In my company, as part of their DEI commitment, they have Employee Resource Groups. I sit on the steering committee for the women's group. These ERGs have been running for a couple of years now. Unfortunately, they are mostly reaching office workers at Headquarters. We are talking about pushing the program out to the Satellite plants.
In our steering committee meeting last week, I mentioned that the HR rep and I were talking about starting a women's support group. They loved that. But this week they started calling it a Mentoring circle. I told them that I would rather call it a support group. I feel like we will lose people if we call it a mentoring circle. But we have some women who would hear the word mentoring and feel like they didn't need that. So many of our women think they know everything they need to know.
I admit I am passionate about the whole thing. I feel that women supporting each other would go a long way to improving morale. Plus I really would like to see the women at our plant start to work on advancing their careers. We have some talented women who are being held back by lack of skills and/or GEDs.
The upshot of the whole thing is I am going to be heading up the Support group here in Georgia. I may have to develop 2 different groups to allow all women to attend. I may be biting off more than I can chew but I am going to be working to get these ERGs going at our plant.
Starting to see that work life balance disappear.
Have you ever been part of a support group?
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