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explored the new ABWA WIN Web site yet?
If you haven't yet discovered the valuable resources on the ABWA Women's Instructional Network (WIN), it's time you logged in and explored.
The board will soon start using the "Team" board to post documents and activities -- so don't get left out!
Here's how you start:
Use your e-mail address (the one you gave ABWA) and the password: Password1
You will be able to change your password as soon as you log in.
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TUESDAY, JULY 13 PROGRAM | |
 Down economy! Outsourcing! Lay offs! Gen Y! Gen X! Audiences are clamoring for ways to manage their issues. This interactive presentation reveals valuable insights and ideas to help employees, teams and leaders attain a higher level of success while managing the economic and business situations in the real world. The focus is on personal responsibility, dumping the entitlement mentality and improving self-awareness.
The Persian Room
17040 N Scottsdale Rd.
Scottsdale
(just north of Bell Rd.)
Networking - 11:15 - 11:45 am
Luncheon - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Lunch and Networking - $20 members / $29 guests
By Advance Reservation Only ($10 additional at the door)
Payable to:
ABWA-Scottsdale Express Network, 4397 W. Bethany Home Road, #1333
Glendale, AZ 85301 or Register Online Now
Contact Phone: 602-841-4024
Guests:
If bringing a friend at $20 each, please indicate both names if paying by check. |
| OFFICER GREETING! | |
 Message from your President,
Mike Hayashi, M.Ed.
Simple, short messages this month from author, Jeffrey Gitomer - I met him a few years ago and picked up his "Little Black Book of Connections" - which should be on your desk.
"All things being not quite so equal, people STILL want to do business with their friends."
"Rich relationships lead to much more than money. They lead to success, fulfillment and wealth."
"It's not who you know, it's who knows YOU!"
"The only difference between where you are right now, and where you'll be next year, are the people you meet and the books you read." -- Charlie "Tremendous" Jones (author of Life is Tremendous)
Do yourself a favor and join us July 13th at a new location, The Persian Room in North Scottsdale to hear our special guest, Marsha Petrie Sue, CSP. She is one of the most gifted speakers in Arizona who has a clear, powerful message for all people in business that you can't afford to miss this summer.
Remember: "A Woman's Place..... is in CONTROL!"
Register yourself and bring a guest to the next meeting - Tuesday, June 13 for another business-expanding 90 minutes.
Stay Healthy & Safe,
Mike Hayashi, President
ABWA-Scottsdale Express Network
Contact: (480) 221-0044 |
| THE SEN MISSION |
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The Mission of Scottsdale Express Network is: 
To provide a fun, supportive and nurturing environment to help our
professional members grow and prosper through networking, continuing
education, recognition and leadership opportunities. | | UPCOMING EVENTS | |
The Ecology of Transformation
presented by Joyce C. Mills, Ph.D.
 "When you know where you are, you'll know where you're going." Award-winning author of seven books, including Butterfly Wisdom and Reconnecting to the Magic of Life, Dr. Joyce C. Mills shows how we can discover exactly where we are in the process of change, how to overcome obstacles placed in our path, ultimately discovering how to live a balanced and joyful life.
In her uniquely captivating and spirited style, internationally recognized speaker, storyteller, author, and healer, Dr. Joyce creatively combines science, spirit, and metaphor showing how each of the four passages of the butterfly's development mirrors our inner journey and quest for full-winged emergence. Significant to her process, Dr. Joyce will share how the scientific secret of the butterfly's transformation relates to our inner gifts, skills, and soulful resources.
Sep 14, 2010
I Want More Clients Now!
presented by Loretta Love Huff
 Do you need more clients? Better clients? Do you feel like you're spinning your wheels with your marketing efforts? Would you like to make more money with less effort?
People in many businesses get the best results from active, time-dependent marketing strategies such as outreach, networking and referral-building rather than passive, money-dependent strategies such as advertising. Assess the effectiveness of your current approach and refine it to land new clients in this hands-on, interactive workshop.
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1. All members will serve as goodwill ambassadors for the American Business Women's Association.
