Exclusive tour of the impressive headquaters of football FIFA and lunch at Hotel Zürichberg with a sensational view over the scenic city of Zurich, the lake and the alps.
Book here: http://www.womentravel.ch/discover-switzerland/bpw-tour-exclusive-fifa-visit
Price: CHF 95.-
After the opening of the conference at the university of Zurich on 30.09.2016 around 22h we would like to take you out for a glass of Swiss wine. Come along, enjoy and relax in our wonderful city.
We will meet after the opening at the university and go on a walk to a nice place to have a drink together.
Pls. send us an email with your name and address and we will contact you.
Registration here - limited places available
INTRODUCTION
After the United Nations had been founded in 1945, IFBPW sprang into action and made its request for consultative status along with 32 organizations which was granted by ECOSOC in 1947. Esther Hymer went on to lobby for the establishment of a special body to prevent or eradicate all kinds of discrimination against women. This was granted and a sub-commission on the Status of Women was set up. However, it could be possible to say that the roots of our advocacy efforts based upon the consultative status in the United Nations. And successful advocacy activities are important for our Organization to change with the times and gain strength.
Diversity – Zeit für Veränderung
Über die Kooperation des BPW Germany mit Unternehmen
Eine neue Generation verändert die Arbeitswelt. Selbstbewusste Frauen mit großen Fach- und Sozialkompetenzen suchen sich zunehmend das Unternehmen aus, in dem sie arbeiten wollen. Unternehmen müssen einen kulturellen Wandel vollziehen, wenn sie hoch qualifizierte Frauen einstellen und an das Unternehmen binden wollen: Beweglichkeit in Arbeitszeiten, Elternzeiten, Frauen in Führung, neue Akzente in der personellen Weiterentwicklung und Gehaltstransparenz sind nur einige Themen.
Diversity ist eine Erfolgsstrategie für die Zukunft jedes Unternehmens, das eine Kultur schafft, in der es gelingt, hoch qualifiziertes Personal in seiner Unterschiedlichkeit zu gewinnen, zu fördern und zu halten. Unternehmen, die auf Diversity setzen sind erfolgreicher als andere.
Eine gute Kooperation zwischen einem Unternehmen und einem international aufgestellten Business-Frauennetzwerk wie BPW kann den Nutzen und Erfolg beider Seiten durchaus beflügeln. Der Workshop zeigt, wie beide Seiten von einer gelungenen Kooperation profitieren.
Rosemarie Steinhage war von 2012-2016 Vizepräsidentin des BPW Germany. Sie hat Kooperationen und Projekte mit Unternehmensmitgliedern durchgeführt. Im Workshop berichtet sie über ihre Erfahrungen, über Kriterien für eine gelingende strategische Zusammenarbeit und zeigt den Nutzen für beide Seiten auf.
Samstag; 1. Okt. 2016 von 11-12.30 h
workshop in german
Rosemarie Steinhage
Coaching – Training –Organisationsentwicklung
Vizepräsidentin des BPW Germany 2012-2016
Fon + 49 611 9 81 29 06
www.rosemarie-steinhage.deWorkshop in german
Our World Café – ‘Empowered Parents, Prosperous Organisations’ is an experiential workshop which provides a powerful space to evoke new conversations and perspectives around the topic of parenthood & professional life, enriching the possibility for new insights to emerge as participants engage in ever-widening circles of thought.
We will be hosting a network of collaborative conversations around questions that matter in service of this topic:
Un projet - Une réalisation - Une vie
Le workshop débutera par la présentation du projet développé au Népal :
Construction d’écoles et d’un centre de santé
Cette présentation se fait grâce à un document Power Point (en préparation pour cet événement). Il durera environ 40 minutes et abordera les points suivants :
Historique : pourquoi ce projet ?
Compétences acquises
Constructions
Développement des activités depuis 20 ans
Si le temps accordé le permet, ce premier document sera suivi d’une vidéo d’env. 20 minutes, rendant vivantes nos activités sur place
Une discussion de 30 minutes suivra la présentation, abordant toutes les questions soulevées par le PP
Workshop : How to make equal pay a reality in companies
Currently, the gender pay gap is 16.1 % in Europe and 15.1% in Switzerland. Many voices have asked for equal pay to become a reality - President Obama, Hollywood actors, even … Pope Francesco who said the gender pay gap is a “pure scandal”. Several governments have set equal pay as a priority and taken active measures to enforce it. In Switzerland, the government has actively supported various initiatives both from the public and the private sectors and is working on a law to enforce control for companies.
Given this context, companies are encouraged to take a stand for equal pay to show they take this issue seriously before governments force them through legislation.
