Past Career Club
Last Update: 19.10.2009
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:
- To set a frame of the mentoring project
- To get agreement upon principles (group work activity)
- To elaborate DO’s and DON’Ts for mentors and mentees (group work activity)
- 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.
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.
