Last Update: 13.11.09
Upcoming Events in 2009
November 13, 2009 | Networking Event Vienna
When: 19:00-22:00
Where:
Salud
Johannesgasse 23
1010 Vienna, AT
Registration: EuropeanPWN
CHALLENGE YOUR CREATIVENESS
We all run out of ideas from time to time and experience uncreative moments. Meet us at Salud (http://salud.at/), a great, comfortable Latin American restaurant and bar in order to generate new ideas for your business and private life. A Cocktail Crash Course will be organized as well, meant to give you additional inspiration for bringing new ideas into your life. Listen to other WCN members and learn how they spice up their daily career and private lives.The reservation is under WCN at 7pm.
Please do not forget to register online for this event. Also feel free to bring your partners and/or friends. They need to be registered online as well.
Looking forward to seeing you! Dzenita & Vera
November 25, 2009 | WCN Career Club - Online Reputation Management
When: 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm
Where: Binder Grösswang Rechtsanwälte OG.
Sterngasse 13
1010 Vienna. AT
Registration: EuropeanPWN or send email to president_ct@wcnvienna.org
Speaker: Mag. Meral Akin-Hecke
Meral Akin-Hecke, business data processing specialist, 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: Online-Reputation Management
How do I develop my online-identity, how do I become important on the web? The first impression in the net counts, how can I get there successfully? How do I best network, do I have to be present everywhere? How do I strengthen my brand on the web? How to fruitfully manage online reputation?
You can register via the EuropeanPWN calendar
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
December 4, 2009 | WCN New Member Welcome Breakfast
Dear ladies,
new members who joined the WCN in the last three months and guests from
our last WCN General Meetings are very welcome to join the two WCN Co-Presidents
for a WCN Welcome Breakfast
on Friday, December 4th from 8.30 – 10.00
at WCN sponsor Starbucks
Mariahilfer Strasse 23 - 25
2nd floor
1060 Vienna
We will present you the main ideas of networking with WCN and EuropeanPWN :
Who are we, what are we doing, how is it all working?
This is a unique chance to get to know more about our association.
Come and meet other new members around a cup of coffee (or tea),
and ask all the questions that you like.
Let us know until Tuesday, December 1st who will join us.
Please sign up on the EPWN calendar or send an e-mail to angelapagani1@yahoo.com.
When you enter Starbucks, please mention WCN at the front desk,
grab a free drink and join us on the second floor !
Hope to meet many of you,
Ursula Vavrik & Angela Pagani
Co-President and Membership coordinator WCN Vienna City Network
December 7, 2009 | WCN General Meeting “Why Women Mean Business”
When: 19:30-21:00, networking cocktail 18.30H
Where:
Hotel Hilton am Stadtpark
Room Klimt
1030 Vienna, AT
Registration: EuropeanPWN
Speakers: Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, co-author of “Why Women Mean Business”
Christine Marek, Secretary of State, Ministry of Economics, Family and Youth
Leopold Seiler, CEO Seiler Asset Management
Dr. Handl, Public Affairs Director, Pfizer Austria
Moderator: Antonia Rados, RTL Chief Foreign Correspondent
Topic: Why Women Mean Business
Gender is a business issue, not a ‘women’s issue’
Never before has there been such a confluence of international attention to the economic importance of women. Their position as consumers, employees and leaders is being recognised as a measure of health, maturity and economic viability. They are becoming central to labour market solutions to the challenges of an ageing workforce, falling birth rates and skill shortages. Countries and companies are urgently seeking policies to enable women to fulfil their potential.
Why Women Mean Business takes the economic arguments for change to the heart of the corporate world. Women today are a majority of the talent pool and make up to 80% of consumer purchases. This powerful new book brings together in a single, concise volume the multiplicity of opportunities available to companies that really understand what motivates women in the global workplace and marketplace.
About the author:
Avivah is co-author of “Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution,” Wiley & Sons, January 2008 www.WhyWomenMeanBusiness.com and is the Founder and Honorary President of the European Professional Women’s Network (www.EuropeanPWN.net) one of Europe’s largest and fastest-growing such networks. She is a certified executive coach and spent several years as a Visiting Coach at INSEAD. She has spoken on leadership and gender issues across Europe and has had articles, reviews and interviews published in publications such as the Harvard Business Review, the International Herald Tribune and the Financial Times. Canadian, French and Swiss, Avivah has a BA from the University of Toronto, an MBA from INSEAD and completed the Women’s Leadership Program at Harvard. In 2007, ELLE
Magazine recognised her as one of the TOP 40 Women Leading Change. More
on www.AvivahWittenbergCox.com
About the panel speakers:
Secretary of State, Mrs. Marek,
http://www.bmwfj.gv.at/BMWA/Ministerium/Staatssekretaerin/default.htm
CEO Leopold Seiler, www.microfinance.at
Mrs. Dr. Handl, www.pfizer.at
Please kindly register via the EuropeanPWN calendar or send an e-mail to registration@wcnvienna.org. For non-members registration is obligatory; please indicate your name, organisation, function, and contact details. The registration voucher serves as entrance ticket.
Hoping to see many of you there!
