PWCC Connections Newsletter
October 2018
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Breast Cancer
Awareness Month
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Mission
PWCC provides networking connections that support, enrich and inspire women to advance professionally and personally.
Goals
PWCC brings professional women together in a variety of networking venues to share knowledge, experiences, and resources with other women. Members have access to:
* Facilitated networking opportunities at monthly speaker luncheons
* Special member-only events
* Committee activities
* Board participation
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October Networking Luncheon:
Dr. Lauren Streicher, Medical Director, Center for Sexual Health and Menopause
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Dr. Lauren Streicher, Medical Director, Center for Sexual Health and Menopause
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Union League Club of Chicago
65 West Jackson Blvd.
11:30 am-1:30 pm
$40 members | $60 non-members |
Table of 10 - $500 |
$0 Premier Members and Sponsors, but RSVP is requested.
Must register by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 5 or the price increases by $10
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Register here
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Dr. Streicher is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University’s medical school, The Feinberg School of Medicine and the medical director of the Center for Sexual Health and the Center for Menopause .
Considered a thought leader in her field, Dr. Streicher regularly appears in national and local media outlets discussing all aspects of health. Dr. Streicher is a recurring guest on
The Dr. Oz Show
,
WGN News
, The
Today Show
, The
Steve Harvey Show
,
Good Morning America
,
Fox and Friends
, and
The Meredith Vieira Show
. She has also appeared on
CNN, Nightline, 20/20, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Windy City Live, ABC World News Tonight, and Nightline
,
Her clinical interests include all aspects of women’s health but Dr. Streicher has a particular interest and expertise in menopause and sexual health. In addition to her interest in consumer health education, Dr. Streicher is considered an expert in the academic world. Dr. Streicher does research, publishes in the scientific literature, and devotes significant time to teaching residents and medical students.
Dr. Streicher is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a Diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a member of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, Inc., The International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, The Scientific Network on Female Sexual Health and Cancer, The Association for Gynecologic Laparoscopy. She is also a Certified Menopause Practitioner of The North American Menopause Society.
Don't miss this important and informative discussion -
register
today!
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Fall Fête - PWCC's 20th Anniversary Celebration
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Sign up today
for our 20th Anniversary Celebration - PWCC's Fall
Fête
Sponsorship opportunities are still available,
learn more
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Questions? Call PWCC at (312) 263-1808.
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Table Facilitator Training
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Kershner Sledziewski Law, LLC
9 West Washington Street, Suite 400
No Fee to Participate | Open to PWCC Members Only
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Want to learn how to be a Table facilitator at one of our monthly luncheons? Come to this mandatory training and find out. Open to PWCC members. Lunch will be provided.
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October Tip for Smarter Living: How to be a Professional Socializer
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Some of us were born with the “work the room like a pro” gene: you enter the room by yourself and leave with multiple new friends and contacts.
For the rest of us, entering a room alone, perhaps not knowing anyone, is a painful event.
So how can we socialize like a pro even when we’d rather stay home?
- Have a reason to go. Do you want to make a business connection? Meet a new friend? To relax? To have a good conversation? To taste some new food or wine? Get your purpose firmly in mind as it will help you prepare for the event.
- Brainstorm things to talk about. If you have your purpose for attending in mind, you can now brainstorm some appropriate topics for conversation. While you ultimately might not stick to these topics, being prepared helps you feel more confident.
- Once you have a purpose and conversation topics in mind, you need to enter the room. Making eye contact and smiling are stellar ways to engage with someone; if the thought of doing so doesn’t calm you down, give yourself a job. Look for the host and ask how to be helpful. You are instantly interacting with someone and also being useful: things that help us overcome anxiety.
- Say hello and be genuine. Engage in small talk – doing so is more important than you think. All relationships, whether personal or professional, begin with small conversations. It’s ok to ask about things like birthplace, current films, transportation to/from the gathering, and sports. Remember: you’re building relationships!
- Put your phone away. While it may seem like a shield, it’s actually a barrier: looking at your phone keeps you looking down, not making eye contact.
Finally, practicing socializing helps you develop the confidence to do so like a pro. See you at lunch or at the upcoming October
Fall Fête
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PWCC Blog: Make October the Month You Concentrate on Your Health!
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October is “Breast Cancer Awareness” month and a good time to schedule your yearly mammogram. But the month can also be a good time to focus on keeping yourself as healthy as possible – something women with busy personal and professional lives often find difficult to do.
So what should we be doing to stay healthy?
