Act Professionally

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Act Professionally

• BYU Management Society Leadership Conference
• Helena Hannonen
• October 4-5, 2007

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Goal

• Annual diversity goals
• Broad membership base
• Goals for specific groups
• Young professionals, women, non- LDS, non-BYU
  alumni, etc.
• Target 50 of chapters

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Problem

• People come to Management Society meetings and
  some time feel unwelcome or uncomfortable because
  of our jargon, insider conversations, and
  background.
• We want to make everyone feel welcome.

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Areas of Concern

• Casual dress for professional meetings
• No jeans, sweatshirts, etc.
• LDS Church jargon
• Ward hospital?
• Use of church titles, feel of a church meeting,
  etc.
• I am not a BYU graduate.
• BYU Football
• Sensitivity to graduates of various universities

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Act Professionally

• All members should clearly conduct themselves in
  a professional manner (not casual or
  ecclesiastical) through dress, speech, meeting
  agendas, etc.
• Members and leaders and culturally and socially
  aware of their differences and strive to make
  them strengths.

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Act Professionally

• Act with professional respect to include all.
• This is a professional society that addresses
  people and programs in a professional way.

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Act Professionally

• At the same time, the society is inclusive of
• Age
• Gender
• Nationality
• Ethnicity
• Career path
• Alma mater
• Religious affiliation

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Examples

• Silicon Valley Spanish Small Business and Job
  Search
• Job search skills in Spanish
• Be Smart firesides
• Target group - young students
• Silicon Valley W.O.M.E.N.
• Quarterly meetings for women, functional focus
  areas (HR, law, etc.)

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Diversity in Management Society

• What subgroups do you have in your society?
• What do you do to include everyone?

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Examples

• Orange County
• Young Professionals
• Executive Roundtable
• By invitation, senior executives, specific
  problems

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Examples

• Include members and board from different
  religious and ethnic backgrounds
• Speakers and topics that attract diverse
  population
• Female chapter presidents and board members
• Blue Ridge Virginia
• Seattle
• Salt Lake
• Los Angeles
• East Bay

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Looking into the Future

• What should we KEEP DOING?

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Looking into the Future

• What should we START DOING?

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Looking into the Future

• What should we STOP DOING?

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World Café

• What is ONE thing you would recommend to others
  that you or your chapter is doing?

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PROFILES OF

• Professional Dress
• Professional Language
• Professional Behavior