Hello everyone!
Since the months of November and December have late holidays, we have decided to bump the member meetings up one week for these months only. Please see the new dates in the right pane of this Web site. If you should have any questions, please contact me!
Thank you!
-Tracy Drogalus
Formation President
ABWA Women of Wisdom
440-684-1646
The breakdown is as follows:
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National |
Local |
Total |
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| Professional | $ 75.00 | $ 40.00 | $ 115.00 |
| Full time Student | $ *75.00 | $ 30.00 | $ 105.00 |
| Senior | $ *75.00 | $ 30.00 | $ 105.00 |
| And then $5.00 per meeting. | |||
(reflects 2007 prices)
(*Contact the national office for more info at 1-800-228-0007, or see ABWA National’s web site)
We are collecting the National dues when people sign up. We will be collecting the Local Chapter dues when we install which will be October 2006. We need 15 to 20 more applicants to become a full fledged chapter. Know anyone?
The money and National application is collected by the Treasure - J. Lombardi. Or if you prefer, you can sign up on-Line (National only) and submit your credit card number there. If you apply on-line, be sure to inform our treasurer of your new membership so that she can match your name to your face!. Please make sure you put your occupation number down (explained in the application), and the “sponsor” name and number. The person sponsoring you would be the person who recommended you to our chapter. Be sure to get her ABWA member number! She will get a nice token from National.
Our chapter meetings have been so fulfilling with topics on Emotional Intelligence, diversity, and wisdom! All of our meetings are geared for improving ourselves personally and professionally. It is worth the member and meeting fees while it is easy to get to, right after work!
If there is any other info you need, just send me an email or give me a call!
Sincerely,
Tracy Drogalus
Formation President
American Business Women’s Association
Women of Wisdom
216-210-8996
What a wonderful event we had on July 18th! Fabulous food and an amazing speaker. ABWA, Women of Wisdom would like to thank VelMarie Peoples who spoke so eloquently, with motivating spirit. Starting off speaking about the ABWA mission statement, she charged the audience about the power that comes when getting together as a group. She explained how important it is to open our minds and hearts as women, and form a union - shoulder to shoulder - while encouraging all in attendance to join the Women of Wisdom chapter.
Ms. Peoples reminded us how boys grew up playing in teams and how girls gave objects (like our teddy bears!) life. She explained how women have a sixth sense that detects even the shadiest of events, and how we can tap into this sense to gain wisdom. Audience members chuckled with laughter and nodded in agreement with VelMarie’s words. 
Thank you again VelMarie, and thank you to all who joined that evening! Women of Wisdom gained seven more members, including VelMarie herself! To the new members: We are so glad to have you as our new friends at WOW! We are counting down and need around 15 more new members to become a full fledged chapter!
Tomorrow is the day! We are happy to welcome Velmarie Peoples to the podium to hear her uplifting and empowering talk on the wisdom we have within us. She will be speaking this night about “How Women were Anointed and Appointed to be Wise Business Leaders.”
Ms. Peoples serves as manager of the Housing Choice Voucher (HCVP) Homeownership Program for the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), where she oversees the administration of over 500 rental voucher participants pursuing their dream of homeownership. In addition to her demanding work schedule, Ms. Peoples is a leader within her church, a member on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Educational Mentoring Alliance, an ordained minister, bible teacher, mother of 4 and wife of the Reverend Ricardo Peoples. This is going to be a very exciting meeting!
Light refreshments will be provided. Admission is $5.00 at the door. We look forward to seeing you and bring a friend!
And make sure you put August 15th on your calendars to hear Dr. Charleyse Pratt speak about “Dreaming With Your Eyes Open!
Charleyse “Charley” Pratt is an experienced Organizational Development Consultant and Human Resource professional with over 25 years experience. She has worked as an internal and external consultant on matters involving large system change, strategic planning, executive and leadership development, and Team leadership and employee relations.
Dr. Pratt is currently employed as Director of the Baldwin-Wallace College East Campus location in Beachwood, Ohio. She has been an Adjunct Faculty in the CASE University School of Engineering and a regular presenter for the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College – Advanced Minority Business Executive Program. She is a recipient of the Graduate Dean’s Instructional Excellence Award at CASE.
Hope to see you at these exciting events!
Tracy Drogalus
Formation President
ABWA, Women of Wisdom
tracydrogalus@sbcglobal.net
440-684-1646
All new prospective members will have one question in common — “WHY should I join ABWA?” All current members have answered the same question and each member has a unique answer disclosing their own individuality! Current members pose the follow-up question of “Why do I continue as a member of ABWA?” Evaluate what has made you grow and has been a source of specific interest to your needs.
