Creating the best company ever

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• Creating the best company ever
• Humanity, Creativity, Crisis,
• Transformation,
• Women
• Wisdom,
• Action
• Mobilizing
• By Kristin Engvig

Zurich London Oslo Lausanne Tokyo
AbuDhabi New York Istanbul Rome Geneva
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Developing, empowering and connecting leaders
with a feminine, authentic and global vision
Vision
Evoking change to authenticity and raising
feminine and global awareness to create a
sustainable future includes inspiring success
based on individuality, cultivate authentic
leadership and encourage feminine ways of
doing business
Goal

• International Innovative
• Feminine Focused on opportunities
• Authentic
  Interconnected
• Practical

Pillars
W.I.N.s informal network joins over 18,000
professional women across 70 countries
close to 6000 leaders have attended the annual
W.I.N. Global Forum 35 percent return year
after year. Founded in Milan in 1997 - 60
partner womens networks
Network
Mission
Inspiring women worldwide
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A global leadership journey for modern women
today

• 1998 Winning Strategies for Women in the Era of
  Globalization
• 1999 Winning Strategies for Women Working
  Internationally
• 2000 Sustainable Strategies for Women in the
  Global Era
• 2001 Women Leading Global Change
• 2002 Women Building Partnerships Across
  Boundaries
• 2003 Connecting People to Create Impact
• Connecting for Results authentic leadership in
  action
• Leading for the future..
• Courage to be the change
• Taking the next step
• Vision and Vitality
• Wisdom in Action

Milano
Lausanne
Geneva
Roma
Oslo
Barcelona
Prague
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Activities and the conference W.I.N. Global
Conference
Who attends the Conference
W.I.N. participants are

• influential decision makers
• opinion leaders
• keen to learn and embrace change
• internationally minded
• culturally aware
• W.I.N. Global forum - a visionary learning event,
  designed to inspire, develop, empower and connect
  working women from around the world.

Sponsor, Speakers, Participants, Team
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Why women ? - opportunities
Competitiveness of entire nations better in
countries where female participation is high
(World Economic Forum, WEF, 2006)
Bigger talent pool   Best place to work , top
company ratio of female managers to ratio of
total stuff high. Average 26 of female managers
and senior managers are women in those firms
versus 12 in others (Europe) Financial Times
Womens health improves when women spend time
with other women (Harvard, Nurses Health Study
from Harvard Medical School )
Companies with high representation of women in
their senior management had a higher return on
equity and 34 higher return on shareholders
investment(vs. Companies with lowest
representation) ( Catalyst )
Source The Economist, Financial Times, World
Economic Forum reports
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Why women ? - opportunities
Women contributed more to economic growth than
both new technology and giants such as China and
India in the past decade.
80 of consumer buying decisions are done by
women
In the developed world Women better educated than
men (US university 140 women to 100
men, Sweden 150 women to 100 men)
60-80 of jobs in export industries in Asia,
executed by women ( source The Economist, 06)
Source The Economist, Financial Times, World
Economic Forum reports
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The best company ever
What are the leaders Organizations of the
future?

• Care, share and create positive results
• Being and doing
• Efficiency and resilience
• Targeted and unfolding
• Pushing and attracting

Learning Innovation are key and we ask
How do we create the context and learning
environments that evoke change and foster
innovation ? What needs to be created for
learning and growth to take place?
What about women can they really have it all?
How can women fearlessly stake out their own
journey, listening within and gracefully consider
the outside? Finding vitality Having the
energy Learning, growing, Meaning, and making a
living
The questions of the moment and the themes of
time
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From inspiration to realization
Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin
it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Goethe
Forget China, India and the internet economic
growth is driven by women. The Economist, April
12th, 2006
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed,
its the only thing that ever has. Margaret
Mead
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Creating throughNetwork and Networking
Ideally a nurturing environment/system in which
one can flourish Creating purposeful and
pleasurable relationships for mutual benefit.
Involves hearth, stomach and intellect
Network / Working Net
Networking
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DefinitionsWhat Networking is NOT