2. Members will not allow their personal beliefs and convictions to interfere with the representation of ABWA's mission.
3. Members will always treat their member colleagues, guests, vendors and sponsors with honesty, respect, fairness, integrity, responsibility, kindness, and in good faith
4. Members will maintain compliance with ABWA National, Chapter and Express Network Bylaws.
5. Members will not use their personal power to advance their personal interests.
6. Members will strive for excellence in their professions by maintaining and enhancing their own business knowledge and skills, and by encouraging the professional development of other members. | | FAMOUS OR MEMORABLE? | |
In my management development program, "The New Management Reality," I lead participants through a simple exercise. I ask them to name:
The highest paid CEO's of the past 3 years
The winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature over the past 3 years
The last 3 winners of the The Academy Award for Best Actor
No one has ever gotten them all right. In fact, they can seldom name even one in each category and, if they do, they get the year wrong! Few of us can remember yesterday's famous (or infamous!) people past their 15 minutes of fame. What was reported on all the news channels and featured in full-color entertainment magazines quickly becomes yesterday's news.
The second part of the exercise is to create a different list altogether. I ask them to name:
3 teachers who had a positive impact during your school years
3 people who have been there for you during difficult times
3 people who make you feel valued, loved and appreciated
Ah, this is a much easier task; one we all have a wealth of experience and knowledge to draw from. The reason is very simple: the people who have the most profound and lasting impact in our lives are rarely the ones with the most money, the biggest names or the largest entourage. Instead they are those who saw something of value in us and made it their responsibility to bring it to fruition.
Great leaders have the ability to bring out the best in the people around them. They know that no one succeeds alone, that the journey, task or project is greatly enhanced with collaboration and mutual benefit. Rather than settling for infamy, they count the cost of the quick win or a sullied reputation and consider that cost too high. The greatest leaders are those who both provide value to and derive value from those they serve.
Yours for effectiveness,
Pattie Vargas
Building effectiveness through better business relationships!
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Pattie Vargas is a business consultant with The Vargas Group in California and is a candidate for ABWA District VI Vice President; elections to be held in Chattanooga at hte omen's Leadership Conference in October. |
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| | ANNUAL HUNGER KNOWS NO SEASON FOOD DRIVE | |  Let's Do Our Part to Help the Local Food Banks
The annual council hunger drive is drawing to a close. This is the last month for donations. Thanks to all of you who have contributed. I know the food bank really appreciates it.
Our goal was $500 in cash, 500 cans of tuna, and 500 jars of peanut butter. Sorry to say, we are not even close. I know times are tough, but can you afford to give an extra dollar to the drive?
Tuna and peanut butter are always on sale, you can often get tuna two for a dollar. One less Starbucks' coffee this month would go a long way to our reaching our goal. So, please bring your donations to this month's meeting.
This is really the only community service that the council is involved in each year, so please help. Thanks for all you have done and will do in the future.
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| NEW SEN OFFICERS FOR 2010-2011 | | |
New Officers Take Over August 1
 President, SAM, SAMSites, transNET Media.com
SAM says "Thank you for electing me president of SEN. I'm looking forwrd to a great year of more busienss for all of us.
I've been thinking -- what about a holiday party this year instead of a wine tasting? And what can we do to make our SEN website more valuable to you?
Tell me your thoughts."
OTHER OFFICERS
Vice President of Programming - Mike Hayashi
Vice President of Finance - Janet Maxwell
Vice President of Marketing - Lynn Ehmann
Vice President of Education - Donna Porntorno
Vice Presient of Membership - Donatella Zerial
Vice President of Communications - Donna Tucker
All positions can use some assistance throughout the year. Jump in and make the most of your membership. |
| ARC MEETING JULY 10 | |  Arizona Regional Council invites you all to the quarterly meeting July 10, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; lunch $20 (network will pay for your meal the first time you attend).
Desert Ridge Marketplace
Phoenix
(north of 101 on Tatum)
Program: Chapter / Event Marketing, specifically through social media
Agenda items:
- review of delegate responsibilities
- Chapter Leaders' Playground Reports
- Hunger Knows No Season tally
- Leadership Retreat Recap |
| For information about meetings or membership, contact VP of Communications, Donna Tucker: 602-788-3121.
We hope you enjoyed this issue of the SEN News. Send questions, comments or contributions to Donna Tucker 602-788-3121 ABWA-network@att.net
The ABWA mission: To bring together businesswomen of diverse occupations and to provide opportunities for them to help themselves and others grow personally and professionally through leadership, education, networking support and national recognition | |
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