May 19th, 2010 | WCN Career Club - "Relationship Strategy: Improving business and personal relationships"

When: 19:00-21:00

Where:
Binder Grösswang offices
Sterngasse 13
1010 Vienna, AT

Through understanding the differences in people’s behavior, participants will be able to greatly improve their interaction with others. This workshop will teach participants how to be more comfortable working with people whose behavioral styles differ from theirs, thus increasing communication success.

During the interactive session, participants will learn how to:

• Identify own behavioral style
• Identify the behavioral style of others
• Communicate with other people by adapting their behavioral style in order to treat them the way they want to be treated
• Understand that although an individual’s personality is as unique as his/her thumbprint, many behaviors can be positioned within a predictable framework
• Recognize how a person’s behavioral patterns influence what he/she wants, needs, and expects from others

BENEFITS

• Understand and adjust to the differences in people by observing their behavior and adapt one´s own behavioral style
• Reduce tension in business and personal settings
• Increase cooperation and trust in work relationships

Speaker: Kay Lechleitner, Career coach, trainer and developer of assessment tool Skill Cards(C).

We hope to see many of you,

With best regards

Matanat Rahimova & Caterina Galea

Co-Presidents WCN Vienna City Network, member of the EuropeanPWN

Please sign up by Monday 13th May on EPWN calendar. Enquiries after 13th should be directed to careerclub@wcnvienna.org

April 21st, 2010 | WCN Career Club - "Identifying Skills Workshop"

When: 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Where:
Binder Grösswang offices
Sterngasse 13
1010 Vienna

Registration: European PWN or send an email to Marinela.Farkas@ctec.lafarge.com

Dear ladies,

Our Topic for the April Career Club is:

Identifying Skills Workshop

Speaker: Mag. Kay Lechleitner

About the Workshop:

Your skills, interests, personality and values play an important role in your career choice. Self assessment is the first step of the career planning/change process. It is the process of gathering information about yourself in order to effectively plan your own career, personal development or when re-entering the labour market.

Workshop objectives:

In an interactive learning environment using the SkillCards© instrument, you will focus on:

• identifying and using your individual unique strengths
• obtaining clarity about your career options
• identifying job opportunities
• matching your skills with your career goals
• increasing your self-confidence
• preparing for job interviews

About the speaker:

The Workshop is facilitated by Mag. Kay Lechleitner, career coach, trainer and developer of assessment tool SkillCards©.

M: 0699-81824089
E: info@skillcards.at, klechleitner@netexpat.com
W: www.skillcards.at, www.netexpat.com

Please sign up ASAP on the European PWN calendar or send an email to Marinela.Farkas@ctec.lafarge.com

We hope to see many of you !

Christina Thomar & Ursula Vavrik
Co-Presidents WCN Vienna

March 17th, 2010 | WCN Mentoring Program

for mentoring program participants only

February 10, 2010 | WCN Career Club – "What About Your Z-Factor?"

When: 19:00-21:00

Where:
Binder Grösswang offices
Sterngasse 13
1010 Vienna, AT

Dear ladies,

On February 10th from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm we will have our WCN Career Club:

speaker:  Elfriede Gerdenits
              Career coach & Author
              www.zufriedenheitscoach.de

topic:      What about your Z - factor ?

About speaker and topic:

Elfriede Gerdenits: for many years she is coaching people who face job (re-)orientation and, as jobcoach at ORF and Hitradio Ö3 known far beyond Austria’s borders. 
She is Austria’s most popular career coach with a total of over 30,000 people serviced in Austria. Executives, professionals and students, young professionals and intermediates Searching for a job for a professional perspective, for a fulfilling future. She works with groups as well as with individuals and can draw on extensive experience as a career coach, trainer and “Z-coach”.

Her passion for writing has led her to publish her experience in several nonfiction books. As a hobby she also writes novels. Especially her work as a career coach has led her to look beneath the surface: What makes people unhappy/unsatisfied with their job? Most of all it is not just the professional environment that leads to dissatisfaction, but their own expectations and unfulfilled goals. The eternal search for something that most of the clients cannot really put into words. 