EQUAL-SALARY - certified companies have taken up the challenge and proven they adhere to equal pay. As ambassadors, they inform and engage their colleagues into taking a stand for equal pay!
The workshop will allow discovering the EQUAL-SALARY certification requirements, benefits and potential pitfalls. Laetitia Tierny D&I Manager at Philip Morris Int’l (PMI, the first EQUAL-SALARY certified multinational company, will describe how PMI has taken on the challenge and the next objectives. See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foz7R7EXdvs&feature=youtu.be
How to Create and Make a Cosmetics Brand Successful
Jacqueline Piotaz, Founder and Developer, presents how she successfully created and launched her own luxury niche Swissness pure cosmetics brand. Learn more about what it takes for a small family-owned Swiss business to stand up against multi-national luxury conglomerates.
Participate actively in the workshop about what the next steps could or should be for Jacqueline Piotaz Switzerland and finally - ask the expert all your questions about skin care, prevention, new technologies and innovations in cosmetics, you always wanted to ask.
New ways of working and flexible work arrangements are current issues and with them a new understanding of work-life patterns and what leadership is. But what do „new“ working models entail? How can leadership responsibility be shared?
Background information about definitions of leadership and common gender roles will be presented as well as an overview of the innovative work-organizational Model TopSharing developed by Julia Kuark. Decisions of the participants will be analyzed interactively and potential for shared responsibility identified.
There are different reasons women are still underrepresented in the top management of organisations. In this practical hands-on seminar, we will focus on personal change: what women can do to bring about change- to be elected to corporate boards. We will explore opportunities to make changes in professional careers and onto boards. In the course of this seminar, we will analyse a case study and share the best practices for success. Every participant will leave the seminar with a personal development plan.
Danube net Forum in Pula 4-5.November 2016 www.bpw-danubenet.org
The 10th Forum of the BPW Danube net will be held in Pula-Croatia on 4-5. november 2016 under the patronage of the President of the Rebublic of Croatia. The short presentation informs theaudience about the actuel status and achievements that the Forum will obtain for the women entrepreneurs. Over 100 entrepreneurs from 10 countries are expected on the Forum.
Increasing the Number of Women in Leadership Positions – What makes a Difference?
16.15 Input Gudrun Sander “Inclusive Leadership – Does this help?” (30’)
16.45 Input of Simon Owen, CEO Deloitte Switzerland, on “How he made a difference? What where the major changes that had an impact on a more inclusive culture where the number of women in leadership positions was significantly increased” (30’)
Deloitte UK is a WEPs CEO Leadership Award winner and Simon Owen was part of this TMT17.15 Q&A session
Presentation 1 - about the activities of Business and Professional League of Women of Ukraine "Experience and Perspectives",participation of Chernihiv BPW Club in the project "Strengthening Small and medium Enterprises Business Membership Organizations", participation in United Nations Development Programme (Iuliia Zaika),
Presentation 2 - "Helping people in need", about training programmes and support of internally displaced people from Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine,
small projects proposals for cooperation (Victoria Filatova)
Presentation 3 - "Peculiarities of the activities of Donetsk BPW Club"
Peace Doves" mini workshop
Butterfly In A Storm is not just another nice book about a woman's life among many others. Nor is it a heroic biography to distract us from our real life with our real joys, sorrows, hopes and delusions, to comfort us that in the end, our own life is good enough, that we shouldn't grasp for the moon. It is not one more boring lesson telling us how we ought to conduct our lives.
In Butterfly In A Storm unfolds the fascinating life of both a very special and an ordinary woman, Giselle Rufer Delance - the powerful entrepreneur and founder of the ultra chic Delance Swiss Watches for women, the fighter, the mother, the friend. As we follow her story, we get enthusiastic when as a child, Giselle, so alive and determined, spreads her thousand ideas and talents like wings; we admire the teen when she dares to cross the line of the so conservative and provincial Swiss society conventions of the fifties; we suffer with the young adult when fate persists to cut her momentum off, tries to kill her vision and forces her to put her ambitions on hold; and we applaud when eventually success and fame reward the exceptional destiny of the mature woman.
The historical context of her life had a great bearing on the course her life took. Giselle was born 1946, one year after Second World War ended. Her very young parents had fled from Paris during the Second World War and settled as immigrants in the nice, French-speaking borderline provincial town of Porrentruy. They brought in a different, metropolitan culture. They knew how much their relatives had suffered at war and were strongly determined to make their own living by working hard. Giselle's father was a salesman and travelled a lot but was very supportive of his wife who ran a shop and of his daughter. However, Mother was the boss. Both her maternal grandmothers had been strong, independent women. Thus the young girl had three interesting role models, especially at such time when the Swiss women they were surrounded with were so different; they stayed at home and under their husbands' shadow.
