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Failure Lab launches SHE training program for women

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for women to live fully integrated lives. But then, especially with COVID, the impact on working women has been particularly disproportionate. So, it just felt like (SHE) is very needed right now.”

While more and more women are entering positions of power and leadership on a national and global scale, at the close of 2020, despite making up 50.8% of the U.S. population, women made up only 7.8% of the CEOs in the S&P 500 (this number up from 6% in 2019). According to the U.S. Department of Labor, women are making 82.3 cents on the dollar compared to men, with minority women faring even worse. In 2020, Black and Latina women with bachelor’s degrees made 65% of the wages of their white male counterparts.

The pandemic has only exacerbated the systemic inequity seen by women. COVID-19 has brought into sharp focus the continuing disparity between the sexes as the world struggles to handle virtual work, quarantines, school closings and overwhelming uncertainty. In February, women’s labor force participation was at 55%, a number that has not been seen in the U.S. since April 1987, according to the DOL.

“If you talk to any successful woman, the ones who by all outward appearances are doing amazing work, juggling all the balls with apparent ease — every single one of us thinks that we should be doing better, and we can tell you, in great detail, a dozen ways in which we are failing on a daily basis,” Baeten said.

“Women hold themselves and one another to ridiculous standards, often manifested in unhealthy ways. Both of those things — the external and the internal — need attention. That’s the reason for SHE,” Baeten said.

She added one of the things she became most excited about after Failure Lab concluded beta testing a condensed version of the SHE curriculum a few weeks ago was the women’s eager responses to being part of something like this.

“We were really pleasantly surprised and amazed that people were so into it. There’s not really an opportunity right now for us to network in the way that we used to — meeting new people, having space to have robust and interesting conversations with smart people. The feedback that we got every single week was, ‘We could have gone on and on,’ or, ‘We could have had more time to talk about this topic and that topic.’ … I was nervous that it would be too much — people are so tired of being on Zoom — but I think we’re also just desperate for community and connection.”

Baeten said there’s a lot of research out there right now that shows employee contentment has to do with how many level-two relationships people have in the workplace. A level-two relationship is 20% more intimate than just a work acquaintance — a person you know something about who is not exactly a friend, not somebody you would hang out with after work, but who you feel close to in your workspace.

“One of the fastest ways to get to a level-two relationship is to have facilitated, real conversations about real things in a safe space,” Baeten said. “… We generally don’t get together and talk about how we feel about failing and whether or not our lives have set us up to feel like we can take risks.”

Heyne will facilitate the sixweek virtual program, which will be limited to 15 women and will be offered starting June 23 at two times: 12-1:30 p.m. Wednesdays and 4:30-6 p.m. Thursdays. Tuition is $1,500 and includes a Failure Archetype Assessment; access to six sessions; all necessary materials and resources; and a private Failure Lab-SHE community group.

Baeten said the first cohort of SHE is designed for executives — defined as people who are responsible for a team or an organization, managing people, not products. The second cohort will focus on emerging leaders and likely will launch in the late fall or early winter, after Failure Lab conducts its next general management training cohort in September.

“The idea of keeping the executives as a separate cohort from the emerging leaders is that we don’t want these women to feel like it’s another space where they’re tasked with mentoring,” Baeten said. “We want this to be a space where they can interact with peers of various environments who have (similar) life experiences, because the conversations that happen then can be more impactful and pointed.”

In addition to the U.S.-based cohort, a separate facilitator is going to run a cohort simultaneously in Australia.

Enrollment for SHE is now open at failure-lab.com/she.

Curriculum overview

Session 1: Failure Lab 101 — Failure & Foundations: An invitation for self-reflection. How does your relationship with failure express itself in your life?

Session 2: Failure & Physicality — Failure & Practice: Understand the physicality of failure and stress. Master the tools to show up in your life with purpose.

Session 3: Failure & Women — Failure & Power Dynamics: What unique challenges do women leaders face? How does patriarchy impact our lives and our legacies?

Session 4: Failure & Risk — Failure & Imposter Syndrome: Women have specific internal and external challenges around risk tolerance and imposter syndrome. This session will unpack the things that hold you back.

Session 5: Failure & Resilience — Failure & Nourishment: “They tried to bury us. They didn’t realize we were seeds.” Create the resources you need to thrive.

Session 6: Failure & Community — Failure & Mentorship: The power of community. Leverage your power to empower other women and girls. Move into your future with confidence and purpose.

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GVSU joins national effort to refine learning

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compared with 22% in the second quartile, 37% in the third quartile and 60% in the top quartile.

COVID-19 has further exacerbated the crisis. A December 2020 McKinsey & Company study estimated that “students of color could be six to 12 months behind, compared with four to eight months for white students. While all students are suffering, those who came into the pandemic with the fewest academic opportunities are on track to exit with the greatest learning loss.”

With the formation of REP4, the institutions are leaning on the insights of their students to provide solutions that can drive productive change that addresses their needs and desires.

“Universities have been subjected to grave scrutiny not just in politics but by students and their supporters in recent years,” said Marlene Tromp, president of Boise State University. “Students want to know that what they are getting is what they are going to need when they go out in the world, that they are being challenged, that they are getting the kinds of opportunities that higher education promises.”

She said out-of-the-box thinking and a focus on student success will drive the initiative.

“We are really looking forward to learning from our learners and convening with other partners in the Northwest region of the country,” she said.

Russell Lowery-Hart, president of Amarillo College, said REP4 is transforming the learning structure that will “save higher education from itself.” Lowery-Hart said at his institution, the students are engaged. They have written the school’s values and changed the semester structure from a 16-week to an eight-week term.

“Higher education is at risk of irrelevance if we cannot adapt and innovate for a shifting landscape in technology and workforce development,” he said. “REP4 links transformative institutions committed to reimagining learning. Amarillo College is honored to join this work with the goal of creating 21st century skills students can take with them on new and better transfer pathways.”

GVSU has implemented two ideas from the Learner Engagement Challenge. One idea is focused on a life readiness class to help students see opportunities that lie ahead of them; the other idea calls for a theme-based curriculum with a goal of making clear connections to careers.

Each of the founding six partners will hold its own regional summit for REP4, with Grand Valley State University hosting the national convening on Aug. 5. The alliance is intended to grow over time and other institutions are invited to become involved with REP4.

“We all have a commitment to higher education,” Mantella said. “We have an appreciation, a deep appreciation for the power of insight that learners can bring, whether they are here with us or they are aspiring to come to us in the near future. We have a strong and deep commitment to community. We have a deep commitment to the equity in education. We are ready and have been embracing change and we are richly different in our setting, in our strategy, our cultures, our plans, our institutional types, which makes a really exciting environment for change to be examined, for experiments to be looked at, learning to happen and innovation to accelerate.”