What about your Z-Factor? 

Career in brief:

• Elfriede Gerdenits, born 1958, 2 children, lives in Baden&/Vienna.
  
• Author of nonfiction books and novels.
  
• Career coach, Z-Coach, CVET trainer (continuous vocational education and training), presenter and Dale Carnegie certified

You can register via the EuropeanPWN calender or send an e-mail to president_uv@wcnvienna.org

Hope to see many of you there !

With best regards,

Christina Thomar & Ursula Vavrik
Co-Presidents WCN Vienna

January 20, 2010 | WCN Career Club – "The Power of Branding"

When: 19:00-21:00

Where:
Binder Grösswang offices
Sterngasse 13
1010 Vienna, AT

Registration: EuropeanPWN

Dear ladies,

On January 20th from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm we will have our WCN Career Club:

Speaker:         Tina Feiertag

Topic:              The Power of Branding

December 16, 2009 | WCN Career Club - Conflict Management

When: 19:00-21:00

Where:
Binder Grösswang Rechtsanwälte OG
Sterngasse 13
1010 Vienna

Registration: EuropeanPWN

Dear ladies,

on December 16th from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm we will have our WCN Career Club:

Speaker:         Sophie Martre

Topic:              conflict management- In search for win-win solutions

We all experience conflict both at work and in our personal live. Conflicts arise for example because of values and goal differences in the company. Or someone feels taken advantage of.

Too often the conflict ends up with a winner and a loser. There is another possibility to solve the dispute. With the right techniques win – win solutions can be accomplished.

On the way to the goal: We need to understand the cause of a conflict, realize the warning signs, manage stress and anger. We have to look at our communication skills, be sensitive for our body talk and master self-control. This is the most successful way to avoid that the conflict escalates.

There is a simple technique with only four specific steps that allows a conflict solution in the early beginning of the dispute. With this awareness you will always work towards win-win solutions.

You will learn to:

Understanding conflict
Find your own conflict behaviour
Techniques for constructive conflict handling
Four steps to win – win solutions

Sophie Martre is a professional with over 20 years experience in innovation management, change management and people management with a strong focus on career development and life-long training. Her scientific background and her professional experience in various industrial sectors (as an innovation and management consultant) together with HR life-long education (HRTP Programme in Japan, MBTI Certification and coaching) allows her to bring polyvalence and a large international experience to her clients. She is competent in assisting clients along two lines: organizational development (team coaching, leadership and networking workshops) and personal and professional development (individual coaching, career coaching and training workshops).

You can register via the EuropeanPWN calender or send an e-mail to president_uv@wcnvienna.org.

Hope to see many of you there !

With best regards,

Christina Thomar & Ursula Vavrik
Co-Presidents WCN Vienna

October 14, 2009 | WCN Career Club - Career Design in Cycles

When:19:00-21:00

Where:
offices Binder Grösswang
Sterngasse 13
1010 Vienna, AT

Registration: EuropeanPWN

Dear ladies,

on October 14th from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm we will have our WCN Career Club:

speaker:        Mag.a Theresa Philippi

topic:             No more stereotypes: Career design in cycles!

Currently, professional career models are linear, strict and hierarchical. They are based on the traditional stereotypes of partnership with one breadwinner and one who cares for the family. The workforce, however, feels an increasing need for individual, "tailor-made", career design which allows for phases of more and less intensive work. The reasons are diverse: Reconciliation of work and family life such as raising small children or caring for an elder relative are the most common. Yet, there might be other reasons like the need for a sabbatical, time for additional education and many more.

The idea of a career design in cycles would allow for more flexibility in workload, pace and the hierarchical position. In a cyclic career, employees should have the chance to get top positions earlier in their life, be able to step down and be coming around in the next phase.

Theresa Philippi has a background in law. She is deputy program manager of the task force implementing the electronic health record in Austria , focusing on legal questions in data protection, patients' Rights and IT. Theresa devotes parts of her private time to pro bono work, namely in women's organisations. Her idea of a cyclic career design was nourished by many discussions on the reconciliation of private and work life and from her own experiences in professional life.