In her story, Giselle teaches how necessary women's commitment for a better world is. How important their intelligence and skills are on all levels. She shows women, young and old alike, the way, or, better put, her way: to stand up for what they think is right and good, to go on again and again; to search for a better solution, if the first trial is not effective. She encourages women to think out of the box; to develop a vision, together with others, if they want to make a difference in the world; to share, to support others, but also to be a good friend to themselves; to fight, not to hate, to love, to live and to enjoy all of it.
The «Child marriage» is a serious violation of human rights and we cannot allow it.
Statistics show that a girl under the age of 18 is married every three seconds – that is, 10 million underage girls are married each year – most often without her consent and most likely married to an older man.
Most recent research on child marriage in Africa shows that most national governments in the region are either not aware of the seriousness of the issue, and/or have not prioritized child marriage as a serious problem that has far reaching impacts on health, education and economic development indices.
There is therefore an urgent need for self-efficacy training programs to change mindsets fettered by entrenched poverty, cultural norms/ religious beliefs and deeply rooted in patriarchal tradition.
I think it is our duty to help the large amount of children in the world who are victims of violence and are forced into early marriage. Today the problem exists even in Europe, in fact we have many migrants from African countries and from countries in war and sadly this practice is implemented.
I think it is necessary to raise awareness among governments and at the same time to promote the education and the empowerment among young women.
I think is very important realize a cultural change through training, and I think it is the best strategy to fight the problem.
I conclude this brief report with one thought: to be members of the BPW International should lead us to work to build a stronger, more meaningful and more prosperous society. A society built on the commitment, innovation, promotion of the economy at the same time has to take care of the less fortunates, and promote equity with respect for diversity. We all strongly called to promote the empowerment of women to achieve equal opportunities in all spheres of society
Atelier participatif qui permet de se familiariser avec la posture de l'Acrobate.
L’enjeu majeur de la femme d’aujourd’hui est de maintenir un équilibre
avec soi et auprès des préoccupations personnelles et professionnelles.
Explorons ensemble les caractéristiques de l'acrobate et l’importance de l’agilité.
A travers un processus basé sur le partage, la créativité et l’apport d’outils pratiques,
vous allez vivre un moment marquant qui va vous permettre de créer une nouvelle souplesse mentale.
We will share with the attendees what has been done in Turkey regarding WEP. Success stories and the future plans will be shared with the participants also in order to exchange ideas how we can develope nationally and internationally that WEP principles are accepted at the CEO level and adopted into the company's strategies.
In my speech I will highlight the important revolution that is experiencing Italy in the women's leadership and the great opportunity provided by law 120/2011 (so called Gulf-Moscow law) imposing an obligation for listed companies and those in control public authority to appoint the members of its Board of Directors and statutory auditors so that it is guaranteed to have at least 20% of the less represented gender on the first renewal and at least 33% by 2015.
The term of effectiveness of law 120/2011 is set for 2022. This term will be sufficient to implement a real cultural and social change ?
The Women represent a value positive for the economy and contribute substantially to the business and economic growth (womenomics).
The relationship between women's presence and performance of companies is a crucial theme in the debate on the effects of gender quotas.
I will highlight the experience of Norway, a pioneer country in the introduction of gender quotas (in 2003 the law has set the minimum to 40% of women's participation in governance bodies of companies listed on the stock exchange) where the law was effective for increase the number of women on boards. However, the effects of quotas on reducing gender gaps (especially in the labor market) and on the company's performance are unclear.
Italy, a country with a persistent condition of strong economic disparities between men and women, with the introduction of the law bipartisan -120 / 2011- on gender shares is a particularly interesting case study: Italy an example to follow for the rest of Europe.
Therefore we must to support the adoption of similar laws at the level of other EU countries and commit itself to promoting specific training the removal of stereotypes for which the woman would not be scope for finance and the economy.
BPW Cyprus is looking forward to attending the BPW International conference
in Zurich and is delighted to be able to present a workshop under the title of
‘Women, the driving force behind the economic recovery in Cyprus’
During the workshop we will present and discuss the following points:
· Brief introduction to the main pillars of the Cyprus economy
· Main factors that led to the financial crisis in Cyprus
· The collapse of the economy in March 2013
· How women across our society responded to the challenges of 2013
· The significant contribution of women to the economic recovery
As the global financial crisis affected most countries, we believe that this
subject will resonate with other BPW members and provide a valuable
opportunity to share our experiences.
