The Net Result - Book 4: Awards & Membership Directory

By Lucille Orr

This final book in a series of four books; includes the success stories of business and professional women who won the title of "Telecom Australian Executive Woman of the Year" in its inaugural year as a national award organised by the Australian Executive Women's Network.

These women are the founders of the prestigious, "Telstra Business Women's Awards".
This series of books have been used in "Career Study Classes" in High Schools, Universities and Business Colleges since the nineties.

Women wanting to start their own small businesses and those keen to climb corporate ladders or sit on company boards have all gained the valuable knowledge they needed from these pioneering women's stories.

In this book there is a "Membership Guide" to help you to understand how the Australian Executive Women's Network operates. It will also assist you if you would like to start a network of your own.

Be sure to collect the four volumes in this set of invaluable books.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9780987159861

Book preview

Network

Why You Will Love This Book

When The Net Result books were first published they were an overwhelming success as the personal stories told by Australia’s most successful business and professional women were a wonderful guide to those starting a career or considering going into business for themselves. The stories of the inaugural winners and runners-up who participated in the Australian Executive Woman of the Year awards which later became the Telecom Executive Woman and in 1995 the name changed to the Telstra Business Women’s Award.

The first book in this series contained the stories of the first five years winners in South Australia where it all began way back in 1986. The second book was the stories told by the inaugural National Award Winners and the book included a Membership Guide.

Our wonderful editor Nancy Robinson Flannery assisted us with all our Australian Executive Women’s Network books; including a book we published in Japan featuring Australian and Japanese women’s success stories. The book titled, Women’s Success Stories – Nine Business Executives Around the Pacific Ocean also included a Japanese-American woman living in USA.

We dedicate this Net Result e-book to Nancy Robinson Flannery who died on 1st September 2011, but will remain in our minds and hearts forever. In Nancy’s memory, and to re-launch the Australian Executive Women’s Network in this modern Internet world we are releasing The Net Result books in four e-book volumes. They are valuable as an educational tool assisting the youth of the world to understand the life and struggles business and professional women endured to become successful in the 20th Century.

In this book we invite you to participate in the relaunch of the women’s network. If you haven’t thought of operating your own small business – here’s your chance! We are searching for women who would like to become Co-ordinators of their own AEWN branch. The Membership Guide included in this book will give you some information on how we have operated our network since 1986. There is also a formal AEWN Co-ordinator Training Program you will undertake to ensure your success as a Branch Co-ordinator in your own town or city.

We look forward to hearing from you. Please purchase the four e-books in The Net Result series. We have made them extremely inexpensive so you can introduce these fabulous women and the AEWN to your friends, work colleagues and strangers, who will become friends in the future once they join AEWN and learn to network effectively.

Lucille Orr – [e-mail]

Dedication

We dedicate this book to Nancy Robinson Flannery our beloved editor who did so much to assist the Australian Executive Women’s Network members.

Nancy died on 1st September 2011 but she will be with us forever in our hearts and minds.

Published by Lucille Orr

for the

Australian Executive Women’s Network

107 Carrington Street, Adelaide SA 5000

Telephone: [phone]

Mobile: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

Re-designed as an e-Book, by Steve Orr

Email: [e-mail]

Published in eBook format by Lucille Orr

Converted by http://www.ebookit.com

Copyright 2012 Lucille Orr,

All rights reserved.

ISBN-13: 978-0-9871-5986-1

No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the consent of authors and publisher.

All the stories in this book are true and written by the authors.

How to Start Your Own BRANCH of the AUSTRALIAN EXECUTIVE WOMEN’S NETWORK

I won’t go into lengthy detail now, because it’s important you read this book and the others in The Net Result series to understand all the services the network offers. There is a formal AEWN Co-ordinator Training Course to assist you to become successful, but for now I’ll just give you a brief overview of what being a Co-ordinator means and how you will personally benefit from your position.

1. All you will need to do is email all your friends and announce on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and any other social media program you are involved with that you are opening a branch in your town or city.

2. You will need to have a date, time and place where the first meeting will be held. Initially this could even be in your own home or in a local hotel if it has a private room. I’ve held meetings in school halls, council chambers and boardrooms.

3. One of my favourite meeting places is restaurants as they are always looking for additional business and if there is a small private room you could ask if it would be OK to use it for your meetings. A coffee meeting is inexpensive – it doesn’t have to be a luncheon or dinner meeting in the early days.

4. At each meeting we give the guests and members wearing name tags so they know who is in the room. This can just be a sticky label nothing elaborate.

5. Everyone in the group has two minutes to quickly announce who they are and what they do for a living. This will be a first for some people who have never had to think quickly about what they do. To announce it in only two minutes is fabulous training for anyone in business. It’s a bit like a radio or TV commercial, many of these are only 30 or 60 seconds, so it’s wonderful practice for a business minded person whether they are working for someone else or planning to start their own business, and especially if they already operate a business of their own. It’s so important to be concise when you tell people what you do.

6. We encourage everyone to bring along business cards and as a Co-ordinator you have AEWN business card to hand out to everyone, plus membership forms for those who may like to join at the meeting.

7. At each AEWN meeting three members are invited to speak for 30 minutes on any topic. Once you have regular meetings three members are given notice that they will speak at the following meeting giving them time to prepare their talk.

8. If you encourage the women attending your first meeting to purchase The Net Result Book 3. In this e-book it includes the success stories of the women who won our Speaker Awards. This book also includes a Speaker’s Guide to help readers to become Professional Speakers and Authors if they would like to make a good income from speaking publicly.

9. Public speaking and writing are extremely important attributes to cultivate if a person is planning to go into business or become a Manager in a large corporation. If you don’t gain confidence in these two areas it’s extremely difficult to promote yourself and the organisation you represent.

10. AEWN is totally dedicated to assisting its members to succeed in life and business. We encourage our members to speak as most have found the experience assisted them to quickly gain personal confidence and success in business. Vanessa Hume, founder of White Lady Funerals tells how the publicity of the AEWN awards assisted her to gain massive national publicity for her business. If we hadn’t taught Vanessa and other women like her to stand up and speak publicly they would never have been able to speak on radio and television when the time came for them to be in the spotlight!

11. We had four radio programs back in the nineties but these days with the Internet we are interviewing members on video and presenting their stories on our website, on YouTube and offering the best presentations to the media.

12. Once the members get to know one another you will find they will network and learn from each another’s experiences in business. In Book 1, Mere Caesar an Adelaide member talks about how she met Clarissa O’Brien at an AEWN meeting and due to their meeting that day Mere’s local business developed into an international export company. She was sending live-stock to Saudi Arabia and timber for housing to other countries. The stories in these books are wonderful.

13. AEWN has excellent workshops and the Tomorrow’s Executive (five day course) for school leavers has always been an overwhelming success. You will find when you read the Membership Guide in this book, AEWN programs are listed.

14. As a Branch Co-ordinator you will become extremely well known in your local area as the media will be interested in the AEWN activities you are presenting. Most of our Co-ordinators owned their own small businesses or worked in full time positions as well as organising the local AEWN branch, because of the publicity they gained from AEWN it helped their own enterprises flourished.

The Word

EXECUTIVE

Means to Manage

So don’t be afraid to call yourself an Executive Woman,

many women are managing a home, family and a career.

Since 1968 Lucille Orr has been educating women, initially in her Key Punch Centres in three states of Australia where she trained women (because they were the only ones who could type) in key punch, data entry, word-processing and computer