{"id":42111,"date":"2022-04-09T16:32:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T20:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=42111"},"modified":"2022-04-18T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:32:25","slug":"leadhership-program-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/leadhership-program-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"LeadHERship program kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong> LeadHERship luncheon<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, April 21<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> University Center Tennessee Room<\/p>\n<p><strong>Register:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/tennessee.csod.com\/ui\/lms-learning-details\/app\/event\/d731f1ac-314d-48b6-88a1-b17a026cc18e\">Sign up<\/a> by Monday, April 18<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sharon Couch asked the group of 72 women to think about their most important relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho answered &#8216;Themselves&#8217;?\u201d she then asked.<\/p>\n<p>Most admitted they had not, but the exercise made Couch&#8217;s point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a relationship with yourself helps being in relationship with others,\u201d she said. \u201cEngagement takes energy, and where are you going to get the energy if you don\u2019t take care of yourself?&#8221; she told the women, all employees of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>Being nice to yourself means setting goals, asking for help and \u201cavoiding cutting yourself into pieces to make other people feel comfortable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>On the Zoom call, Couch, a former Olympian long jumper and now a motivational speaker, kicked off the UTC LeadHERship program, a professional development series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no straight road to get where you\u2019re going,\u201d Couch said. \u201cIt\u2019s easy sometimes to look back and see how you got somewhere, but it\u2019s tougher to believe and know that because you got here, you can get there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The idea for LeadHERship spun out of feedback from members of the UTC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/chancellor\/commission-status-of-women\">Commission on the Status of Women<\/a>, said Abeer Mustafa, associate vice chancellor for student affairs and an active member of the commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe heard people saying they wanted more leadership opportunities, and so we wanted to develop something that gave women across the board an opportunity to get that training and development,\u201d Mustafa said.<\/p>\n<p>With the objective of starting in the fall, plans are underway for a certificate program for women participating in LeadHERship, she said.<\/p>\n<p>In the series&#8217; kickoff, Couch, a member of Employee and Organizational Development for the UT System, spoke frankly about personal and professional setbacks and challenges that, though disappointing in the moment, factored into her future successes.<\/p>\n<p>She grew up poor, has been divorced and suffered a short-term speech impairment after a car accident, so hardships were nothing new, she said.<\/p>\n<p>She also lost her job through a tangle of office politics, \u201cbut I\u2019m glad I lost my job,\u201d she said with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>The setback led to her decision to earn a Ph.D. in sport and performance psychology, a goal in which she now can see the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like to call these things &#8216;obstacles&#8217; because that implies you can\u2019t get past it. I like to think of them as opportunities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy story is only told to help your story. 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