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A Weekly Forum for Professionals in Job Transition

Serving Professionals throughout New England

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UPCOMING WIND NORTH EVENTS - OCTOBER 2003

9:15 AM - New Members' Orientation

10:00AM - General Meeting
Wilmington United Methodist Church
87 Church St. (Rt. 62)
Wilmington, MA

No Workshops are currently posted.

Best Regards,

Fred

Fred Nothnagel
WIND/North Facilitator and Private Career Coach/Consultant
frednothnagel@yahoo.com
Wilmington United Methodist Church
87 Church St. (Rt. 62)
Wilmington, MA
Doors open for guerrilla activity at 8:30
Main meeting begins at 10:00.
Directions: the Wilmington United Methodist Church (church school wing, first floor), 87 Church St. (a.k.a. Rt. 62) in Wilmington.

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Wind South Job Seekers Workshops

Meetings are held at the First Baptist Church, Foxboro, MA, on Mechanic Street, 1.4 miles off exit 8 on Route 95.

QUOTE: "We just keep battling' until we win." a Red Sox Player overheard in the clubhouse

WIND NEWS BRIEFS:
Many of you know that I have met with WIND members for the last two Thursdays in small focus groups. I have had a wonderful time doing this, enjoying both fellowship with the members and learning much in the process. I received several superb suggestions about ways to improve WIND South one of which I discuss below.

One major issue that resonated with many in the focus groups was that networking process at the tables needs improvement. Oftentimes tables are slow to start, they become overcrowded and frequently they are poorly run. At some tables people digress and go on too long while other networkers get little time at all.

Here are the suggestions: to improve the networking process

• Have a period of informal networking in the Lounge area until
  there are enough people to start a table, as opposed to starting a
  table with three or four people which then gradually fills up. The
  people who initially start the table may only speak to two or
  three others whereas the people who join the table 15 minutes
  later get a much larger group to hear them out.
• The informal networking could have some structure, e.g., with some
  suggested topics of general discussion to help break the ice, or
  simple be free form socializing over coffee to help us relax and
  meet old and new WIND members.
• Begin the tables around 8:45 or 8:50am and have a trained
  facilitator at each table to ensure that the process moves along
  and everyone gets about the same amount of time. The facilitators
  can keep track with a timer set for an allotted time. When the
  timer goes off , one speaker ends and another would begin. Using a
  timer takes some of the pressure off the facilitator from having
  to be a strict limit setter. The timer does it for him or her. It
  was also suggested that I ask WIND members for volunteers to
  facilitate at the tables and that I provide some training to those
  who lead the tables. The goal would be to provide a higher quality
  of networking around the tables.
• To raise the quality further each table would have a copy of WIND
  South company contacts available to help the process along.

There were other suggestions which I won't elaborate on here but discuss
at some future time. I will begin to implement these suggestions over
the next two weeks. Let me know how you like them.

No Workshops currently scheduled.

Quote: "The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination." Author Unknown

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Wind East Job Seekers Workshop

For DIRECTIONS to the workshop location, the University Lutheran Church, please visit http://www.unilu.org/about/where.htm

To All WIND Members and Colleagues: Cliff Hakim's book is a must-read. Cliff is an inspiring author and human being, and the time for his main premise was never more right than now. Below is a great opportunity to meet the author.

"Cliff Hakim's We Are All Self-Employed is graced with compelling and persuasive examples that demonstrate the 'hows' of integrating a self-employed attitude into a current job search, or a career transition."

--Mary Jacobsen, author of Hand-Me-Down Dreams: How Families Influence Our
Career Paths and How We Can Reclaim Them

Click on http://www.weareallselfemployed.com for more information about Cliff's book or paste this line into your browser.
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Rethinking Work®
Counsel for Your Purpose,
Passion, and Productivity
617-661-1250
www.rethinkingwork.com

No Workshops are currently posted.

Martin Pierce
WIND East Facilitator www.windnetworking.com
Principal, Work Life Coaching, Belmont, MA "Call for Free 30-Minute Session."
617-489-6611 mpierce@ziplink.net
Employment Specialist, Resource Partnership
508-647-1722 x15; www.resourcepartnership.org
(Need some cool entertainment for your next function? Call me, a singer in
Boston Jazz Voices, a mixed a cappella chorus offering rich harmony in jazz,
swing and popular styles. www.bostonjazzvoices.org.)

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Wind West Job Seekers Workshops

WIND West meets at the Evangelical Congregational Church, in the Vestry, at the intersection of Church and West Main Street, Westboro <three blocks west of Westboro town rotary.

Meeting Directions:

• Exit 23 from Rt. 495, onto Rt. 9 West.
• Right onto E. Main St. (Rt. 30).
• Through rotary, 2 short blocks.
• Look for a white church on the right opposite Rand-Harper Pickering Funeral Home. If you go past St Luke's, on your left, you've gone too far.
• Park in lot between library and church building, near corner of Church St)

Larry facilitates every 1st, 3rd, and 5th Tuesday, Joanne facilitates every 2nd and 4th Tuesday.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: NO WIND WEST MEETING on Tuesday, December 2 2003 due to the Congregational Church 's annual Church Fair. We will resume meeting again on Tuesday , December 9, 2003.

