Women's Business Network

19/09/2018

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Pierwszy w Polsce globalny asset manager, który będzie dostarczał usługi zarządzania aktywami swoim klientom z całego świata, powstaje w Krakowie.

10/03/2017

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our event last Wednesday. We hope you found it useful and inspiring! Whilst we are still awaiting photos to share with you, we thought you might appreciate some interesting further reading - so here you go. Enjoy!

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https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/w-pulapce-kompetencji-146560

Stałam akurat na parkingu pod supermarketem w Przasnyszu, w drodze na Mazury, usiłując zabawić znudzone podróżą dzieci. Przez ich pokrzykiwania trochę słabo było słychać krakowską redakcję, toteż propozycja zostania felietonistką zdała mi się najpierw jakimś poważnym zakłóceniem na linii. Gdy jednak...

06/03/2017

March 8th, International Women's Day, is round the corner and WBN together with Cisco Kraków have prepared a special event for you - focused entirely on networking: A practical guide to networking!
There will be practical guides as well as hints and tips on networking followed by facilitated networking rounds (to give you a chance to practise what you just learnt).
In addition, we have a number of senior leaders at the event who will be available for speed mentoring - a WBN first.

7.00 - 7.15 pm
Opening and introduction to the topic by Zuzanna Jawor, WBN President

7.15 - 7.45 pm
"A practical guide to networking" presentations by:

Brenda G. Dennis
Vice President, Customer and Partner ServicesAmericas - Cisco

AND

Sebastian Drzewiecki
Business Service Centre Head / End User and Infrastructure Services - GSK

7.45- 8.30 pm
Facilitated networking & speed mentoring

8.30- 9.30 pm
Informal networking

Please bring your business cards with you!

21/02/2017

The first WBN event in 2017 took place in Novotel at Kosciuszki on January 26th with the topic: ‘Business, financial and strategic acumen – career advice you probably didn’t get’. At the beginning of the night the 180+ participants were welcomed by Zuzanna Jawor, the President of WBN. Zuzanna introduced the speakers - Aneta Pilch Head of Project Consulting & Business Intelligence at UBS and Kevin Welch, Managing Director at BBH.

Firstly, the participants watched the TED talk by Susan Colantuono ‘Career Advice You Didn’t Get’. (link: goo.gl/zH8IYP)
After watching the video only four people among whole audience admitted that they have received advice focused on business, financial and strategic acumen when building up their careers.

The panel discussion was started by Aneta Pilch who referred to her personal and professional experiences. Aneta explained how she applied strategy and the balanced scorecard as well as analyzing your company’s financials in order to enable acquiring business, strategic and financial acumen. Aneta also pointed out that the strategy can be applied not only in professional life but can be extended to a personal level, for example, having children working towards set goals whilst pursuing their ambitions like playing football.

Kevin Welch emphasized the importance of business, strategic and financial acumen by referring to early stages of his career. At the beginning of his career Kevin focused on being a subject matter expert and being proficient in his field of responsibilities. He got promoted and kept his focus, this time on developing his soft skill set and developing his team members. After that his career has stopped – why? He has had deep knowledge in subject but was lacking something. He identified the gap and focused on building up the financial, strategic and business acumen to enable move to the next level of his career path.

Following the guest speakers Zuzanna used an example from her professional experience - how understanding the business industry one works in should be analyzed and understood in order to work efficiently and make sound business decisions. Zuzanna also pointed out how we tend to focus on soft skills related to our development rather than linking our professional purposefulness with the employer’s strategy and financial and business aspects. Professionals should keep this in mind and put more focus on the latter.

The questions and answers part of the event led to an engaging discussion and sharing of experiences and views, and some lucky people that asked questions were awarded books funded by the writer and participant of the evening, Sylwia Królikowska, who is a psychologist, coach and trainer.

The networking part was focused on informal discussions in the hall over drinks and nibbles with the focus on the main subject of the evening.

13/01/2017

The Krakow Women's Business Network and BBH are pleased to invite you to the next great event "The career advice you probably didn't get”.

Statistics show that only some high potential employees make it to the next level in their career. To be seen as a leader within your organisation and to progress to management roles requires a wide array of skills and competencies. However, there is one skill rarely discussed and less obviously demonstrated by women, but which is critical to drive a company forward and is therefore a key competency of a leader. This skill can be summarised as business, strategic and financial acumen. We will discuss what this means and provide practical advice on how you can obtain this competency through the experiences of leaders

When: January 26, Thursday
Time: 6.30 - 9.00 pm
Venue: Novotel Krakow Centrum, Kościuszki 5, 30-105 Kraków

There are limited seats, please RSVP before Monday, January 23, 2017 COB by registering here: http://wbn.org.pl/en/Contact

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19/12/2016

On Tuesday, 6 December 2016, Saint Nicolas Day, the Women's Business Network and State Street Bank Polska, our main sponsor for this event, hosted our traditional Christmas Jingle and Mingle. This time the celebration was held in Pauza in the fabulous Malopolski Garden of Arts.

