4th
Young BPW International Meeting “Preparing
Leaders for the 21st Century”
The
4th Young BPW International meeting successfully
took place in Seoul, South Korea from 10–
13 May 2007. The Young BPW members from
different parts of the world participated
in this auspicious event and experienced
international learning and friendship as
well as enjoy the rich Korean culture and
hospitality.
10
May 2007 Field Trip
Young BPW members participated in a field
trip to Ubiquitous Exhibition Canter, Ministry
of Information & Communication, and
Innovation Hall, Ministry of Government
Administration and Home Affairs. They get
to see experience the advance high-tech
side of Korea.
11
May 2007 Young BPW Meeting
Young BPW members attended several fruitful
sessions, including the talks on the Benefits
of BPW for Young Business and Professional
Women, New Dimensions of Leadership, Capacity
building for Young women, BPW Mentoring
programs, experience from attending United
Nations meetings, E-Business training experience,
IDP training the trainers experience. The
Young BPW members also participated in brainstorming
sessions on the organization review and
reform and get to present their ideas, suggestions
for BPW and Young BPW network.
12
May 2007 BPW – Sookmyung Women Univeristy
“Global Leadership Workshop”
For the first time professional university
training was organized just for Young BPW
members to enhance their careers by giving
them an international certification from
a well recognized university. The full 2
years leadership program of Sookmyung Women
University have successfully educated over
15,000 college students in the past years.
For this occasion, the university formulates
a one day workshop version, which included
topics like Global Women Leadership by President
of Sookmyung Women University, Building
strong and competitive corporate culture
by former CEO of General Electric (GE) Korea.
Other topics included Sympathetic communication,
conflict management, creativity and planning,
which were present by experts of the field.
The program is very educational.
13
May 2007 Young BPW Awards Presentation
In evening of 13 May 2007, the Grand Reception
and Award Presentation Event hosted by the
Mayor of Seoul, two awards for Young BPW
(which I initiated on the occasion of International
Youth Day), were presented by International
President, Chonchanok Viravan
1.
Empower the Youth Award
– This award was for the best BPW
initiative taken for the development of
Young BPW members and / or Young women
in the community. BPW Australia won this
award for implementing the idea of operating
Young BPW program through Young BPW Board.
This project became a reality due to hard
work, joint efforts and effective partnership
between Young BPW and BPW members of Australia.
2.
Young BPW at Work Award
– This award was given to the best
community project initiated by the Young
BPWs to work for the betterment of the
community and bring good name to the network.
This award was won by Young BPW of Cayman
Islands.
It
has been a learning experience that accompanied
by a lot of fun activities like shopping,
cultural shows; music and dance which allowed
our members to enjoy, network and learn
more about the city of Seoul.
Rooma
Para
Young BPW International Committee Chair |