Wohin gehen Sie heute arbeiten? Flexible, ortsunabhängige Arbeitsformen schaffen in vielerlei Hinsicht eine win-win-Situation: Sie steigern Motivation und Produktivität der Mitarbeitenden, erweitern das Rekrutierungspotential für Unternehmen und tragen zur effizienten Nutzung verfügbarer Ressourcen bei. Als moderne und attraktive Arbeitgeberin unterstützt die SBB diesen Wandel, der es den Mitarbeitenden ermöglicht, ihre Arbeitstage selbst zu gestalten. Fazit: Work Smart ist bei der SBB auch nach 4 Jahren für viele Vorgesetzte und Mitarbeitende noch ungewohnt. Der kulturelle Wandel hat zwar eingesetzt, Präsenzorientierung ist aber noch stark spürbar. Was für die einen längst ein Segen ist, sorgt wenige Schreibtische weiter noch für Unbehagen. Warum ist Work Smart trotz geeigneten Berufsbildern noch nicht gelebter Alltag? Welche Herausforderungen müssen bei der Einführung flexibler Arbeitsformen beachtet werden und wie können Räume und Technologien dabei unterstützen? Was ist mit den Befürchtungen vor Teamgeistverlust oder Missbrauch der Arbeitszeit? Kurz: Welche Chancen und Risiken birgt Work Smart für Mitarbeitende und Unternehmen? Gemeinsam finden wir in diesem Workshop auf Basis unserer Erfahrungen hilfreiche Antworten.
Young members will be divided into small groups of 5-7 people and each group will be assigned a mentor (according to the interests and aspirations of the young members). The allocation of mentors will be done before the conference in order to be given adequate time for them to prepare.
The mentors will give customized advice to their group in a "speed mentoring" session to help them with their future endeavors.
Pinella was National President of BPW Italy in the biennium 2007-2009 . She will explaine you the secrets to recruit and mantain BPW members , to involve them, to develop interest, enthusiasm and love to BPW Clubs and Federations - the secrets that made BPW Italy (Fidapa) a big Federation .
BPW Valletta Malta could never take part in the Equal Pay Day activities as in Malta, the law for Equal Pay has been in place for years. But notwithstanding this, we have low numbers of women participating in high work positions. At one of our Board meetings, it was decided to try and reach young girls just before they do their school leaving exams and try and organise a mentoring morning - BPW Careers Day. One of our members was the Assistant Head of one of the best schools in Malta, and we tried a pilot project with just this school - 90 girls with 25 women mentoring the girls. It was immediately clear that this was going to be a huge success. Two months later we had another mentoring session with 110 girls from the Malta Girl Guides with 40 women mentoring the girls. We immediately felt that we should begin to organise larger mentoring sessions. The feedback we were getting from schools, teachers, parents and even the girls themselves was astounding. In 2015 we organised another BPW Careers Day, with 300 girls from four schools with 110 women coming to mentor the girls. And this year we had over 800 girls from 11 schools with 250 women coming to be mentors. We are planning an even larger one for 2017.
This is a very strong and effective way of reaching young girls and get them to meet not only with women who have reached their potential but also with women on their way there.
During this session, we can discuss BPW Careers Day and you can see how you can incorporate it in your yearly calander.
Stephanie Falzon
President - BPW Malta
A lot has been said about Diversity & Inclusion as a business imperative and that everyone in his or her individuality is diverse. However, how can we leverage our differences to increase the success of our business? Deloitte Business Chemistry is an exciting and easy to use tool to help you get the best out of a diverse team and to strengthen your relationships with clients or co-workers. Understanding business chemistry helps to shift our unconsciously or consciously biased thinking to a real understanding what diversity of thought means in reality. Learn in this session how to easily strengthen your business relationships and to get the most out of your diverse environment.
Equal Pay, Women on Board – ein harter Kampf, aber wir schaffen es!
Doch was machen, wenn die Schuhschränke nicht mehr aufnahmefähig sind und die Taschenregale ebenfalls keine Kapazitäten haben?
Vermögen aufbauen, daran sollten wir ebenfalls denken!
Frauen und Finanzen – nicht immer ein Thema was auf Interesse stößt und dabei kann es so schön sein.
Gerade in der heutigen Zeit, wo sich die Frage stellt: Wann würden wir eigentlich zur Bank gehen und unser Geld wieder mit nach Hause nehmen, weil es ökonomisch verwegen wäre, das hart verdiente Geld auf dem Konto zu belassen?
Wie schafft Frau den Spagat – einerseits Chancen zu ergreifen, ein Vermögen aufzubauen und andererseits dieses dann in Sicherheit zu wissen?