Zuzanna Jawor, the president of WBN, opened the event and welcomed the participants. Mark Hamilton, Branch Manager highlighted the importance of diversity in contemporary business and encouraged everyone to use the evening as an opportunity for networking. Subsequently, Gregory Apostolakis, Centre Director of HSBC, an active supporter of WBN, wished us all an enjoyable evening.

The first part of the night was focused on networking; we gathered around the tables over a glass of mulled wine and gingerbread and had an opportunity to make new contacts and renew existing ones. We then moved onto the lottery. People were surprised and overwhelmed by the amount of items to win, and we are grateful to our sponsors for their generosity (Studio Synergy, Akademia Stylizacji M.P. Babicz, Gabinet Kosmetyczny Eliksirem, Electrolux, Estetica, Nago Sushi, Dorota Ptak, Sylwia Czajka-Jansen, Sylwia Krolikowska-Evenhuist, Beata Jurasz). Among the items were books, blenders, sports training sessions with a coach, visits to a hairdresser, beauty shop and many others.

The event turned out to be a great success with a lot of positive feedback received during and after the evening.

2016 Christmas Jingle & Mingle

04/03/2016

Both personal life and career are the paths which you can create. Very often our professional development is the result of coincidence or temporary needs rather than a path consciously built based on our abilities. It is never too late to find something in your job that specifically reflects your talents and passions, and to build on them. Horizontal changes of position from one department to another are more and more popular.

08/09/2015

The "Risk During Changes" WBN and State Street Bank Poland joint event took place on August 27th in Krakow Plaża.

Derek Smith, Founder of WBN, opened the event and welcomed the participants. After that, Scott Newmann, Senior Vice President of State Street Bank Poland and our keynote speaker, made an introduction to the topic. Renata Szostak, Vice President and Head of Global Human Resources for State Street Bank Poland, shared with us a personal story about risk enabling successful change process.

At the end we were pleased to have traditional networking. WBN members had a chance to talk to each other, ask the speakers more questions and broadly discuss the topic of the meeting.

21/08/2015

Dear all,

Women's Business Network and State Street Bank Poland are very pleased to invite you to our joint networking and discussion event that will focus on “Risk during changes”.

· Does risk have to be stressful?
· Are you prepared to take the necessary risks to enable a successful change process?
· Do you know how to apply and develop yourself in the mitigation of potential risk?

Time: 6.30 - 9.00 pm
Venue:Plaża Kraków, Ludwinowska 2, 30-331 Kraków

There are limited seats, RSVP before Tuesday, August 25, 2015 COB by registering here: http://wbn.org.pl/en/Contact

18/05/2015

The ‘Brand me for success’ event took pleace last Tuesday 12 May in the atrium of Orange Park.
Zuzanna Jawor, Chairperson of WBN opened the event Michael McDonald, Managing Director of Brown Brothers Harriman (Poland) Sp.z o.o. welcomed the participants. After that, Lesley Everett speaker on personal branding and growth presented techniques and shared her thought on importance of self presentation, appearance and reputation. Lesley’s Walking TALL approach includes seven points of maximizing personal brand and contains worth remembering action points: be who you really are, make impact right from the outset, remember that visual brand counts, be memorable and visible, presentational brand matters, creating personal brand statement. What is more, to succeed in building personal brand requires continuously applying those rules. Truly, the presentation was inspiring to the listeners and tips shared by Lesley were practical and helpful. As usual during our WBN events, last part of the evening was focused on networking – the participants had the opportunity to meet and exchange their opinions about the discussed topic.

08/05/2015

Dear All,
We are happy to invite you to the upcoming Big Event "Brand me for success"

• How do I create a powerful personal brand?
• How do I build an impact in meetings and presentations?
• How do I develop my unique brand to position me for that next career move?

WBN members will be presented techniques of personal branding and growth by an internationally acclaimed professional speaker - Lesley Everett (http://www.lesleyeverett.com/).

There are limited seats, please RSVP before Monday, May 11, 2015 COB by registering here: http://wbn.org.pl/en/Contact