• some sceptics say that networking is about
• Chatting
• Cynicism playing the career game
• Politics
• Something that takes time away from getting the
  job done (1/5 time spend on networking by
  successful leaders and entrepreneurs)
• Self-promotion in the negative sense, women
  worried about pushing themselves ahead of others.
• Quantity connection and firing business cards at
  each other..
• Feminists and male haters (when talking about
  womens networking)

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Networking With Purpose

• Consciously building purposeful relationships
• Cooperative activity where we build a community
  and find common purpose
• Meeting with people who help to clarify your own
  purpose and you again can help others clarify
  theirs
• Not about hierarchy or competition. It is all
  about sharing purpose, information, ideas,
  language, resources, opportunities

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Networking With Pleasure Joy

• Consciously building pleasurable relationships
  and making connections
• having fun and meeting people with joy
• seeking to add pleasure and looking for
• what lights up the other
• being with people and in situations
• that make you light up
• giving and receiving self-confidence,
• assuring others become brilliant and
• becoming brilliant yourself
• Taking responsibility for creating magic and
  inclusive environments by uplifting those around
  you

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Creating a Network

• Who to include
• Clarify why you want the network
• Surround yourself with sustainers, believers and
  champions..
• 4) Develop different relationships and
  sensibilities
• 5) Setting
• Building and nurturing a
• Network

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how

• (1) Be open to learn more open
• (2) Be ready to connect - introduce yourself
  well and clearly
• (3) Be quick to contribute state your
  need/help others
• Be ready to take risk courage to be you
• Commit
• Dont accept unacceptable
• Expect magic and be prepared to have fun
• With Clarity, Kindness and Humour
• EtiquetteIntroduce people, Acknowledge
  introductions, source

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Tips for Networking

• Maximize group/networks objective
• Think about possible reasons for why others are
  here
• What is your women s networks objective
• Finding common purpose, get ready to mobilize
  social capital

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Tips for Networking

• Be open to learn more open Dont judge
• Be aware of what you already know , yes but,
  being right
• Consider this and that
• Let yourself receive new opinions, knowledge and
  attitudes freely
• Become sensitive
• Become still - receive

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Tips for Networking

• Be ready to connect

• Introduce yourself well and clearly
• Who you are and what you do, what else about you
• Make sure people can find you business card with
  email, phone, address etc.
• My advice
• Exchange experiences at different levels work,
  home, interest.
• Share your dreams and passions, even your
  fearshead, hearth, belly be friendly.
• What is the most exciting project you are working
  on these days? Try to establish common grounds

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Tips for Networking
Be quick to contribute

• Ask for help
• What do you need, what is your dream? Share your
  need
• Dont know what you are looking for ? Maybe
  someone can help
• Others will value what you offer
• Be generous giving out information
• Be clear, kind and helpful, believe in yourself!

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Tips for Networking
Be quick to contribute

• Be ready to help others
• Find opportunities to be the solution to
  someones problem
• Introduce another person who can help
• Include and introduce others - dont let someone
  stand alone

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Tips for Networking
Be ready to take risk

• Dare to express that need, that desire, test the
  new approach
• Step outside familiar comfort zones
• Take a chance
• Find the courage to connect with people for
  mutual benefit.
• Be yourself
• You can do it!!!!!

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Tips for Networking
Be prepared to have fun and expect the unexpected

• It is about people
• Remember the  light up  principle
• Share your excitments
• Have fun and expect the unexpected
• even in unexpected places.

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Etiquette

• Introduce people
• When introduced, thank people for an introduction
• Acknowledge the source of your contact

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Mobilizing People

• 1) Sharing the basics
• Who you are
• What you do
• Something else about you
• Where to find you
• 2) Networking with purpose and pleasure
• A need you may have, a dream, a desire..

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Thank you !!! W.I.N. 2009 Global Leadership
Conference 8 10 October Prague, Czech Republic
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