In applying this exercise to my own experiences. My answer of why do I continue as a member of ABWA after 27 years is : There are so many untold benefits to be reaped from the associations I have made within ABWA! My comment is always Why NOT join ABWA?
My personal benefit details are listed below as services, products, and assistance or information that I have received since I chartered the Women with Vision chapter in June, 2003, just 3 years ago, and directly from members of that chapter.
*Direct Sales opportunities and information *Health insurance *Small business banking accounts *Payroll service *Credit card processing * Specialized medical equipment and implement *Continuing education advice *Tutoring advice *Professional networking breakfast groups *Community outreach *Wellness products *Local and long distance phone service *Home computer networking systems *Professional publication production *Sales and marketing advice *Sunshine greetings (just at the right time) *Investment education *Personal Coaching *Computer software education *Leadership and Mentoring *Beauty products
And there is so much more that I could list, but find out for yourself and start to build your own list!
Let ABWA help ”YOU” with almost anything you would need, all you have to do is just ask. And now, I will ask ”YOU” to join ABWA and start building your own network of like-minded women. There is nothing like being surrounded with creative, dedicated women who all want the same thing; to be a better person, both personally and professionally.
We need an additional 19 members so we can install the Women of Wisdom Chapter by October 17th. Think of all the benefits listed above; of being in on the “ground floor”, the opportunity of being a “charter” member” with such a powerful network of women, and you could be one of them. Right now we are offering a 10% discount on your membership, so for the first year your yearly dues would only be $45.00 - this offer won’t last forever, so please take advantage while you can!
If you would like to visit my website (I am in Broadview Heights and am a Mentor to this chapter), please feel free to peruse my website (listed below), and I will help you with any questions you may have. I am looking forward to hearing from you and helping you to decide to say “YES I WANT TO JOIN WOMEN OF WISDOM CHAPTER“
My Women with Vision Website: www.abwa1.com.
Regards,
Lucille M. Wingard
Formation Co-Chair and Mentor to Women of Wisdom
and Founding President of Women with Vision Chapter in Broadview Heights, OH.
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Tips from Dr. Lois Frankel: Get & Keep the Job You Want
1. Your Resume, Education, and Experience Will Not Get You Your Next Job. People hire by likeability, emotional intelligence, and company fit. You can consciously improve in these areas by developing your interpersonal, listening, and social skills.
2. Your Strengths Will Come To Fail You. Never over-rely on your technical expertise. To be competitive you need to constantly develop complementary skills and expand your repertoire of strengths.
3. It’s Not About Best Effort, It’s About Results. Doing your best may have been the motto in your family, but it’s not in the workplace. Everyone is expected to do their best all the time, but the real winners are the ones who add-value, not simply complete tasks.
4. Hardwork is Not the Prerequisite for Promotions. Every workplace has a baseline for hardwork. You have to work up to it to be successful, but you also have to understand that you are a brand that must be defined, honed, and marketed.
5. Participative Management Only Goes So Far. When push comes to shove, your boss wants you to make him/her look good. Learn to manage-up.
6. The Playing Field Isn’t Even. Every workplace is a game with strategies, rules, and boundaries – and those change from person to person and department to department. Play your game within bounds but at the edge.
7. Focus On Your Outside Competitors, Not Your Inside Colleagues. Too many people see the person in the next cubicle as the competition when nothing is further from the truth. Keeping your eye on the business down the street, across country, or around the world is a better tactic.
8. The Company Isn’t In Business To Manage Your Career. They may be delighted you’re there, but be prepared to leave by taking advantage of every training and development opportunity available. It’s never too soon to be looking for your next job.
9. Don’t Overlook The Importance Of The Look And Sound of Success. Avoid the Chinese curse, “may you have a wonderful idea but not be able to convince anyone of it,” by developing outstanding written, verbal, and presentation skills as well as dressing for the job you want, not the one you have.
10. The World is Abundant – Act Like It. To do otherwise is to assume there isn’t enough to go around. Give freely of your time, information, know-how and goodwill. It will be rewarded in kind.
Check out this article in Forbes driving the point home about mentoring.
Be a mentor! If you are a B-W student or Alumnus, you can be a mentor by signing up at the B-W Career Network. Make a contribution back to your school. Help a current student with life and career opportunities!
You can also become a member of our chapter of ABWA. Come to meetings and make it known that you are available to be a mentor. It is my mission to have mentors for the student members. This was so vital to me when I graduated with my bachelors, and is still a vital resource for my continued growth, even now as a student of Masters of Business.
Find a mentor! Baldwin-Wallace has a couple ways to get a mentor. If you are a student looking for a job, sign up on the B-W Career Network. This is where I found the mentor that I wrote about to B-W Career Services. This is such a great service!
