leadership

We work to expand the leadership capacity of our members to enable them to make influential contributions to their community locally, nationally and internationally. BPW believes that increasing the number and quality of women leaders improves our ability to make life better for all women.

Club President's Page

A growing membership is an indicator of a pro-active, market-oriented, forward-looking and caring management. With this in mind a Club President can improve her leadership skills as a member of BPW. Members meeting at the next International Congress in Lucerne, will discuss the theme "New Dimensions of Leadership".

Feedback from the Forum

Club Presidents, Secretaries and Presidents met together for an enjoyable working weekend. The following is one Clubs feedback from the Forum. Pease feel free to submit comments and feedback about the Forum and any photographs to technology@bpwnz.org.nz

Feedback re Leadership forum - February 20th to 21st held at Price Waterhouse Coopers Offices, 113 The Terrace

Attending - Jacqui Miles, Winsome Duncan (representing Kapiti) and Vanessa Simpson - Vanessa (in her capacity as National Treasurer).

There were approximately 20 Presidents, Secretaries and Treasurers at the meeting.
The Saturday started with a greeting from Angela our National President after which we all introduced ourselves and spoke briefly about this.

The business kicked off with an introductory keynote speaker - Pip Jamieson from Nelson who spoke about - "What's a Girl to do. The Glass Cliff", opening her address by asking if we knew the difference between the words Feminine and Feminist leaders.

Having jotted down our ideas, we were asked to first identify the words defining feminine leaders. The words that came out of this were passionate, inclusive, consultative, soft approach, gentle, personable, pacifist, natural.

For the words feminist leader, the words were strong, unafraid, aggressive, confrontational, overtly pro women, advocate for women's rights, logical, sequential.

Pip recently set out to determine if discernible differences did exist between a woman's feminine or feminist leadership styles in the hope of providing New Zealand women leaders the opportunity to understand and use a natural leadership style that is truly effective in today's turbulent economic times.

There is a book that you might like to read called the Leadership of the Sexes by Barbara Annis. An interesting discussion followed and questions were answered.

Angela led us through an exercise of finding out "who are we?" Using a series of questions we had to work out whether we were Doves, Owls, Peacocks or Eagles.

For the afternoon workshop we split into groups to look at Issues and solutions to problems within our club using our new knowledge of our personality types of Doves, Owls, Peacocks or Eagles.

For one of the afternoon sessions, a communications person gave us an overview for clubs to do a strategic plan.

Sunday - Back into our groups to discuss Roles and expectations within our clubs.
We then looked at the structure of BPW National, and International. The remits and how they go from club level to international level if suitable.

The afternoon concluded with "Moving Forward" and "Putting it all together".
An interesting weekend.

Leadership Forum

You can download a brochure giving you more information about the Leadership Forum to be held in Wellington 20 – 21 February 2010, as well as the Registration Form. Please circulate this to your club and put together your team of President, Secretary and Treasurer to attend

Brochure (PDF file 227kb)
Registration form (PDF file 92kb).

Wellington in February is one of the best places to be and this Leadership weekend is shaping up to be just that...especially given that you can spend some of it with other like-minded women to share and learn...and have some fun!

The keynote speaker, Pip Jamieson, is a real find. Pip has completed research around women in leadership and her findings will inspire you. Pip's style is interactive and the BPW NZ team look forward to sharing in the discussion with you. For more information download the attached file “What’s a Girl To Do – Feminine or Feminist Leadership in NZ today (Feb 2010).pdf (file attached)

The weekend is around learning about each other, sharing our issues and coming up with solutions. The Saturday workshops on communication and strategic planning will give you the tools to do those things with your club that you've always wanted to do but never quite managed. What you learn will help you in your professional relationships that you build in your paid work and unpaid work.

We have built a partnership with PriceWaterhouseCoopers who are providing the venue, providing professional support and also some of their women staff will join us. This is great news, and of course along with you, these PWC staff will add this to their CV.

The most important thing is that we all work together to support each other in achieving our goals – the BPWNZ team would love to see you in Wellington for the Leadership Forum so do come and join us for a weekend of learning, sharing and fun.

Please note there is billeting

Leadership is forward planning.
Leadership is to use your skill to its full capacity.
Leadership is a holistic approach.

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