Should you wish to visit her website for further information you can do so at www.theresaphilippi.at.

To avoid unneccessary burocratic work please register and pay online via the EuropeanPWN calender or ( if this isn´t possible for you ) send an e-mail to president_ct@wcnvienna.org.

Hope to meet many of you there !

With best regards

Christina Thomar & Ursula Vavrik
Co-Presidents WCN Vienna

September 9, 2009 | WCN Career Club - Mentoring workshop

When: 19:00-21:00

Where:
Binder Grösswang
Sterngasse 13
1010 Vienna, AT

Registration: EuropeanPWN

This event is only for ladies who registered as mentors or mentees.
If you still want to register, please send an email to Caterina or Matanat ( addresses below ) !

Dear ladies,

the first mentoring workshop in the framework of the WCN mentoring programme will take place on 9 September 2009 from 7 pm - 9 pm at Binder Grösswang (Career Club location). 

During this workshop the mentors and mentees will work together to achieve the following objectives:

1. To set a frame of the mentoring project
   
2. To get agreement upon principles (group work activity)
   
3. To elaborate DO’s and DON’Ts for mentors and mentees (group work activity)
   
4. To get agreement on modalities of conducts: 
          i.      focusing on objectives 
         ii.      monitoring on progress
        iii.      providing regular and constructive feedback
   
   Please don’t hesitate to contact us for any questions you may have:
   
   Caterina Galea,             galea.caterina@yahoo.de
   Matanat Rahimova,       m2rahimova@yahoo.com

 For the fee of 10 € each member will receive one EPWN publication on MENTORING !

To avoid unneccessary burocratic work please register and pay online via the EuropeanPWN
calender or ( if this isn´t possible for you ) send an e-mail to president_ct@wcnvienna.org. 

Hope to see many mentors and mentees there !

With best regards,

Christina Thomar & Ursula Vavrik             Matanat Rahimova & Caterina Galea
Co-Presidents WCN Vienna                     Mentoring coordinators WCN Vienna

June 17, 2009, WCN | Career Club: Emotional Intelligence at Work

Topic: Emotional Intelligence at Work

Speaker: Dr. Candy Fresacher

Location: At Binder Groesswang, 1010 Vienna, Sterngasse 13 When: 17 June 2009, 19-21H

Emotional Intelligence at Work

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) are buzz-words for personnel seminars on a global basis.  Although developed in America, primarily by Dan Goleman, the main driving principal behind the idea of emotional intelligence is that unlike your IQ, emotional intelligence can be improved, so that training seminars can make a difference.  In addition, EQ, unlike IQ, is a bigger predictor of who will be successful in life.  Emotional Intelligence uses self-awareness; managing emotions through impulse control, and persistence; self-motivation; empathy and handling relationships as guideposts along the road to success.  In this session, participants find out what EQ is, if they have it, how to get it and how to use if effectively.

For the past 10 years, together with an Austrian business partner, Candy Fresacher manages her own small company which assists commercial enterprises in various fields of communication and tourism. Recently she has become involved in teacher training as part of her position as Chair of TEA (Teachers of English in Austria).  She also edits their ELT News, a journal designed to disseminate information about new teaching trends and ideas to teachers of English in Austria and abroad.

She received her B.A. and M.A. from California State University of Long Beach, and in 2006 her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna.  Born and raised in America, she has been living in Austria for over 30 years.  Before entering the teaching field, she held various office positions; including acting as research assistant, administrative assistant, advertising director and office manager in various businesses, including the United Nations. She has presented various topics at ECIS conferences as well as at other venues throughout Europe, Asia and America during the past twelve years.  Should you wish to visit her website for further information you can do so at www.fresachersigle.at or contact her at:

Dr. Candy Fresacher

FS Consultants Gauguschg. 8
2380 Perchtoldsdorf AUSTRIA
Tel. and fax:  +43 1 869 73 51
e-mail address:  c.fresacher@kabsi.at.

