Giving Effective Feedback – a key skill for every woman!
Giving effective feedback is an essential skill for every woman at work, home and in your social life. It is even more important as a woman living in an international and culturally diverse group. Catherine Guillou took us through practical examples for giving good feeback and receiving feedback that we could use. What does feedback …
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Three Takeaways from the Talent Fair
On the evening of October 20th, the International Women in Business Düsseldorf (iwibdus) hosted their third Talent Fair. After years of being unable to provide this program due to pandemic, coming together as a community for this particular event felt very special. The event highlighted several features of our network we hold dear, which we will highlight in …
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The Mentoring Program: Benefits for Mentors and Mentees
Introducing the Mentoring Program As part of our continued efforts to highlight the networking and capacity building programs we offer at International Women in Business Düsseldorf (iwibdus), this year we are launching a new blog series about our mentoring program. This is the first of many posts we have planned. What is the Mentoring Program? The Mentoring …
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Guiding our Talent Fair Speakers
International Women in Business Düsseldorf (iwibdus) has been preparing to host our signature networking event, the Talent Fair on October 20th. The objective of this event is to connect members with potential employers and professional connections in the Nordrhein-Westfalen region. The highlight of this focused networking event will be the 12 women who will present themselves to international …
What are the benefits of attendees of the Talent Fair?
What are the benefits of attendees of the Talent Fair? At International Women in Business Düsseldorf (iwibdus) one of our primary objectives is to facilitate networking opportunities for our members. As part of these efforts, we have organized the Talent Fair on October 20th, an event that will connect women in our network with international companies recruiting within …
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Activity Fair at International School of Dusseldorf
Thank you International School of Düsseldorf for inviting us to the Parent’s Activity Fair yesterday. We had some amazing conversations with women, old and new to ISD, about their future career and business plans in Germany. iwibdus is there for women who want to explore what working in Germany could be like, what setting up …
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iwibdus Mentoring Programme 3 – Register Now!
We are happy to announce the start of our next Mentoring Programme, starting in September 2022 and running until March 2023. The Mentoring programme, open to all registered members, is entering its third round and aims to match high quality mentors and mentees! What does the Mentoring Programme include? Mentor partners: Mentee and mentor meet to define and support the mentee’s …
Roundtable Discussion for IWD 2022
8th March 2022 – International Women’s Day 2022 Roundtable discussion : Break the bias! Last week on International Women‘s Day, Iwibdus had their first event for March with a Roundtable discussion: Break the bias! As a new member to the group and therefore my first event, I was both intrigued and uncertain in equal measure; …
Annual General Meeting 2021
The AGM was held on the 9th December 2021 at 8pm. We discussed the 2021 budget to date; the 2022 budget and the membership fees for 2022. The membership unanimously agreed to reduce the membership fee to €100 per year The membership unanimously agreed to reduce the membership fee after September 2022 to €50 The …
Rock Your Profile on LinkedIn Review
We had the amazing Victoria Effer speak to us this week about How to Rock Your Linkedin Profile. It was a really interesting presentation and there were a lot of top tips for us to consider. We began with 4 Myths about LinkedIn: Myth 1 – LinkedIn is just an online resume platform? Not true …
Update from St. George’s
Today we went to St. George’s school to present to their parents about iwibdus. Here’s the report back from Karrie Bishop and Bridget Fields. Thank you for presenting! I think we had about 18 women attend; a mix between military spouses with significant career gaps, expat wives who are on hiatus from their careers for …
Informal Networking Online
We had a great networking event on the evening of 28th Oct. It was held on line and I am impressed how the events team have perfected the technology so that women can move between virtual breakout groups . They meet new women , share tips about life in Dusseldorf and Germany in general and …