As women, we generally don’t understand what key areas to focus on in order to get promoted in large organisations. Research done by Catalyst Inc. has shown that, as women, we are as ambitious as men but there are several areas where we could be more effective.  In the first part of this workshop we will be talking about these key areas to getting you promoted (so that you can effectively  focus your energy), the second part is about understanding the organisational politics of large organisations to help further your career. Want to find out more? Then join us for this fun interactive workshop in June.

19.00 hrs  Networking

19.30 hrs  Interactive workshop: Effective Communication in Local and Intercultural Mentoring

by Eleonore Breukel

Take this opportunity to become an effective communicator in your mentoring relationship. You will learn how to structure your ‘own’ session, how to steer your conversation and how to give motivating feedback. You will ‘experience’ the difference between local mentoring and mentoring in an intercultural context. You will understand how culture influences communication and collaboration not only because of the nationality of the mentor or mentee but the whole environment: the industry, the profession, the corporate culture etc. In today’s’ virtual business world culture is not explicit and its complexity and uniqueness therefore not taken into consideration which often leads to unexpected situations.

Culture also affects the private situation and relationships of the mentee. Living in a  constant cultural mix may cause feelings of insecurity which affects the work performance.

Our mentoring pairs at EPWN are on many levels intercultural. Take this opportunity to practice and experience how you can weave strength from cultural differences to make your mentoring relationship successful and enjoyable.

Eleonore Breukel has been an intercultural organizational effectiveness consultant and trainer since 1994. Her company Intercultural Communication bv www.intercultural.nl is represented on all continents. Eleonore works in 60 countries for the global corporate world, non-profit organizations and academia. She authored Doing Business Worldwide (in Dutch) a practical book on the cultural aspects of doing business in 19 countries and published over a 100 culture related articles in the traditional media. She co-authored the intercultural Training tool The Cultural Detective the Netherlands and the EPWN Pan European Mentoring Manual.

ebreukel@intercultural.nl

02 April: Speed Mentoring Matchmaking 2012

Meet your mentoring match TONIGHT

Opening by Caroline van Leuven, President of Amsterdam

After the introduction of the 2012 Mentoring Program by Anna Farrenkopf and Eleonore Breukel the new mentoring Angels will introduce her selves and explain how they will enrich the mentoring program and help mentors and mentee’s to successful mentoring relationships.

Mentoring can make the difference between a career that thrives and one that stalls.  Happy, enthusiast, innovative and productive women are important to all organizations and entrepreneurs. Mentoring plays a significant role in this.  In order to manage expectations we have a series of workshops for Mentors and Mentee’s

Tonight Workshop I – The basics of an EPWN mentoring Relationship

• The EPWN mentoring conditions: How are stability and privacy guaranteed.
• How to structure the first meeting – the fundament of the relationship
• How to manage expectations throughout the relationship

Followed by the MATCHMAKING SESSION

Each Mentee can meet several Mentors during 10 minutes interviews. This quick introduction should leave them with an impression if a  mentoring relationship will be succesfull.  The Mentee’s will write their top three Mentor choices on their  Mentee Profile forms and give these to the Mentoring Angels. The Mentoring Angels will match pairs according to the priority of the Mentee’s. and will get in touch with Mentors and Mentee’s to communicate the results after your mentoring relationship can start.

Mentee’s please be explicit in your requirements on your Mentee Profile Form. Mentors please be explicit in the assistance you can provide.

Please download your Mentee and or Mentor Profile form from the collaborative platform Amsterdam Mentoring Group.  Send the filled out forms to Eleonore Breukel ebreukel@intercultural.nl for her to understand what qualities are required and what is offered.  She will take all forms back to the event on April 2nd.

The Agenda for the rest of 2012

Mentoring is an essential part of the EPWN Program 2012 we are therefore happy to inform you of the rest of our program. Please block the dates in your agenda’s. All workshops can be attended by Mentors and Mentee’s

• 23 April – Effective Communication in local and intercultural mentoring

Steering conversations, giving feedback in local and intercultural mentoring by Eleonore Breukel

• 11 June – Mentoring Entrepreneurs by Tineke van der Vorst
• 03 September:  open
• 12 November:  Dealing with Politics in Organizations by Kathy Searcy

Thank you for your generosity to share your knowledge and experience

with others so that their performance can be improved.

Our Mentoring Program is your road to success

Anna Farrenkopf leads the PanEuropean Mentoring Steering Committee at Federation level since 2010.  She is the R&D Manager and COO for Capilix in Leeuwarden. Anna is a bio-geo-analytical-chemist-oceanographer and sailor. She was elected to the EPWN – Federation board in February 2012 as Co-VP Mentoring.

Eleonore Breukel has been a Mentoring Angel since 2009 in Amsterdam. She co-authored the PanEuropean Mentoring eManual (2012). Eleonore is the GM of Intercultural Communication bv in Amsterdam since 1994 www.intercultural.nl

She works on intercultural training assignments across the globe. Her company has offices in six countries. She is in the process of starting the EuropeanPWN Green Economy Steering Committee.

Please note everyone is welcome to attend the plenary and workshops. Only members may participate as a mentee in the mentoring program. Thank you for understanding.

Applications for Mentors & Mentees are located on the EuropeanPWN Collaborative platform under the “File” tab.

http://epwn.etheryl.net/groups/51

Looking forward to sharing our success stories.
Greetings from Eleonore & Anna

Amsterdam Mentors & Mentees,

We have greatly profited from your survey input this fall and have consequently set into motion several new initiatives. We’d like to invite you all to come meet with us in Amsterdam 18 April, 2011. We have reserved a room on the 6th floor of the Amsterdam Public Library (OBA) next to the Amsterdam Central Station.

