Silicon Valley Women in HR...& Friends Mailing and Event Announcement

Dear Friends,

I hope you enjoyed the holiday season and that 2017 will be a great year for you.

I am so grateful for the people in this group: the diligent volunteers who plan our events, kind people who provide space for us to meet, our terrific speakers, and our wonderful attendees. Thank you all for making this such a great group.

We have several events coming up and here's the list:

  -  1/10/17 Deadline to submit to be a speaker. Please read more and complete the form if you’re interested. 

  -  1/11/17 Annual Meeting of Volunteers - click on this link to learn more.

  -  1/18/17 "The 4G Workforce — Do Your Leaders Know How to Work with the New Generation?" Guest Speaker: Nancy Clark. 

  -  2/19/17 - Our 20th Anniversary! 

Our January 18, 2017 Community Event: The 4G Workforce — Do Your Leaders Know How to Work with the New Generation?

Nancy Clark is our next speaker and she will be discussing our four generations in the workplace – Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X’ers and Millennials. Please see the event details and RSVP link by clicking here.

We’re celebrating our 20th Anniversary on February 19! Please see details on our Evite. I sincerely hope you can join us for a lovely champagne buffet and fashion show.  

Thank You for Our Last Event

Marilyn Messer, our long-time volunteer and one of our original members from our first fateful meeting planned our year-end dinner. It was fun to meet with people over dinner and I enjoyed that evening. Thanks so much, Marilyn!

Not only do I hope to see you at our next event, I do hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to plan some extra networking events. I would love to attend some!

Best wishes for a happy, healthy and successful year!

All the best,

Marcia

Marcia Stein, SHRM-CP, PHR

Author: "Strained Relations: Help for Struggling Parents of Troubled Teens" and "Recruiters on Recruiting” Site

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Silicon Valley Women in HR...& Friends Mailing and Event Announcement

Dear Friends,

I hope you're well and that you'll enjoy this holiday season. For many, it's a time of hurry up, have lots of stress, and try to fit everything in before we get to 2017. Take good care of yourself and find simple ways to relax and have fun.

We hold formal meetings once every two months, and for those in-between months, we encourage you to plan coffee, lunch, dinner or an event on your own! You can use our LinkedIn group to publicize your event. 

Our December 14 Year-End Community Dinner

Marilyn Messer and I invite you to attend our annual dinner. It's a nice time to relax and get to know each other a little better. Please see the event details and RSVP link by clicking here.

The 1/11/17 Annual Meeting for Volunteers
Have you considered volunteering to help our group? Please see details here. 

We have Volunteers for our February Event: Celebrating 20 Years!

This February our group will be celebrating our 20th anniversary. We have some volunteers and will provide event details in January.

Our Mailing List: Please Join Our LinkedIn Group

Please join our group on LinkedIn so you’ll be updated on announcements and posts. Because it is much easier to send mail through LinkedIn than my home email, I strongly encourage you to join the group. You can post articles of interest, questions, meetings, resumes and jobs.

Thank You for Our Last Event

Ned Kraft provided an interesting topic about our 3 glass ceilings: personal, managerial and organizational. I've had a lot of discussions over the years about managing managerial and organizational ceilings, but the one that hits home the most is the personal. It was an interesting discussion and I appreciate Ned's perspective. Thank you, Ned! Shelly Morales, SPHR was our host at Cadence and they were very generous with their space and catered appetizers. Thank you, Shelly!

Not only do I hope to see you at our next event, I do hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to plan some extra networking events. I would love to attend some!

All the best,

Marcia

Marcia Stein, SHRM-CP, PHR

Author: "Strained Relations: Help for Struggling Parents of Troubled Teens" and "Recruiters on Recruiting” Site

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Silicon Valley Women in HR...& Friends Mailing and Event Announcement

Dear Friends,

How are you? 

I can’t believe how late it is in the year. Halloween and Christmas displays are in the stores. It’s like a time warp.

Bill and I have been thinking about the next several years, and sometime in the future, we’ll retire. We haven’t picked a date yet - Bill loves his work! - but retirement is more than just staying at home. There are decisions to make. When do you take Social Security? What about Medicare? How much have we saved and what does that mean for retirement? Will we retire in place or move? What will we do all day to stay busy, engaged and have meaningful interests? How will we make new friends if we move?

