Winslow was proud to sponsor the Property Council of Australia’s regional Girls in Property program last week at the Cotton On Group head offices in Geelong with almost 50 students from three schools in attendance.

The program educates girls on the possibilities that are available across a huge range of career paths that exist within the property industry.

Winslow’s Gosia and Kelly-Marie attended the event to inspire greater female participation and creating a sustainable pipeline of talent for the growing industry.

Girls were split into groups hosted by young industry professionals to learn about different careers in property.

We are proud to introduce our new networking initiative – Women of Winslow.

Its purpose is to encourage and support our full-time female colleagues to connect with each other and the wider business and create opportunities that allow women to support each other.

The Women of Winslow focuses on:

• Building internal relationships and connections with each other;
• Increasing knowledge and awareness of the business;
• Learning from each other;
• Understanding career pathways and development opportunities; and
• Informal mentoring and increasing positive role modelling through stronger connections with likeminded colleagues.

The Women of Winslow mentoring program provides us with the opportunity to come together and to gain feedback from our female colleagues about their networking priorities.

Workshops have been designed to provide knowledge and skills to support women within the Winslow Group in their role as a mentor. 

By coming together, the women have an opportunity to connect as a network and enables them to support each other throughout the program.

Women of Winslow continues to encourage our female employees to stay connected with each other and the wider business by providing opportunities to have conversations that can help support each other.

On Thursday at Hyatt Place Events Centre, Essendon Fields, women from across the Group gathered for a signature event Building Gravitas, which was also attended by business leaders and external partners.

Keynote Speaker, Dr Louise Mahler, discussed the changing face of civil construction where women are entering the workforce for the better. But how do they lead the way?

By building what the Ancient Romans called ‘gravitas’.

Gravitas means your ideas and voice are taken seriously, your input is sought and valued, and you are more likely to gain the trust and respect of those around you.

In an engaging and humorous presentation, Dr Mahler highlighted how simple changes to mannerisms and speech can present as confidence.

“Confidence is competence, and that competence is in the areas of vocal presence, body power and clear and concise messaging,” Dr Mahler said. 

All those who attended the event praised Dr Maher and their first opportunity to meet so many women from around the Group, who can be identified with their one-off Women of Winslow hoodies.

This year, Women of Winslow increased its activity across the business with the commencement of our inhouse Women of Winslow Mentoring program and attending industry events.

It not only builds the positive visibility of women in our business, but also provides important opportunities to understand career pathways and development opportunities through stronger connections with like-minded colleagues.

“I am proud to continue championing Women of Winslow initiatives that enhance connections and provide opportunities for our Women across Winslow,” said Winslow Group General Counsel Amelia Rizzo.

Last week, the final of two workshops for the Women of Winslow mentoring program was held at Marnong Estate.  

Women of Winslow highlights and celebrates positive role modelling of women in positions across our business, by developing training opportunities, capability and diversity that will engage and empower our women to pursue many career opportunities at Winslow confidently.

The mentoring workshops, with the first held in February, were designed as a structured training opportunity to increase knowledge and skills to support women within the Winslow Group in their role as a mentor. 

Our mentors have been active since and the first workshop and the second workshop highlighted the importance of learning from each other.

Winslow’s wholistic approach to learning reinforces the value we place on using and passing on knowledge.

At Winslow, we learn from each other, we stretch and challenge ourselves and provide opportunities of diverse experiences – it’s The Winslow Way.

The inspiring mentoring workshops, hosted by Winslow Group General Counsel Amelia Rizzo, and facilitated by Laurice Temple and Nicole Jordan, enabled the women to have an opportunity to connect as a network and to support each other throughout the program.

The Women of Winslow mentoring program is creating and developing leaders, impacting the culture of Winslow through support, connection and genuine care for each other and their teams back on site.

Winslow is future focused on supporting our women and we believe that “you can’t be what you can’t see”.

Our new mentoring graduates are creating positive energy on our sites – thank you for your active participation and enthusiasm!

Congratulations to all mentoring graduates, whose enthusiasm has made the initiative a success.