I will be arriving from Leeuwarden – and will be at 6 pm in the La Place Restaurant on the 7th floor of the Library. Early birds are welcome to join me for dinner. Our program will begin by 19:15 on the 6th floor and end promptly by 21:30. (The library doors close at 22 uur).

We will bring you up-to-date on our meetings in Madrid from February 2011 and initiate our local mentor/mentee matching here in Amsterdam. If you are joining us as a mentor for the first time, we request you fill in our mentor profile. If you are looking for a mentor in Amsterdam, please complete the mentee profile. Both are available to download from the mentoring group on the members platform.

If you are already participating in the pilot Pan-European program – you are also welcome to join us and to share your experiences to date.

Looking forward to catching up!

Cheers from Friesland,

Anna

<mentoring@europeanpwn-amsterdam.net>

Attendees please note: participating in the mentoring program is a members only activity.  If your membership is pending please feel free to join us.  Eventual participation is contingent upon completing the membership process.

This is the second of the mentoring group “zzp & entrepreneurs” workshops facilitated by Eleonore Breukel.

Judith Webber formerly of the zzp-adviescafe will facilitate the second in a series of group discussions.

Monday 4 October we have reserved Carmiggelt‐zaal in the Openbare Biblioteek Amsterdam (Oosterdokskade 143; 1011DL).  The Carmiggelt conference room is located on the 6^th floor of the Library next door to Amstedam Central Station (across from the floating Chinese Restaurant).

Judith Webber

Judith’s core business www.purehuman.nl is to inspire entrepreneurs to show more of themselves to the world: especially the reason why you started your particular business, this says something about you! Customers choose you not only only for what you do; they choose you for who you are, and what you mean to them. “Entrepreneurship is connected to you as a person, it is impossible to separate it”, according to Judith.

In small groups she will inspire and stimulate you to help each other in what you find most difficult in your business. There is always someone there who is totally passionate about that piece.

Everybody leaves the room with new ideas and questions to work out later.

Judith is the author of “Laat jezelf zien” (show yourself) which will come into the market in October 2010.

—-Judiths’ new organization PureHuman www.purehuman.nl started as an idea which was born while talking to ZZP-ers at ZZP-Adviescafe.—-

Members and their guests are absolutely welcome, as Anna is presently headed to the U.S.A. please send your intention to atted to Eleonore Breukel <info@intercultural.nl>

Thank you so much for participating!

Please do contact Anna if you are interested in starting another mentoring initiative or if you are looking to be a mentor <mentoring@europeanpwn-amsterdam.net>

Eleonore Breukel welcomes the zzp’er/entrepreneur mentoring group to their first meeting. This group was formed as a result of a request by attendees to the June mentoring meeting. Membership is closed at this time.

Please contact Eleonore if you would like to stay informed or to participate in a future group mentoring workshop.

ebreukel@intercultural.nl

Please contact Anna if you are interested in starting another mentoring initiative or if you are looking to be a mentor.

mentoring@europeanpwn-amsterdam.nl

Please note this event is “by invitation only”. No registration is possible via the website.

We started off the year with a fresh batch of mentors and mentees.  We had some excellent results.  New jobs have been landed.  Professional development in a present position and in a new business development are well on their way…

We’d like to welcome mentors, mentees and everyone interested in the mentoring process. Edith Punt will provide us with a mentoring model and invite mentors and mentees to discuss their mentoring progression and to provide insight to others considering becoming a mentor.  We will also start collecting mentor/mentee applications over the summer for our second round of matching to begin this fall.

This workshop will be facilitated by EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam member Edith Punt.

In 1985 Edith started her career as a human resources consultant in Bangkok, Thailand. Upon her return to the Netherlands (1995) she initially worked as a trainer/consultant with a focus on appraisal systems (Breda). Later she joined an international headhunter in Amsterdam. In January 1999 she started her own agency in Amsterdam. Her services focus on diversity and crosscultural management. She applies different systems to make individuals aware of their preferred styles of behaviour and patterns in decision making, against the backdrop of organizational goals and team dynamics. Since January 2003 she operates from Zwolle.

Participants are welcome to network from 19:00 to 20:00. The program begins at 20:00.

Registration and Guest Policy: Registration is required for members (no charge) and guests (guests are welcome at a cost of 25 Euro which includes snacks and drinks). Guests are allowed to attend two EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam functions per year. Please contact Caroline van Leuven, our VP Membership.

Please keep in mind participation in the mentoring program is for MEMBERS ONLY.

The venue is arranged. Eleonore is flying back the day before. The website should be “ready” for show and tell…(sorry my html is a bit rusty and it’s taking a bit more time than I planned. I struggled for far too long yesterday on the Table of Contents – it’s almost done).

This is a member only event – so there is no guest registration.

Please join us at the Renaissance Hotel on 16 December for an overview of the mentoring program, to fill in your mentor/mentee profile, and to work toward your perfect mentoring match.

This year we also have a possibilty to work with other EuropeanPWN networks to share with their excess mentor’s & mentees. All kinds of new possibilities exist for 2010! Come hear about them.

Folks that pre-register will be sent a link to the new Mentoring workbook that we’ve been working on so you’ll have a chance to read up a bit before we begin on the 16th.

Anna’s also promised to bake some of her xmas cookies so save some room for dessert.

Gone already on the 16th – don’t worry. Send me an email and I’ll fill you in in January.

mentoring@europeanpwn-amsterdam.net

p.s.
html wizards are also welcome to contact me to browse through my code to see what I missed first time round…