Mit verzinslichen Anlagen allein lässt sich ein Vermögen dauerhaft nicht mehr erhalten. Sachwerte bleiben weiterhin alternativlos. Doch wie funktionieren die Märkte und wo ergeben sich noch Chancen?
Ein kleiner Exkurs in die Welt der Kapitalmärkte.
Zur Geschlechtergeschichte der UZH: Frauenstudium, Gleichstellung und Architektur
Die Abteilung Gleichstellung hat diese Führung 2014 entwickelt und im selben Jahr anlässlich des Jubiläums «100 Jahre Hauptgebäude der UZH» erstmals durchgeführt. Nun bieten wir sie in überarbeiteter Form neu an. Die ersten beiden neuen Führungen haben im November 2015 bereits erfolgreich stattgefunden. Wir beabsichtigen, die Führung auch 2016 anzubieten. Sobald die neuen Daten feststehen werden sie an dieser Stelle publiziert.
Eine Auswahl von Fragen, die in der Führung angesprochen werden
European Mentoring Task Force will held a workshop to show step by step the procedures to follow in order to fomalize a new tandem. During the workshop established tandems will be presented . All members are welcomed to ask information.
Why mentoring for BPW
Mentoring is one of the tools to realise the aims and objectives of BPW. Our members are from all professions, they have an immense source of knowledge and experience that can be shared. Mentoring between members is a superb means to empower women and to strengthen club life.
BPW sees mentoring as a learning process between two individuals. It offers support to develop a program for mentoring between two people: a mentor and a mentee (called tandem mentoring: two people riding a bike to reach together a goal they agreed on).
- Understand how you can use social networks (such as twitter or linked-in) to manage your career or find a job
- Good examples and outcomes
- Main advice to follow and things to avoiid
WE Are the Champions. A Wake-up Call.
The BPW International Commission for Health, in full agreement with the WHO Global NCDs Action Plan 2013-2020 and the “25 by 25” (25% reduction of cardiovascular diseases by 2025), campaigned hard in these last years to fight, through the Red Belt Project, against overweight, obesity ,and sedentarity promoting cardiovascular risk awareness in women and in children to safeguard their future and the future of the world.In actual fact, the last WHO’s call is for action against childhood obesity, almost a pandemia, with 42 million children under the age of 5 overweight or obese in 2013. Several epidemiological studies have confirmed the importance of abdominal circumference and its relationship with height (waist/stature ratio) as an indicator of abdominal fat and cardiovascular risk (the optimal value of this parameter should be equal to or below 0.50), more effective and trusted than Body Mass Index (BMI) which describes the relationship between weight and height without considering the distribution of body fat. The aim of the project is to fight against overweight, obesity and sedentarity and to monitor the waistline-height ratio in order to check the abdominal fat and to prevent future cardio-metabolic diseases in women and children. To meet this goal it’s necessary to invest in health to reduce morbility and disability, to spread knowledge of the multiple causes of female/ children cardiometabolic diseases, to use better and safer indicators for assessment of cardiometabolic risk and to lobby Health care Institutions and Governments to recognize sedentary lifestyle as a disease which, in all ages, has to be cured with the right therapy that is the physical activity. The “Tommy & Ollie for Health” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ8yqUT6PJs ) Project was set up in compliance with the limited resources of the planet and with the ethics in food to have access to healthy food as one of the fundamental rights of mankind.
FairPay is FairPlay!
I have one goal: fair pay for all of us! That is what I am fighting for as initiator of the FairPay - alliance. Equal pay concerns every one, women just like men, economy just like politics. We need to change the attitude towards equal pay in corporations and in our heads. We will have reached this goal when equalpayday falls on new year and every woman and every man can state on 365 days a year: today I am paid fairly, today I will pay fairly.
We can only reach this goal together and will discuss in the workshop the next steps of the game, because: FairPay is FairPlay!
In this interactive workshop we will look at the importance of motivation - one of the most fascinating areas of leadership
1. A fresh glance at some well-known motivation theories
2. How to motivate your team in the corporate world
3. Motivating people in non-profit organizations
4. Do women apply different motivation strategies?
Carmen Taheny will talk to you about how to make your BPW Club successful. She will explain how BPW Ireland has grown and how this was achieved. How they bid for the 2019 BPW European conference to be held in Galway and were successful.
How to connect with new potential members for your clubs and how to successfully gain corporate sponsorship for main events in your clubs. “Each day while you are working you are meeting with potential new members “
Gabriella Canonica will show you how her formula for being a valued member of BPW has been successfully proved by BPW Ireland and how your clubs can also be successful by following her plan to grow your clubs and keep in contact with your members.
