Contact Host for event and ticket information.
Thursday, December 10, 2009 from 6:15 PM - 9:30 PM (GMT+1000)
BPW Sydney would like to
invite you to our 10th December Dinner, featuring:
Linda Simonsen - CEO of FuturePeople
"Maximise Your Negotiation Outcomes"
Enhance your negotiation skills and improve your outcomes. Whether it
be in negotiation of contracts with suppliers, conducting a sales
pitch
for a new client, to achieve a pay rise or to resolve
conflict
personally or professionally, negotiation is an art and honing your
skills will pay dividends.
Linda will discuss the Art of Negotiation...
* The value of effective negotiation *
* Characteristics of an effective negotiator *
* Various Negotiation Styles, and adjusting your style to different
personality types *
* The role of Emotional Intelligence in negotiaton *
Linda was featured in BRW Magazine as only
one of
four women on the BRW Fast 100 List in 2006, as well as in the Amex
Business Magazine (‘Leading the Way’, Dynamic Business ‘Young
Guns’) and on the ABC 7.30 Report as part of the Paid Maternity Leave
(PML)
debate.
Plus from 6.30-7pm, the 'Dialogue' round-table discussion
with a BPW update on advocacy in 2009 - including:
Pay Equity - Women on Boards - Beijing+15 (Millennium Goals)
Prevention of Violence Against Women - United Nations CSW
(i.e. the UN sessions in New York at which, as a BPW member, you can be an official delegate!)
Sydney Club's Dialogue results are forwarded to BPW's national chapter and assist
with BPW's opinion forming process and BPW's input during the United
Nations sessions each year.
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This event will be hosted at our resident venue the Menzies Hotel
near Wynyard Station in the CBD.
A two-course dinner is included in the event fee.
Please note, drinks are not included.
Parking at a flat fee of $19 in Wynyard
Lane behind the Menzies Hotel (enter via Margaret Street)
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Special giveaways and raffle prizes for Christmas!
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More about our speaker Linda Simonsen
Linda is the founder and CEO of FuturePeople Recruitment;
ranked 21st on the BRW Fast 100 List, as one of Australia’s fastest
growing companies in 2006. FuturePeople specialises in people
solutions for the contact centre industry, boasting a client portfolio
of Australia’s leading organisations – Coca-Cola, St George Bank,
Westpac and News Limited to name a few.
FuturePeople was a finalist in the 2008 Telstra
Business Awards, a Finalist in the Recruitment Excellence Awards in
2008 and 2009, recognized on the Smart Company list in 2007 and won the
Seek Recruiter of the Year Award in 2004, in addition to being
announced as a Finalist again in 2006.
Linda is a member of the Australian Human Resources
Institute (AHRI) and a regular speaker for the Australian Teleservices
Association (ATA) on best practice contact centre recruitment, as well
as a Judge in the National Contact Centre Industry Awards. She holds tertiary qualifications in Psychology and HR from
the University of Sydney and is on the Board of the Recruitment
Consulting Services Association (RCSA), as well as the Charity Odyssey
House.
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