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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 operating skills.

Since 1986 Lucille’s Australian Executive Women’s Network (AEWN) has assisted thousands of women to meet, exchange ideas, learn from one another’s career and business experiences and become successful enjoying an exciting and fulfilling lifestyle.

In 2000 Lucille joined the real estate industry and gained her own licences so she could start the first women’s real estate company - Australian Women And Real Estate (AWARE). She is now helping women invest in property enabling them to become independently wealthy.

In this guide Lucille provides you with an overview of how the AEWN has operated since 1986 and how you can become involved as a member or a co-ordinator of your own AEWN branch.

Due to technology we are becoming more and more isolated, operating our businesses from home and even working in corporate positions from our home computers. While we can communicate with the world today many will find the isolation unhealthy and for this reason Lucille would like to see small, individual AEWN groups starting all over the country so they can meet and learn from one another as well as communicating on Facebook, Twitter and others.