No Workshops are currently posted.

Career Counseling by:

Larry Elle, MSW
Director of Success Associates Career Services
For help finding work you love call 617-325-4521 or see: www.careersuccessassociates.com
For information about WIND meeting times and places see: www.windnetworking.com
Interested in returning to work ASAP?
Consider using the Career Services and Job Search
Coaching available to you at: Success Associates - Larry Elle, Director.

AND

Joanne Meehl, WIND WEST co-Facilitator with Larry
Meehl & Balzotti, www.TheResumeQueen.com
Career Transition for Individuals and Organizations
Home of the "Between the Trapezes" Newsletter
Tel: (978) 928-5793
Fax: (978) 928-3706

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Wind Seacoast Job Seekers Workshops

WIND Seacoast is a professional networking group for people in career transition who want to land new work soon. Since 1990, WIND has provided New England professionals in job, work or career transition a powerful and dependable weekly opportunity to network, sharpen skills and stay motivated and focused. The WIND Seacoast chapter meets most Mondays from 9:00 AM to Noon or so in Portsmouth, NH. at Franklin Pierce College, 73 Corporate Drive, Pease International Tradeport.

WIND members have access to support, resources, speakers, presentations,
workshops, e-mail list service and a diverse network of people and work opportunities. New members only need to arrive at a meeting and register to join. The membership cost is an affordable $15.00 contribution for new members, $10.00 per meeting thereafter. Dress is business casual.


Doors open and coffee is available after 8:30 am, volunteer helpers are welcome at 8:15. Before the presentation at 11, we will have networking and our usual orientation for new members, peer group networking, good news, welcomes, introductions, balance break, needs and leads and landings. WIND members have access to support, resources, speakers, presentations, workshops, e-mail list service and a diverse network of people and work opportunities.

Directions are available at www.windnetworking.com. We welcome you to join
us on Mondays. Newcomers are always welcome. Please call or reply if you have questions and forward this message to friends.

No Workshops are currently posted.

Since 1990, WIND has provided New England professionals in job, work or career transition a powerful and dependable weekly opportunity to network, sharpen skills and stay motivated and focused. The WIND Seacoast chapter, started in November 2002, meets Mondays from 9:00 AM to Noon or so in Portsmouth, NH. at Franklin Pierce College, 73 Corporate Drive, Pease International Tradeport. WIND members have access to support, resources, speakers, presentations, workshops, e-mail list service and a diverse network of people and work opportunities.

New members only need to arrive at a meeting and register to join. The membership cost is an affordable $15.00 contribution for new members, $10.00 per meeting thereafter. Dress is business casual. Doors open and coffee is available after 8:30 am, volunteer helpers are welcome at 8:15. Before the presentation at 11, we will have networking and our usual orientation for new members, peer group networking, good news, welcomes, introductions, balance break, needs and leads and landings. Directions are available at www.windnetworking.com.

We welcome you to join us on Mondays. Newcomers are always welcome.

Please call or reply if you have questions and forward this message to friends.

Please note our Spam Policy: If you are not a subscriber to wind@blu.org or
windseacoast@yahoogroups.com, I am sending you these messages because you have attended WIND Seacoast or inquired or I believe you may be interested and/or can forward this to someone who may be interested. If you prefer not to receive these messages, please let me know and I will remove you. If you receive duplicates, please let me know as well.

Thank you.

Neil Wilson, Facilitator of WIND Seacoast
Office:
Forrester Professional Building,
37 1/2 Forrester Street
(by appointment ONLY)

Mail: PO Box 793, Newburyport, MA 01950

Phone: 978-465-1468
or
(866)-7WILSON (toll free phone)
(866)-794-5766
978-477-0072 (fax)
neil@career-coach.net or
www.career-coach.net

Neil Wilson Career & Life Coach Services: When it's time to plan for the
career of a lifetime, please contact me.

Facing a choice or transition in your career? Want to advance or enhance
your career? I am an experienced career development and planning counselor.
When it's time to plan for the career of your lifetime, please contact me
for a free consultation.

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Job Search Best Practices

Help Us Help Ourselves: Write down below one or two of your ideas that have been confirmed in practice as effective and successful. They can be recent practices from your current job search or from past successful job searches. The results of YOUR efforts and others will be combined into a WIND handout. Please reply via email with your suggestions!

To help you recall some areas where you have been successful think about the following topics:

• Networking
• How you made contact with hiring managers
• Phone work and scripts
• Resumes
• Company Research
• Getting Focused
• Staying Healthy & Managing Stress
• Interviewing Tips
• Salary Negotiation suggestions
• Staying Motivated – who and what helped
• Part-time work as a support/survival strategy?
• Support & Networking Groups – how to use them best
• Best Career/Job Search books to read
• Other topics

Remember, when you network you are a resource sharing your knowledge and wisdom with others while tapping into the world of people and resources that surround you. Your energy joins with theirs to create a greater world of possibility.

Keep networking and building your relationships.
Here's to your success,

Lawrence Elle
WIND/South - WIND/West Facilitator
lelle@ix.netcom.com

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