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Interested in joining W.I.N. 2009 as a workshop leader, speaker or coach?
The application process is now closed. Speakers will be contacted by no later than end of June.
1. How to apply
2. What else to keep in mind
3. Examples of topics
4. Coaching Lab
5. Useful to know – apply today
1. How to apply?
Speaker/Workshop leader
Send us your workshop proposal for a 1½ - 2 hour session, your CV and short bio as MS Word or PDF attachments via email or regular mail. Include a DVD or video from a recent presentation if you have one. It is can be sent to the W.I.N. office referencing your application.
Personal references are crucial. Also mention if you have attended a W.I.N. conference or know someone who has. No one is paid to run a workshop or participate as a coach at W.I.N. but you will benefit from a wealth of professional contacts that can help you spread your impact and grow your business.
2. What else to keep in mind
The W.I.N. workshops aim to deal with the following areas:
corporate performance enhancement
entrepreneurship
doing business internationally
career advancement
personal leadership growth and leadership development.
Here your role as a workshop leader is that of facilitating learning, transformation and/or teaching a skill.
As a speaker, workshop leader or coach you are part of making the W.I.N. vision come alive and putting wisdom in action.
Theme and Topic
The W.I.N. 2009 theme is: Wisdom in action: transforming people, organizations, and society.
We are living in times where opening up to new opportunities are vital. New ways of being and leading in the world are required. As we open ourselves to new solutions, women and the feminine have a vital role to play and each of us embodies the power to influence, to attract, to decide and to lead.
W.I.N.’s objective; evoking change to authenticity and raising feminine and global awareness to create a sustainable future, includes: inspiring success based individuality, cultivating authentic leadership and encouraging feminine ways of doing business and of being. It promotes sensitivity and courage; transforming knowledge into wisdom; pursuing goals while consciously letting life unfold. It means developing sensibilities, listening within as well as considering the surroundings, caring for others, for future generations, for the planet and for ourselves. It requires the sharing of knowledge, experiences, results, truth, power and discoveries. It requires fearlessly standing for and defending what we commit to.
3. Examples of topics
On a practical level, here are some suggested topics. However, do not feel limited. W.I.N. embraces a rich and varied mix of topics.
We aim to look at how we can improve communication, use our intuition and our femininity to become authentic, global leaders. How can we learn skills and gain the confidence to allow ourselves to become a board member or join an executive committee,. How to have a career in a corporation and make a difference, accelerate our career,, work globally, start a business.
Typical workshop topics include: Organizational creativity, cross cultural leadership, recruiting for corporate boards, being an efficient board member, making diversity work, ethical leadership, creative leadership, branding, public speaking, efficient communication, making an impact, women and men of the organization, systems thinking for teams and retaining talent, creativity and innovation, marketing through the web, women and technology.
As an entrepreneur, how to find capital, how to protect my brand? How to sell and how to build a brand? How to run a global team and how to become inclusive? How to negotiate and get a better deal? How to do good and doing well? How to tap into my wisdom? How to deal with change? How to change challenges into opportunity? How to stay employable? What about technology, how to help me be more efficient? What’s my talent, what’s my purpose – don’t waste time? What about mastering money and improve finances?
Managing career transitions, action planning for change, mastering transitions, understanding non-verbal communication, conscious communication, change management, from career to calling, integrating spirituality into work, making your voice heard, living your passion and creating your mission, negotiation skills, work with purpose, applying values in decision making.
All the above are typical topics of a great W.I.N. workshop.
Women at W.I.N. are keen to grow, to learn, to accelerate careers, start businesses, give and be strong. W.I.N. asked how do we do all of this; how to open ourselves to new solutions, how to bring the wisdom into action?
The W.I.N. 2009 conference offers around 40 workshops of 1½ - 2 hours each. Every year hundreds of women and men apply to offer workshops and W.I.N. is considered a prestigious place to speak. For many it has generated tangible connections to grow their business.
Working Groups: W.I.N. organizes working groups to look at specific topics such as: Women and Media, Women and Technology, Women on Boards, Women, , Women in Entrepreneurship, Women Empowering Women, Feminine Leadership and others.
4. Professional coaches - Coaching lab
W.I.N. offers coaching labs during the conference that allow you, the coach, an opportunity to hold 3-4 sessions (45 minutes in length) with participants. These complimentary 1-1 sessions are designed to give participants an opportunity to explore the benefits of coaching in an open and unsolicited environment. Conversely, coaches are given exposure and a chance to reach out to a wide potential client base. Interested coaches should send their resumes, including coaching qualifications, experience, area of expertise and coaching organizations that they are affiliated with. Same conditions and deadlines as above.
5. Useful to know – apply today
As W.I.N. functions like a showcase and is organized for everyone who wants to be part. Typically between 120 and 150 speakers, workshop leaders and coaches are involved each year. With so many women being actively part of it we can only give discounts to presenters and no fee is paid. Workshop leaders/coaches/speakers are required to pay a discounted registration fee of 795 Euro and in addition, their own travel and accommodation costs. This is a large saving of 800 Euro on the standard professional conference price (1595 euro).
All presenters will be mentioned with picture and bio in the conference program, participant book and on the web-site and will be able to participate in the entire event.
Please submit your proposal by email or mail and no later than May 15th 2009.
It takes several weeks to process and review all applications after which time we will send selection notification.
In some exceptional cases we do accept proposals after this date. Please note that some applicants may be placed on a waiting list. We are also creating interactive sessions to allow as many voices heard as possible as we can not include all speakers who apply.
Send:
- CV/Bio
- Proposal
- References
- DVD/Video
Send application to:
Email to: speaker@winconference.net Subject: Speaker Selection Committee
Women's International Networking
Attn: Speaker Selection Committee
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1006 Lausanne
Switzerland
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