important to have a professional relationship with your colleagues so you need to be careful. There can be both professional and personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you advise a young woman to socialize with her work colleagues?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr.Nancy McInerney-Lacombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is such a great question and in my experience it is a real dilemma. &#160; In the early days of my career &#8211; earlyÂ to late 20&#8242;s &#8211; a small group of women (peers) formed in the company where I was working. We knew everything about each other &#8211; truly &#8211; from what we liked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work Life Balance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phoebe Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, I found these to be incredibly difficult questions.Â  First,Â  I have to ask myself â€œWhat do people mean when they say Work/Life Balanceâ€?Â  Â Â It seems to me, people mean different things.Â  Is WLB (as Iâ€™ll call it) a sort of a stand in for feeling calm and not frazzled.Â  Sort of a [...]]]></description>
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