We had a fruitful meeting in March with very interesting sharing from various women as our vision for our companies or lives, as Muz led us through the exercise. Many of us started off with something which looked more like goals and action plans but later learnt about ‘vision’ being something which is much bigger, to set the direction/ pace for either our biz or lives.
Most of us were able to share our vision and learned from each others’ very interesting visions from so many varied industries, legal, retail, services etc.
Some of us also discussed about doing a follow-up and accountability check on each other to ensure we have applied what we learn, eg sharing the vision with staff, breaking down the vision into mission, goals, tasks. We found that many of us may have goals written down but not the bigger picture which Muz shared is helpful in decision making, ie when making a key decision, the vision is a very useful guide as to which decision to take. She gave us an excellent example of a vision statement for our own WBS! “Being a role model women entrepreneur organization in Penang”.
We initially intended to just get the new ladies to share about themselves, but as a few thought it would be good to each introduce themselves, we ended up having an interesting time hearing about each other as well as feedback and constructive ideas to build WBS. As Lilian got ladies to share ideas of talks and activities they would like to see on our schedule, we got more than what we bargained for, so looks like there will be many interesting events coming up.
The committee is meeting mid month to come up with the finalized schedule of the year’s fixed meeting dates, venues, etc.
Pam has kindly offered her media office on Nagore Road for our meetings, so that will be the fixed venue unless otherwise stated. However that would be only after renovations in May/ June.
For this month a new lady (Mis Tan Bee Hoon) who recently opened her long time ginseng biz has offered her venue and we will give details soon of the upcoming Fri 30th Apr meet. This would give her a platform to impart her ginseng knowledge to us as well as for us to help promote her biz to others as we ourselves get ‘on site’ and feel/ taste her offerings.
Looking forward to you joining us for future meets and bringing other lady entrepreneurs who can join us to achieve our objective of SENSE (support, education, networking, social responsibility & entrepreneurship)!