What is the difference between male and female leaders? What are the pluses that add to you being a woman leader? How do you empower the woman leader in you? What are the pitfalls you could encounter on your journey in business?

Hear woman leaders in Hong Kong share their experiences, share their concerns and their successes and learn from their mistakes.  We are inviting men and women executives to experience this long awaited seminar.  Reservation form attached  - please fax and post payment to Best Practice Management to ensure yourself a spot!  If you fill in the attached booking form,  you will receive 10 percent off the booking fee and 10 percent of your contribution will be donated by Best Practice Management to the Hong Kong Association of Business and Professional Women's Bursary Fund for 2002 which supports a young woman pursuing an education in an untraditional field of study.

Key areas to be discussed include:
An Unconventional Approach to Recruit & Train, by Ms. Elsa Pau, Group Managing Director of Allen Perkins Ltd.
Elsa has been instrumental in the growth of Allen Perkins from a 3-member organization to over 100 employees today with almost a zero labor turnover rate. Elsa believes ‘Out-of-the-Box’ thinking to be a major ingredient to be a successful recruit. They train and promote their employees in an unconventional manner. So, what is the secret recipe that makes Allen Perkins the best place to work and why have they never lost an employee? How do they recruit and how do they train? Elsa will give us an insight on the same.
 
Crisis Management by Ms. Quince Chong, General Manager of Inflight Services Dept., Cathay Pacific Airways
Quince is the winner of the "Best Crisis Management Award" in the Asian PR Awards 1999 for her involvement in the pilots’ dispute. What should you do when encountered with a crisis? How to handle it effectively? Quince will share her experiences with us on the same.
 
Handling Stress Effectively to Increase Productivity by Dr. Jenny Anderson, General Practitioner in Family Medicine
Hong Kong being a fast city, stress has become an integral part of our business life. But, what causes stress? How can you prevent it? How can you counter it? Jenny will tell us how to handle stress effectively to increase your employee productivity.
 
Rights – Know Them; Legal Issues – Tackle Them by Ms. Anne Chen, Consultant with Wilkinson & Grist
Anne specializes in IT, corporate finance, IP and commercial areas. She helps clients with their incorporation and provision of services, employment and stock option, data protection and confidentiality, licensing and assignments, customization and outsourcing, mergers & acquisitions,  reorganization and takeovers, joint ventures and strategic alliances, to fund-raising exercises,  IPOs (initial public offerings), spin-offs and compliance.
 
Hong Kong - A Melting Pot of Cultures -- by Ms. Therese Necio-Ortega, Director of Communications, JW Marriott Hotel
How do you handle your employees who come from different backgrounds and cultures? How do you ensure employee loyalty remains despite differences in culture? How do you interact to make every employee feel a part of the organisation? Therese will tell us how best to handle your employees effectively though they come from different backgrounds and cultures.

Manage the Time in Your Hands Effectively by Dr. Rosann Santora Kao, Counsellor
Rosann is the Director of Educational Consultants. Her research interests centre on cross-cultural issues related to the vocational development of women. Her talk centres on a comparison of how women use time and how some women have created time for the work they love.
 
Profitable Partnerships in Franchising by Dr. Stella Kwan, General Manager, Dymocks
Franchising has been famed as the most powerful marketing method known in the modern business world.  It is evident that franchising will increasingly drive a significant proportion of our economic growth. Franchising is more than a franchise agreement and system.   It is about leadership, commitment, trust, mutual respect and communication which are the real building blocks of success in a franchise chain.
Stella will explore the true spirit of franchising and how partnering relationships flourish for both franchisors and franchisees.
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