11.We had four radio programs back in the nineties but these days with the Internet we are interviewing members on video and presenting their stories on our website, on YouTube and offering the best presentations to the media.
12. Once the members get to know one another you will find they will network and learn from each another’s experiences in business. In Book 1, Mere Caesar an Adelaide member talks about how she met Clarissa O’Brien at an AEWN meeting and due to their meeting that day Mere’s local business developed into an international export company. She was sending live-stock to Saudi Arabia and timber for housing to other countries. The stories in these books are wonderful.
13.AEWN has excellent workshops and the Tomorrow’s Executive (five day course) for school leavers has always been an overwhelming success. You will find when you read the Membership Guide in this book, AEWN programs are listed.
14.As a Branch Co-ordinator you will become extremely well known in your local area as the media will be interested in the AEWN activities you are presenting. Most of our Co-ordinators owned their own small businesses or worked in full time positions as well as organising the local AEWN branch, because of the publicity they gained from AEWN it helped their own enterprises flourished.
The Word
EXECUTIVE
Means to Manage
So don’t be afraid to call yourself an “Executive Woman”,
many women are managing a home, family and a career.
Since 1968 Lucille Orr has been educating women, initially in her Key Punch Centres in three states of Australia where she trained women (because they were the only ones who could type) in key punch, data entry, word-processing and computer operating skills.
Since 1986 Lucille’s Australian Executive Women’s Network (AEWN) has assisted thousands of women to meet, exchange ideas, learn from one another’s career and business experiences and become successful enjoying an exciting and fulfilling lifestyle.
In 2000 Lucille joined the real estate industry and gained her own licences so she could start the first women’s real estate company - Australian Women And Real Estate (AWARE). She is now helping women invest in property enabling them to become independently wealthy.
In this guide Lucille provides you with an overview of how the AEWN has operated since 1986 and how you can become involved as a member or a co-ordinator of your own AEWN branch.
Due to technology we are becoming more and more isolated, operating our businesses from home and even working in corporate positions from our home computers. While we can communicate with the world today many will find the isolation unhealthy and for this reason Lucille would like to see small, individual AEWN groups starting all over the country so they can meet and learn from one another as well as communicating on Facebook, Twitter and others.
The Australian Executive Women’s Network MEMBERSHIP GUIDE
Whether you are female or male, the ways that women are changing the world will influence your education, career, marriage, recreation, next business venture, investments, election, or advertising campaign. If you are a woman, you need to know this is not the time to hold back: it is the time to go for it!
The balance has finally tipped in women’s favour.
Alongside the decadent abuse of male power another reality grows stronger every day. Millions of women, the world over, are taking economic and political power, building new institutions, infusing them with new, more humanistic values, saving the world or a part of it.
It is not about women taking over, but women and men together expressing their full potential – neither
superior nor inferior.
Women must form networks. If empowerment is the first attribute of women’s leadership, creating the organisational structure to foster it, is the second.
The leadership to which women now aspire requires
the age, experience and maturity of the wise-woman.
Quotes from: “Megatrends for Women” – written and researched by;
Patricia Aburdene & John Naisbitt (New York, 1992)
WHAT IS NETWORKING?
“The exchange of ideas and information, among people who share interests or causes.” World Book Dictionary
“A group of people who work together informally to promote common goals:
Thinking women may be rethinking the whole concept of (women – only) networks”
New York Times
Members of the Australian Executive Women’s Network (AEWN) believe networking is an opportunity to give. If you’re prepared to share your knowledge with others and they do the same, everyone gains. Each new person you meet has her own group of business colleagues, friends and relatives. If you learn to network effectively by exchanging business cards and recording information correctly, you can quickly expand your own base of personal and business contacts.
Networking has proven to be a most successful method of expanding a business in the 21st Century. People want to do business with someone they can trust who has been personally recommended. Through a network such as the AEWN you will meet people on a regular basis who become friends in business that you can believe in.
WHO ARE EXECUTIVE WOMEN?
The word executive means to manage. A manager is a person who carries out what she has decided should be done. World Book Dictionary
Are you a Manager? Do you make decisions at home or in business and carry them out?
If so, you are an EXECUTIVE WOMAN!
THE NETWORK – MISSION STATEMENT
To raise the status, self-esteem and recognition of women through a national information network which promotes, educates and supports women in business and the community.
THE NETWORK AIMS TO:
Promote a forum for professional and business women to achieve excellence.
Stimulate interaction between executive women and businessmen.
Foster an environment in which businesswomen can interact for mutual benefit and the benefit of women in general.
Educate young executives through communication of knowledge.
Recognise and reward women of achievement in business, the professions and the community.
WHAT THE NETWORK OFFERS YOU:
National Promotion: Your business services promoted nationally to other members and the public, through meetings, speaking competitions and the Internet.
The Telstra Business Women’s Award (previously the Telecom - Australian Executive Women of the Year Award): National nominate public recognition through the press, Internet, AEWN members and the national community. This prestigious award founded in 1987 by AEWN is now organised nationally by Telstra and we AEWN members who have achieved their goals to enter the award each year.
Books: A series of books titled The Net Result feature our AEWN members who have won an award. These books are assisting younger women in their Career Studies courses in High School, Universities, Business Colleges, and in the general community to learn from our AEWN members.
Workshops & Seminars: Informative business and personal development seminars and workshops are being held in all AEWN branches nationally to enable members of the Network to share their knowledge and experience.
The Results Club: Weekly an AEWN member who has succeeded in their career or business shares her story as a feature on the www.aware.id.au website, providing the member with international exposure.
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