June 17, 2009, WCN | Digitalks Special –  Weib 2.0 – Frauen im Web 2.0

DIGITALKS Special

Diesmal ein Digitalks Spezial nur für Frauen, bitte die männlichen Interessenten von Digitalks nicht zu verzweifeln;) ab Herbst gibt es wieder Digitalks für alle!

"Toys for boys" ist ein Spruch dafür, dass Männer sich gerne technisches Spielzeug zulegen. Medien, Computer, Handys uvm sind noch immer männlich dominiert. Aber immer mehr Frauen gewinnen Raum für sich in den Medien. Vielfach gibt es noch Unsicherheiten, wie womit umzugehen ist, aber Vorreiterinnen geben die Zuversicht, dass es Sinn macht sich mit Medien zu beschäftigen und, dass es nicht nur für die eigene Weiterbildung und für das Selbsstbewußtsein gut ist, sondern auch noch Spaß macht!

Aus diesem Grund widmet sich Digitalks am 17. Juni unter dem Titel "Weib 2.0" einen Abend lang nur den Frauen und ihren Bedürfnissen und Hindernissen in den Medien.  Dazu werden 4 Vortragende aus ihrem Alltag berichten und ihre Werkzeuge und Strategien vorstellen.

DIGITALKS SPEZIAL / Weib 2.0 - Frauen im Web 2.0
Datum: 17. Juni 2009
Location: Museums Quartier Wien, Raum D /quartier21
Beginn: 19:30 Uhr, Einlass ab 18:30.

Vortragende sind Jana Herwig, Medienwissenschafterin, Sue Holzer, PR & Online Marketing Spezialistin, Ursula Seethaler, Kommunikationsberaterin und Meral Akin-Hecke, Digitalks Gründerin und Leiterin.

Folgende Themen stehen am Programm:

• was ist Social Media & was bringt es
• praktische Werkzeuge für den Alltag
• worüber sprechen Frauen in Social Media & wo sind sie vertreten
• wie können Frauennetzwerke sich in Social Media positionieren und Social Media für sich nutzen

Kommt zahlreich, bringt Freundinnen und Kolleginnen mit! Mit diesem Digitalks Spezial wollen wir noch mehr Frauen unterstützen, in Social Media aktiv zu werden.

Anmeldungen bitte ab jetzt hier!

Bis bald beim Digitalks

Meral Akin-Hecke

Digitalks - Netzwerk für digitale Medien

Mag. Meral Akin-Hecke Initiatorin

tel        +43-664-1032569
email     meral.akin-hecke@digitalks.at
web       http://digitalks.at
twitter    http://twitter.com/digitalks

May 27 , 2009 - Career Club | Conflict Management – In Search Of Win-Win Solutions

When: starts at 19.00 - 21.00H

Where: Binder Grösswang offices
Sterngasse 13
1010 Vienna, AT

Speaker:Susanne Schaaf

Registration: EuropeanPWN

Seminar „Conflict Management – In Search Of Win-Win Solutions”.

We all experience conflict both at work and in our personal live. Conflicts arise for example because of values and goal differences in the company. Or someone feels taken advantage of.

Too often the conflict ends up with a winner and a loser. There is another possibility to solve the dispute. With the right techniques win – win solutions can be accomplished.

On the way to the goal: We need to understand the cause of a conflict, realize the warning signs, manage stress and anger. We have to look at our communication skills, be sensitive for our body talk and master self-control. This is the most successful way to avoid that the conflict escalates.

There is a simple technique with only four specific steps that allows a conflict solution in the early beginning of the dispute. With this awareness you will always work towards win-win solutions.

 You will learn to:

Understanding conflict

Find your own conflict behaviour

Techniques for constructive conflict handling

Four steps to win – win solutions

Susanne Schaaf is expert for personal change, coaching, training, and development. She has a long experience as a trainer and systemic coach for communication and soft skills guarantees a high standard in training and consultation. In addition, she has been working as a manager for an export company dealing with Russia and as office manager for an IT solutions company.