With best regards,
Christina Thomar & Ursula Vavrik
Co-Presidents WCN Vienna
December 11, 2009 | WCN Christmas Party
When:18:30-22:00
Where:
Trattoria Sole
Annagasse 6-8
1010 Vienna, AT
Registration: EuropeanPWN
Dear members,
This has been a very exciting year: many of you have started new careers, managed to publish a new book, joined WCN mentoring club, met new friends in some of our meetings and collected many other nice experiences. WCN Christmas party will be a great opportunity to share all the achievements of this year with each other.
We would be very happy to see you at the Christmas party,which will this year take place in a very lovely Italian restaurant in the first district.
When: 11th of December 2009 (Friday) at 18:30
Place: Trattoria Sole http://www.trattoria-sole.at/
Where: Annagasse 6-8, 1010 Vienna (upper floor)
Please be kind to bring a small gift with you and be a part of a very entertaining gift exchange game. Partners and friends are very welcome, but please make sure they also prepare something small, so we all together experience lovely spirit of gift exchange.
An extra table has been reserved for all of you who would like to present your work: books, jewelry or any other precious projects you have been working on. It is a great opportunity to promote your valuable work!
WCN wishes you a very healthy and prosperous New Year and is looking forward to seeing you at the Christmas party!
Your WCN Steering Committee
December 16, 2009 | WCN Career Club - Conflict Management
When: 19:30-21:00
Where:
Hotel Hilton am Stadtpark
room Bruckner
1030 Vienna, AT
Registration: EuropeanPWN
Dear ladies,
on December 16th from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm we will have our WCN Career Club:
Speaker: Susanne Schaaf
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
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.
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 11, 2010 | WCN General Meeting - "Women Empowerment in Afghanistan"
When: 19:30-21:00, networking cocktail 18.30H
Where:
Hotel Hilton am Stadtpark
Room Mahler
1030 Vienna, AT
Registration: EuropeanPWN
Speaker: Antonia Rados
Topic: Women Empowerment in Afghanistan
After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the position of women in Afghanistan has radically changed. Women are now allowed to go to school and to work. Although the Afghan NATO - Mission has been criticised in many respects, one of the advantages of the presence of foreign troupes relates to the influence of the international community regarding the protection of women and law. What else can be done? How is empowerment working in daily life and is there any progress? And how to connect to women in a remote area and difficult country like Afghanistan?
About the Speaker:
Dr. Antonia Rados, born in Austria in 1953, is Chief Foreign Correspondent of the RTL Television, her field of expertise being reporting from conflict regions.
After studying in Austria, France and at the Johns Hopkins University for International Relations, she started her career in 1978 as a journalist working for the Austrian public broadcast channel ORF. Since then, she has been a correspondent in the USA and has especially been covering various conflicts, including in Kosovo, Africa, Afghanistan or the Middle East. Since 1991 Antonia has worked for German-TV, including ARD and ZDF, from 1994-2008 she headed the RTL office in Paris.
Antonia Rados is the author of several books and documentaries, some of her TV- work has been shown on ARTE ( “ Our friend Saddam”, “ Women in Afghanistan”). She has received numerous awards, including the “German Television Award” for her reporting on the Iraq - War as well as the prestigious “ Hanns - Joachim - Friedrichs – award”. She speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish and lives in Paris.
You are welcome to register via the EuropeanPWN calendar or send an e-mail to registration@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
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
A brand is simply an organization, or a product, or service with a personality. So why all the fuss?
Many people talk about it, everybody now uses the „brand‘ word, but very few know how to actually do it. From the point of view of a brand designer, Tina Feiertag explains what brands are, how to create them, how to make them work and how to substain them. Anybody who works for an organization, from the chairman onwards, is involved with its brand; anybody who lives in today‘s world is involved in branding.
Tina Feiertag is a design professional with more than 15 years marketplace experience; having concentrated on branding and working with some of the largest firms worldwide, including Siegel+Gale/New York and Interbrand/Zurich. She has lived and worked in Dortmund, Zurich, New York, and Vienna.
By combining flawless execution with innovative ideas, Tina‘s portfolio has grown to include a wide range of clients including Deutsche Telekom, Caterpillar, Johnson & Johnson, Boise, MoMA, OMV Future Energy Fund, and Social Service of Assistance Kharhov.
Besides corporate identity and brand assignments, Tina has had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects including packaging, exhibition design, signage, books, magazines, product design, web sites, credit cards, annual reports, and more.
Currently based out of Vienna, Tina works as an independent design consultant collaborating with brand teams, creative directors, strategists, naming professionals, writers, photographers, and clients to create unique solutions that are in alignment with brand strategy.
Inspired by working within the creative process at many different levels, Tina looks upon each assignment in fresh new ways: sharing ideas, brainstorming, sketching – a catalyst driving towards the end solution.
Tina holds a BFA degree from Art University Dortmund, and participated in an
exchange programm at University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Tina is fluent in German and English with basics in French.
www.tinafeiertag.com
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 27, 2010 | WCN Steering Committee Meeting
When: 19:00-22:00
Where:
Ursula ´s place
Vienna, AT
This working event is only for active members of the WCN Steering Committee, and this time also for the WCN Advisory Board !
Dear WCN members: we are meeting / working for you !
February 10, 2010 | WCN Career Club
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 galea.caterina@yahoo.de
Hope to see many of you there !
With best regards,
Christina Thomar & Ursula Vavrik
Co-Presidents WCN Vienna