WIN to Network – Network to WIN
The premier networking group for professional women and women business owners. Wake Forest, Raleigh, North Carolina
Note: WIN of Wake Forest has moved to the Wake Forest Coffee Company at 156 S White Street in Wake Forest.
Educating, Enabling and Energizing Women
Women In Networking (WIN) is a women’s business networking and community organization that encourages and endows women to embrace their innate power, wisdom and abilities to succeed in business and life. With major chapters in North Raleigh and Wake Forest and serving the entire Triangle region in North Carolina, WIN encourages you to join its unique group of business women and dynamic female entrepreneurs. And come share in and contribute to the professional bounty that women everywhere should enjoy!!
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SPEAKER: E.L.”BETSY” SMITH PHD
Women’s Leadership Matters: Growing Your Career and Balancing Your Life
Women’s leadership does matter. We lead differently and effectively. Corporate cultures have been changed by our leadership methods and traditionally male professions are now populated with females.
But women are frustrated at times because of the things that matter to them. Their ideas are not implemented and they feel that they are not heard. They feel out of control of their time and their lives.
Betsy Smith, PhD will share techniques to grow your career while creating balance in your life. Topics include “you get to choose”, “communicate like a powerful woman”, “play to your strengths” and “it’s about time”.
Find out more about Betsy Smith
ORGANIZING YOUR LIFE & BUSINESS
Mind-Mapping, A Thought Organizing Tool
Clutter is not only in our physical space, but often in our heads. Head-clutter often consists of thoughts or ideas, things we need to do, things we should do, projects that we need to work on, problems we need to solve and last but not least, things we are procrastinating on. It is estimated that we have between 12,000 and 40,000 thoughts per day! Clutter in your head often equates with stress and who wouldn’t want to find a way to reduce stress? I have learned a new technique for organizing this type of clutter; a way to organize those thoughts, projects, notes and priorities that often overwhelm us. After learning the process, I find myself wondering why I was not taught this in high school or even college!
I introduce you to my magical organizing tool – mind-mapping. Mind mapping is a process that involves using your left and right brain to dump all those thoughts and ideas on paper in a format that flows for you. Mind mapping is a way to put head-clutter on paper in an order that not only makes sense, but allows you to visualize it. In the last two weeks alone I have used this process to establish my values, lay out my weekly to do lists, and write this article! The biggest advantage is that for your personal mind-maps there is no such thing as a wrong one!