Awards for Businesses in the West…

Karen Dempster recently judged the Small Business category of the Powercor Greater Western Chamber of Commerce & Industry Business Excellence Awards. This is Karen’s third year in a row of providing her services to assist the GWCCI foster further pride in the business achievements of those based in the west of Melbourne. She would like to congratulate all the winners of the various Award categories, and thank her co-judge David Southwick, for sharing this task in what is a highly entrepreneurial category. David runs a highly responsive events management organization which can be found at www.davidsouthwick.com.au. The many judges also awarded a prize for the “Young Achiever of the Year” that was won by a candidate from the SME sector, Daniel Budjia who runs a great Healthcare insurance organization: www.healthcareassist.com.au. The winners can be found on the GWCCI website www.gwcci.com.au. The winners in the SME category run an exciting service for small business in terms of computer security and backup and their business can be found at www.techonline.com.au.

Have the Andrews Sisters returned ???
No, it is just three wonderful entrepreneurial Aussie women, Helen Robinette of ImageQuest, Karen Dempster of Creating Change and Jeanette Inglis of Dinners for Singles at the launch of rarita' by ferro – the very lovely new jewellery range brought to Melbourne, Australia by our new found friend, Fabio Ferro.

This wicked clan got together to talk business, sip wine and view Unique, elegant jewellery Fabio imported from Italy. Karen and Helen have known each other for some years, Helen running professional image enhancement services and doing speaking engagements through her company. Jeanette has opened a business which helps professional people interact socially through her Dinners for Singles events company. Fabio joined our clan after meeting at the wonderful business network, Club 3004. Karen, Helen and Jeanette are collaborating on a range of projects aimed at improving personal and business lives. Karen runs New Life Now, a program for developing insight to personal interactions and assists singles, partnered/married couples and families to communicate more effectively and enhance their personal lives. (Click on any of the business names to view their websites.)

Calvin will offer companies a free team development session based upon the results of the research if they can assist by providing facilities and encouraging participation from personnel. Personnel will receive feedback on how they can utilize these results within their careers and communicate more effectively within a work environment. Participation from the manufacturing or industrially aligned sectors would be highly beneficial, as it is necessary to balance the “sample” group with participants from diverse career types. If you would like to know more, please email calvin@focusonmanagement.com.au. Calvin has also recently written a Thesis which focused on the first round of this research into Individual Differences and it will soon be available from our Articles page.


Women in Leadership
Karen was also a guest speaker at the Association of Women Educators National Biennial Conference, and delivered a Paper in Queensland on Women, Leadership & Communication. The formal paper presentation is available as a pdf file from our Articles page.