I was also lucky to find a mentor in my MBA program at B-W. Peter Kelly, Director of the MBA programs, invited MBA students to get together with a small group of mentors. Only a few students were selected due to the limited number of mentors. I met with Debora Lyons, Chief Human Resources Officer of Westfield Group, who was so gracious with her time. She let me conduct an informational interview with her. She showed me around Westfield Insurance, and she even let me take some personality tests to help me discover what I wanted to do with my life. Her time and feedback were and are so important to me.
I also have mentors at ABWA. Lucille Windgard and the other ABWA members of Women with Vision and Women of Wisdom have been such wonderful contributions to my growth.
And I cannot forget the unofficial mentors that I have! My swim coach from high school (thank you Jane Schweitzer!) and the many wonderful members of the local Beachwood Chamber of Commerce! Because of chamber’s “Job Seekers” program and efforts and encouragement of Wendy Schwartz, I was able to join as a temporary member and meet new people, learn networking skills, and create opportunities for myself. Wendy’s Job Seekers program helped me to break out of my shell. She offered creative ways to search and follow up with prospective jobs. And the members of the chamber were also very generous with their advice and contacts! You would be surprised at how wonderful and giving people can be. These are the unofficial mentors that YOU can find too!
Tony Robbins says if you want to be successful, find a person you admire and model after her/him. This is an indirect way to get a mentor, but a direct way to achieve success!
Mentors can be someone you ask, or someone you don’t even know personally. Mentors are helpful in your career path! Find one today, or BE one today! You can do this by joining our ABWA chapter, and many other ways!
Hello and welcome from the formation president!
I want to tell you a little about what you can find in this site:
Pictures! While you are on this site, don’t forget to click on the “Member Meetings” Album (on the right) to see if you made it into one of the pictures! If you didn’t make it into a pictures, be sure to come to our next meeting! Bring a camera. If you have pictures to share, email them to me and I will post them for everyone to see.
Maps: You will find directions if you click on BW’s address on the right, or look in the “Map and Directions” Album.
Sponsors: So far we have two wonderful sponsors EVentus, and Professional Risk advisors. Check out their logos in the “Our Generous Sponsors” Album. I hope to get their links and post them in the “Blogroll”. Thank you again!
Documents: If you are curious about past and present speakers, need to print a paper National application, and miscellaneous flyers, you can find a link to the pdf’s on the bottom right of this site, under ABWA’s mission. If you have trouble linking to the page, try more than once. It may take a little effort, but the documents are accessible.
Previous Posts: View past post about past and upcoming events in the “Categories” link to the right. Just because it is there doesn’t mean it is old news!
Excellent Links: This area is reserved for worthy Web sites. Right now it has links to the national ABWA site, and our sister and mentoring ABWA site ~ Women With Vision. I truly appreciate the time, effort and guidance that Lucille Wingard and Anna Tanczos from Women with Vision have provided our new group. Visit their site to see what they are all about.
Contemplate life and deep moments at MBakaitis’s site. Learn some great vocabulary and enjoy reading the creative way he uses the English language. Explore where your mind can take you.
Laugh out loud at Jory Des Jardin’s site “Pause…Jory’s thought while sitting”. She takes business and gives it a close up look. You will read her stuff and say “YEA, I know what you mean!” (while you are laughing hysterically). You will wonder how she comes up with the words to describe the indescribable.
Next Event: We hope to see you at this coming meeting. We are gearing up for a great event next week. We are happy to welcome Velmarie Peoples to the podium to hear her uplifting and empowering talk on the wisdom we have within us. Be there to hear “How Women were Anointed and Appointed to be Wise Business Leaders”.
Leave a comment and tell me what you think!
Thank you so much for visiting! Join us at the July 18th’s meeting! Come meet women who want to grow like you do!
Tracy Drogalus
Formation President
ABWA, Women of Wisdom
tracydrogalus@sbcglobal.net
440-684-1646
Join us at our next meeting Tuesday, July 18th at Baldwin-Wallace College East in Beachwood Ohio!
Bring your literature and business cards.
Come hear our exciting guest speaker, Velmarie Peoples. Ms. Peoples serves as manager of the Housing Choice Voucher (HCVP) Homeownership Program for the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), where she oversees the administration of over 500 rental voucher participants pursuing their dream of homeownership. In addition to her demanding work schedule, Ms. Peoples is a leader within her church, a member on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Educational Mentoring Alliance, an ordained minister, bible teacher, mother of 4 and wife of the Reverend Ricardo Peoples. She will be speaking this night about “How Women were Anointed and Appointed to be Wise Business Leaders.”
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