April 29, 2009, WCN Career Club | Talent Is Overrated

When: starts at 19.00H

Where: Binder Grösswang Rechtsanwälte OG.
Sterngasse 13
1010 Vienna, AT

Registration: EuropeanPWN

Dear WCN members,

Talent

Few people are truly great at what they do. But why aren’t they? Why don’t they build businesses like Microsoft or play golf like Tiger Woods? Research shows that there is something that separates world-class performers from everyone else.

At the next Career Club, Betsy Hahn will present main concepts and lead a discussion on the business book “Talent Is Overrated”, by Geoff Colvin. You will learn

• why innate abilities may not be predictive of great performance,
  
• the real role intelligence and memory play in achievement and
  
• how to apply the principles of great performance in your life and in your organization.
  
  Betsy Hahn MBA, MA is founder and owner of ThinkBank. She is a licensed business and organizational consultant with over 15 years experience in marketing, communications and training. Betsy also holds a certificate from the Österreichisches Controller-Institute and has served on the Advisory Board of the Women’s Career Network for 7 years. She is a native English speaker who has lived in 6 different countries. In addition to ThinkBank, Betsy has a consulting practice for creative concepts and development. 

www.think-bank.at

Please register online or send an e-mail to president_ct@wcnvienna.org until latest April 27th.

Hope to see you there,

Christina Thomar & Ursula Vavrik
WCN Co-Presidents Vienna City Network, member of the EuropeanPWN

March 25, 2009, WCN Career Club | Money & HR

When: starts at 19.00H

Where: Binder Grösswang Rechtsanwälte OG.
Sterngasse 13
1010 Vienna

Speaker: Ursula Boehle

Registration: EuropeanPWN

Dear ladies,
Our speaker is Ursula Boehle:

She is a business professional in her early 40ies, a veteran in international management consulting, having worked with C-level executives for nearly 15 years.
Today she supports her clients in creating a competitive advantage (more value, less costs) based on world class people management. She combines her own
experience with the proven best practice of 50 most successful European companies.
Her clients are all over Europe.

On the topic:

Can you afford to waste up tp € 6,000 per employee per year?
That is – in a relatively small company of 100 employees – € 600,000 per year?
That’s the difference between treating Human Resources Management (HRM) as „Training&Co“ or making an effort to turn it into a competitive advantage for your company.

In our WCN Career Club Ursula will show you why it matters to turn „fluffy“ HRM into a hard facts based turbo for you company’s success.

We will explore the major business processes of HRM and how their success can be measured in real terms.

Power Point Presentation von Ursula Böhle

Looking forward to our WCN Career Club,

Christina Thomar & Ursula Vavrik,
Co-Presidents WCN Vienna City Network

February 23, 2009 - WCN | Career Club

When: 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm

Where: Café Landtmann-Biedermaierzimmer
Dr. Kal Lueger Ring 4
1010 Vienna, AT

Registration: EuropeanPWN or send email to president_ct@wcnvienna.org

Speaker: Mag. Meral Akin-Hecke

Meral Akin-Hecke is working as an online and mobile media consultant.
After her career at SAP Austria and ORF as a software consultant she initiated
the platform Digitalks in order to bring social media to a main stream audience
and to present in live sessions what is social media, how it works and how
everybody can use it.

Topic: DIGITALK

new media for new times: web 2.0, blogs, wikis, podcasts,
social networks brief overview, do’s and don’ts and future perspectives.

January 21, 2009 - WCN Career Club

When: 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm

Where: room at Club Alpha, Stubenbastei 12/14, 1010 Vienna, AT

Registration: EuropeanPWN or send email to president_ct@wcnvienna.org

Dear ladies,

about our speaker Ms. Hermine Arnold:

Commercial college

4 years of work as office assistant.

New orientation due to lack of fun, missing challenges, boring activities ...

Technical college (electronics and communications engineering)

New life starts ...

1) Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: development engineer

2) Joanneum Research / Industrial Image Processing: development engineer, project manager, group leader
in parallel: Fachhochschule Campus02, Automation Technologies

3) Atronic International: international project manager

4) Philips (now: NXP) Semiconductors: international product manager
in parallel: MBA of Intra- and Entrepreneurship, PEF Vienna

5) since July 2007: Arnold Consulting e.U. – The Innovation Agency

6) in parallel: lectorship at the Fachhochschule Kärnten for the degree programmes „Systems Engineering“ and „Business Management“

Several innovation awards.

Business:

Mission: To uncover and develop the innovation potential of SMEs in order to achieve sustainable success through innovation.

Activities: Creativity and Innovation - Coaching, Training, Consultancy, Project Support

Topic of presentation:

Sustainable Success Through Innovation.

Companies have to face numerous challenges in order to survive today’s difficult boundary conditions.

The key to success is to obtain a position of differentiation in the market and to achieve customer enthusiasm about our products / services.

A mighty fine way of differentiation is the differentiation through innovative power.

We are sure this will be an exciting evening for everyone !

Hope to see you there,

Christina Thomar and Ursula Vavrik
Co-Presidents WCN Vienna City Network, member of the EuropeanPWN

November 19, 2008 - BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY

When: 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm

Where: room at Club Alpha, Stubenbastei 12/14, 1010 Vienna, AT

Registration: EuropeanPWN or send email to president_ct@wcnvienna.org

BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY

Blue Ocean Strategy is a systematic strategy development approach "for making the competition irrelevant". It helps companies search for new market positions by creating new value propositions for a large customer base.

The book “Blue Ocean Strategy” was written by W.Chan Kim, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute and the Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD, France and Renee Mauborgne, the INSEAD Distinguished Fellow and a professor of strategy at INSEAD.

The book contains case studies and suggests approaches to creating "blue oceans" of uncontested market space ripe for growth. The book has sold more than a million copies in its first year of publication and is being published in 41 languages. During the presentation you will get familiar with the concept, analyse a case study and discuss ways of re-constructing market boundaries.

Matanat Rahimova will do this training section on strategy development.

Matanat Rahimova

Executive MBA (Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota & Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration); Expert Systems (PH.D., Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR)

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (programme/project management, strategy development, knowledge management; Senior Training Officer);

Preparatory Commission for Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (programme management – Training and Development; Training Officer);

UNICEF (programme planning and management, institutional development; Programme Manager);

Authorized Microsoft Training Center (IT training; Director);

Khazar University (management, lecturing; Head of Computer Science Department, Dean of School of Engineering and Science);

Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (research, lecturing; Researcher).

November 24, 2008 - WCN | Board/Steering Committee Meeting

When: starts at 19.30H

Where: TBA

Registration: EuropeanPWN

September 23, 2008 - Career Club | Optimizing Our Working Styles

Speaker: Dr. Brigitte Holzner

When: 18.30H-20.30H

Where: Club alpha, 1010 Wien, Stubenbastei/12/14

Registration: EuropeanPWN (for members 10? non-members 15?

Attention: limited number of participants

IDENTIFYING AND OPTIMIZING OUR WORKING STYLES

Our working styles are determining everything what we are doing: how we organise our work, how we manage our time, how we cooperate, and how we communicate.

Are we quick, perfect, strong, trying hard, or pleasing others? The psychological approach of Transactional Analysis helps us to identify five different working styles, which all have their benefits as well as constraints.

In this workshop we shall learn to identify those working styles, see which is our preferred style and shall get to know how they’re influencing our behaviour. We also shall discuss how we can optimize our way of working by consciously using a certain working style appropriate for a specific situation.

PROGRAMME:

Description of working style

What are the strong and weak elements of each style?

What is my preferred style?

My style profile

How can combine my major and minor working styles for optimizing my performance?
Dr. Brigitte Holzner is psychologist and development sociologist. She has a long-standing experience in teaching, research and consultancy in gender studies and career counselling. She has worked with problem families, social workers, expats, refugees, NGOs, university staff, development planners and policy makers. Most of her professional life she has spent in the Netherlands, some years in Indonesia, and since 2004 she lives and works in Austria.