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Volume 9, Issue 7
March 2010
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Mission of the American Business Women's Association:
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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Calendar of Events
RSVP for our next meeting
March 16, 6:30 pm
Mentor Meeting
Charlie's, Windsor
April 20, 6:00 pm
Dinner Meeting & Raffle Drawing
Charlie's, Windsor
May 18, 6:30 pm
Dinner Meeting
Charlie's, Windsor
June 15, 6:30 pm
Awards Night & New Officer Induction Meeting
Charlie's, Windsor
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Board of Directors
President:
Alicia Mutch
Vice President, Hospitality:
Judith Light
Vice President, Membership:
Diana Blakeley
Treasurer:
Debbie Wallace
Secretary:
Audrey Gondoli
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Message from the President
 Mentor MeetingWelcome to March! Once a year, we have a very special dinner meeting to honor our mentors. If you have someone in your life who has acted as a mentor for you, I invite you to bring them with you to our March meeting and tell us who they are for you. It's an opportunity to acknowledge these people for the impact they made in your life.
In recent years, as part of the mentor meeting, we have brought in speakers from various mentoring organizations to speak to us about what their organizations do for girls and for women. This year, Ruthe Browning from the Women's Global Leadership Initiative ( WGLI) will be speaking to us about building powerful high performing female teams. WGLI is a local and international mentoring organization that is "dedicated to
creating a community of women with the confidence and determination
to serve as leaders in personal, professional, community, regional,
and national spheres of influence." Our local chapter is collaborating this year with WGLI to funnel all of our scholarship winners into their mentorship program. This will ensure that women in our community not only receive well-deserved money for their schooling, but leadership skills and support as well. At our last meeting, we starting handing out the raffle tickets to sell for our Inspiring Women Scholarship Fundraiser. We have 500 raffle tickets to sell, and if we sell them all, we will raise $10,000 for scholarships at Sonoma State, Santa Rosa Junior College, and Empire College. If you missed the last meeting and want to help us sell raffle tickets, please email Jen Stark and she will get those tickets to you. The grand prize is a 100-bottle premium wine library with a 35-bottle refrigerated wine chiller, and we will be drawing the winner at our April 20th dinner meeting. We have a little over a month left to sell those raffle tickets. Let's do our best and raise as much scholarship money as we can! What You Missed Last MonthOut of last month's web design panel, I overhauled my website and optimized it for search engines. Now, my website comes up on page 1 of Google if you type in "Healdsburg Massage" or "Massage Therapist Healdsburg" instead of page 2. Brian and Mark both pointed out last month that a website is just a single part of an overall marketing strategy, but I think that's not bad for what I got out of that dinner presentation. Mark Gordon and Brian Kreck are both available for private consultations, and they can help you make your web presence come alive. See you soon! -Alicia Mutch
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Speaker and Topic of the Month
Creating High Performing Female Teams - Recognizing and Transforming Indirect Aggression between WomenAs women, we are culturally conditioned to be nice to one another and to avoid direct conflict. This cultural and social conditioning has taught us skills that are hurtful and very harmful to one another in the workplace. These behaviors include: gossiping, undercutting, sniping, and outright sabotage to name a few. With the need to create and sustain high levels of performance on our teams, as women leaders, we will benefit from learning healthier ways to address conflict in our fast-paced work worlds. We can learn and establish new pathways that surface and resolve conflict and hold the highest potential for good in one another. Come explore a topic that has created many a sleepless night for so many of us! Ruthe Browning, MABackground - Ruthe Browning, earned double BA's in Business Management and Health Care Administration from Saint Mary's College in 1999, then went on to complete her Graduate Education in Organization Development at Sonoma State University. Ms. Browning worked 23 years in various Managerial positions at Sonoma Developmental Center and is currently working for Kaiser Permanente as the Director of Risk and Patient Safety at Richmond Medical Center. Ms. Browning is a founding member of the Women's Global Leadership Initiative (WGLI), dedicated to teaching leadership skills to women through the development of mentoring communities. Ms. Browning is owner/operator for SpiralUp Consulting Services, specializing in helping leaders learn to lead with heart.
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Next Meeting -- March 16
Our next dinner meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 16 at Charlie's at the Windsor Golf Club. The address is 1320 19th Hole Drive, and it's located west off the Shiloh Road exit in Windsor.
We will be networking from 6:30 to 7:00, and our dinner meeting begins at 7:00. All members and guests are welcome.
If you would like, you may bring a bottle of wine with you to share with the group.
The price of the dinner meeting is $27 for members and $32 for guests. Dinner will be buffet style. To RSVP for the dinner meeting, please visit our website. RSVPs are due by noon, Friday, March 12th. You must make a reservation by the day before our meeting for us to guarantee you a meal. We love early RSVPs!
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Member News and Announcements
Announcement from Janet Codding:I am pleased to announce that NuSkin Enterprises has just completed it 32nd month in the row of record sales. NuSkin did 1.33 Billion wholesale dollars in 2009 and paid out over 560 Million dollars in commissions. Our stock on the New York Stock Exchange went up 142% in 2009. NuSkin currently is creating a new millionaire every 10 days and a new thousandaire every 60 minutes. Ageloc is a huge winner, reversing the signs of aging at the source, at the genetic level. Check it out at our new 7 minute video at www.nusoverview.com then contact Janet Codding at 843-7213 and/or janet@scanitjanet.com. |
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Wine Country Chapter #6504
American Business Women's Association
P.O. Box 164, Healdsburg, CA 95448
www.wineabwa.org
We appreciate your feedback! Please send comments, suggestions, submissions, and rants to Alicia Mutch. Please keep member news submissions to 50 words or less.
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