Exercise
always is on the top of a list of healthy habits. Cardio is important but so is resistance training. So much has been written about the minutes we need to spending exercising each week that it’s easy to feel you’re not doing enough. This
article
from the Mayo Clinic offers some commonsense guidelines.
Sleep
is also always on the top of a “get/stay healthy” list. How much is enough – 6 hours? 8 hours? A full night’s or chunks of sleep? This article from
Healthy Woman
explores why we need the sleep that we do and this
article
has some good tips on ways to improve the sleep you get.
The
food you eat
is also important to remaining healthy. But with SO many different approaches to food, how do we make sense of everything that we read about what’s good and what’s not? Organic? Raw? Three meals or six? Can’t we really just take supplements to keep us healthy? The
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
offers this guideline;
womenshealth.gov
offers another view of commonsense healthy eating.
To this albeit less-than comprehensive list of things we should be doing to remain healthy, here’s a
guide
from healthline.com outlining the kinds of
medical exams/tests
we should have annually.
Let’s use this month for focus on being healthy!
Submitted by:
Carol Jambor-Smith, Ph.D.,
Founder and Principal, Jambor-Smith Communications
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Networking Tip for October
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PWCC encourages all of us to develop relationships that are both personally and professionally satisfying. Think about the many women you have the potential to meet at each luncheon!
As we meet new people, there are times when we need to rekindle networking contacts that have gone “cold’: maybe you’re back on the job market or are exploring new professional pursuits
Because it can be awkward reaching out to someone to ask for help after not speaking for a while, it's important to go about rekindling old networking relationships the right way. Here are five tips to do so gracefully:
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Remind your contact of a personal experience you shared from your work or personal lives. This serves to “prove” the importance of your past connection.
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Second, be very specific with your ask. If you would like to meet, provide dates and times they can select from.
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Reach out to past contacts for thoughts or insights about their company, industry, or where they see a specific job field moving. Don't ask them about a job. People enjoy talking when they are viewed as knowledgeable, and they will always ask why you're interested.
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Customize every contact with former colleagues or friends, no matter how long it has been. Anything sounding like an email blast or copy/paste job is not going to be received well. Acknowledge the time that has passed between now and the last time you were in touch.
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Look for ways to offer advice and share an article you think would be of interest.
Each month PWCC offers you many ways to build your networking skills. Practice these skills by rebuilding your past connections!
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Mentoring Tip for October
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PWCC has always been at the forefront of women’s professional development, something to celebrate during this 20
th anniversary year!
Among the ways PWCC empowers women: its support of mentoring relationships. As proof of the potential positive impact mentoring can have on a woman’s career, here are links to recent articles on the importance of mentoring relationships:
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Calling all PWCC Members!
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Do you have some news to share? Do you have a recent accomplishment that you'd like to highlight? Submit your professional or personal news to
admin@pwcc.org
for consideration in an upcoming newsletter. It's a great way to share your accomplishments and continue to build and grow your PWCC Connections.
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Our 2018/2019 Luncheon Events Schedule is available
here
. Mark your calendars and save the dates for these great events. Remember: non-members may only attend one progressive luncheon and one speaker luncheon in any membership year (September - June). So
become a PWCC member
now!
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Connections & Conversations
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All First Timers, Experienced Members and Guests are Welcome.
Join us at 11am, prior to every luncheon at the Union League Club, to learn about the Professional Women's Club of Chicago and membership engagement. Ask questions, participate in discussions about PWCC, and network during this brief, 30-minute meeting.
Our next Connections & Conversations Event is
Wednesday, October 10 at 11 am
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Please join PWCC in welcoming these new members who joined during September 2018:
Jessica Ambrose, Amazon
Joanne Callahan, Teching Together Chicago
Karen Covy, The Law Offices of Karen A Covy PC
Rebecca Fyffe, Landmark Pest Management
Kathleen Kelleher, Capgemini
Catherine McClure, Zing Zang LLC
Alma Pajova, Wells Fargo Advisors
Maureen Wright, Huber Financial Advisors, LLC
Rachel Zwell, Wright Foundation
New Members:
Be sure to look for our New Member Ambassadors with their Red Ribbons affixed to their nametags at our next luncheon. The Ambassadors are keen to help you feel welcome,
comfortable, and introduce you to opportunities available within PWCC.
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All reservations for the monthly luncheons are requested no later than 5:00 p.m. the Friday before the luncheon. Anyone reserving after
Friday, October 5th
, at 5:00 p.m. is subject to a $10 late charge and seating availability.
Please help PWCC and the Union League Club make the monthly luncheon experience a great one and reserve on time and observe their
dress code policy
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