I’ve learned that many people have these questions, and I’m sharing some of the information I’ve collected in a new site. This started as a way for me to keep my own bookmarks organized and I hope it will help others. Click here to go to the site and let me know if you have feedback or ideas for articles.

We hold formal meetings once every two months, and for those in-between months, we encourage you to plan coffee, lunch, dinner or an event on your own! You can use our LinkedIn group to publicize your event. This will give you some latitude in location and timing, and that should help more of us come out and meet each other.

Today I'm writing about our November event and two requests. 

Our November 16 Community Event

Ned Kraft is our next speaker and he’ll review the 3 glass ceilings: personal, managerial and organizational, and he has specific steps we can take to maximize our effectiveness. Please see the event details and RSVP link by clicking here.

Seeking Volunteers for our February Event: Celebrating 20 Years!

This February our group will be celebrating our 20th anniversary. Would you like to volunteer to help me plan a little celebration dinner? If so, please complete this form.

Our Mailing List: Please Join Our LinkedIn Group

Please join our group on LinkedIn so you’ll be updated on announcements and posts. Because it is much easier to send mail through LinkedIn than my home email, I strongly encourage you to join the group. You can post articles of interest, questions, meetings, resumes and jobs.

Thank You for Our Last Event

Idit Stefanson, CEBS, PHR and Belina Pignataro were our volunteers and did a wonderful job, as always. Our speaker and long-time member Rebecca Linquist, Linguist and Speech Coach with a focus on foreign-born execs, provided some exercises to improve our speech and voice quality. 

Not only do I hope to see you at our next event, I do hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to plan some extra networking events. I would love to attend some!

All the best,

Marcia

Marcia Stein, SHRM-CP, PHR

Author: "Strained Relations: Help for Struggling Parents of Troubled Teens" and "Recruiters on Recruiting” Site

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Silicon Valley Women in HR...& Friends Mailing and Event Announcement

Dear Friends,

How are you doing? Isn't this a beautiful September?

We hold formal meetings once every two months, and for those in-between months, we encourage you to plan coffee, lunch, dinner or an event on your own. You can use our LinkedIn group to publicize your event. This will give you some latitude in location and timing, and that should help more of us come out and meet each other.

I have to update this post as I saw something I had to share. On LinkedIn there was an article about people working killer hours and how this was unproductive. Here's part of a response from a man named Peter Nolan: "One of the reasons that no fortune 500 company has ever been founded by women is exactly because men are willing to work crazy hours for peanuts running the risk that the company will be successful. Women, in general, are not willing to work those same hours based on the same risk reward profile because they don't have to. They can simply marry a man who does this and gain most of the benefits without the work....."

What do you think of that? I was stunned!

Our September 21 Community Event

Our next speaker is our long-time member and volunteer, Rebecca Linquist. Her topic is "The Voice of Leadership." Learn how to evaluate your own voice quality and determine what is preventing you from having a fuller, richer voice, and discover tools you can use to improve your voice quality and change how others perceive you when you speak. Please see the event details and RSVP link by clicking here.

Please Join Our LinkedIn Group or Subscribe to this Blog

Please join our group on LinkedIn so you’ll be updated on announcements and posts. Because it is much easier to send mail through LinkedIn than my home email, I strongly encourage you to join the group. You can post articles of interest, questions, meetings, resumes and jobs. Starting in January 2017, I will no longer send group emails from my personal address. If you're not on LinkedIn, you can follow this blog for announcements and updates.

Thank You for Our Last Event
Vinnie Warren was our volunteer and our panelists included Jack Warren,  Lesley Hunter and Laney Donahue-Nott. There were some excellent insights into recruiting for job seekers and recruiters.

Not only do I hope to see you at our next event, I do hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to plan some extra networking events. I would love to attend some!

All the best,

Marcia

Marcia Stein, SHRM-CP, PHR

Author: "Strained Relations: Help for Struggling Parents of Troubled Teens" and "Recruiters on Recruiting"

      



   

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