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The EuroVoice October 2010 THE MANY FACES OF PASSION The EuroVoice October 2010 HBA Europe Board of Directors 2010 The President’s Voice President: Friederike Sommer, Founder Friederike Sommer Training & Consulting The Healthcare Businesswomen‟s President elect: Jolanda Groenhuijzen, Association (HBA) now exists since Managing Director, MyLanda GmbH 1977 as a global not-for-profit Vice-President: Isabelle Buckle, CEO, InGen organization dedicated to Biosciences furthering the advancement of Immediate Past President Barbara Gerber, women in healthcare worldwide. 14 chapters and affiliates throughout Senior Director Client Services Europe, InterbrandHealth the U.S. and in Europe do support efforts. Behind Treasurer: Gabriele Matthias, Research those chapters and affiliates are hundreds of Associate, Novartis Research Foundation FMI dedicated members (women and men) that Secretary: Sabine Aslan, Paris passionately serve and support the organization to its Chapter Mentor: Cathy Sohn, President, SHS successful growth. I want to dedicate this issue of the – Sohn Health Strategies Euro Voice to spend some time on recognizing some of those people and their passion for HBA. Directors at large Passion drives us in everything we do, it is the force behind us giving our best in aspects of life that matter Programs: Dragana Zivkovic to us, it makes us show that we care and are Business Analyst, Novartis Pharma AG committed. It is what keeps us going even when we Mentoring: Britta Luescher, Corporate are tired, what makes us stay long hours in our work, Citizenship and D&I Executive Animal Health, or dedicate our free time to our favorite cause. Novartis Passion is the subtle link that bonds the volunteers of EuroVoice: Silvia Pellegrini, Client Services HBA, men and women who believe in the importance Director, Sentrix Global Health Communications of creating a better place and bigger space for women Corporate Relations: Deborah Wong, in their work environments and ultimately in the Director CI, Novartis Pharma AD world. Passion makes us feel proud for achievements of our fellow colleagues and happy to have a Advocacy: Cherie Faiella, Executive Director, community to share our own achievements with. Office of the Chairman, Ernst&Young LLP Talent Management: Gaia Piraccini, On September 27 we had the first HBA meeting in Managing Director, Mederis Zug, Switzerland, hosted by Amgen AG and co- Marketing: Yasmina Eroglu, Associate sponsored by Janssen Cilag GmbH. 60 Participants Director Specialty Commercialisation, Novartis discussed Personal Leadership Styles and how Pharma AG diversity is key to success. -Continued next page- Women in Science: Christine Billy, Scientific Coordinator, Novartis Pharma AG; Linn Hjortsberh, Project Manager, Archimed Medical Join the Ranks Communications AG PR: Ritalba Lamendola, Associate, Valeocon Not a member yet…? Management Consulting Get Connected - Join today's leaders committed to professional growth for women. Get Involved - Gain powerful networking and leadership opportunities. Get Ahead - Take advantage of career enhancement & learn about industry issues and trends. For more information visit http://www.hbanet.org The EuroVoice October 2010 “The President’s Voice” However, members should be offered the opportunities to not only contribute to the community, but to get an immediate return and we do that by offering ongoing events and workshops. You will find committment and passion at each one of our events refected in burning topics and great discussions. So what will happen while heading up towards the end of the year? Local events are happening continuously, please check our website for detailed information. We would like to congratulate the organisers of two launch events in new regions: Zug (Switzerland) and Frankfurt (Germany). In Frankfurt, the event, hosted by Ernst & Young in Germany and organized by Sanofi-Aventis and Merck Germany, focused on female executives in the healthcare business in Germany. Did you know that Sanofi-Aventis just won this month the Healthcare Businesswomen‟s Association ACE Award for Corporate Programs Advancing Women‟s Careers? October 27-29, the Global Leadership Conference will take place in Philadelphia, focusing on leadership impact delivered. Learn to Innovate, Orchestrate, and Perform at your choice of seminars aligned under these 3 conference themes. Should you be in the US, don‟t miss that opportunity to pass by. November 11 -12, our 3rd HBA Pan European Leadership conference will take place in Basel, Switzerland. You will find in this issue detailed information. I do hope to see you all there. Additionally, we now have newly created the HBA Career Center which offers two levels of job postings. The first is to post only to the HBA site and that offers access to nearly 700 resumes in our database. The second level is the network level. The HBA is a part of the National Healthcare Network, a group of 220 associations with career centers. This option allows employers access to a database of nearly 58,000 resumes. Sincerely yours, Friederike Sommer WOMEN IN SCIENCE (WIS) WIS is an HBA programme dedicated to fostering the advancement of women working in a scientific function. WIS operates in sub-groups who discuss and research topics and then share their findings with the group at large during monthly dinners. The output of the research work can be a publication, training, conference, etc. Each WIS member is offered to either work with a sub-group on an already identified topic or to select a topic on which she wishes to initiate sub-group activities. Sub-groups in Basel and Paris are currently working on: • How do analysts judge an R&D portfolio • How to transition from academia to industry • How to transition from one company to another or from a function to another • Boss/associate relationship and its impact on job satisfaction and career development • Innovation in Europe The EuroVoice October 2010 HBA Pan European Leadership Conference 2010 Basel, 11-12 November 2010 Beyond the Business Case for Women; Moving from Awareness into Action The business case for (gender) diversity is all too familiar. Research has shown that by increasing the number of women at the senior management levels, organizations can become more innovative and boost business performance. Especially organisations with 3 or more women in Senior Management teams have shown to be more successful. However, we still see a gender gap between the number of women at executive level in most healthcare businesses. After Norway, 7 more European countries are considering legislation to set quota for the number of women on boards of major corporations. The conference will focus on the quota question: would this indeed be a successful strategy to improve performance by forcefully increasing the number of women at the executive level? We are seeking the point of view from Corporate boards, Senior HR Professionals and high potential professionals. We are looking to inspire you with talks and discussions on how businesses can better leverage their female workforce with examples from within and from outside the healthcare industry. The Conference starts on the 11th of November at 4 PM with the HBA Europe Annual Business Meeting, followed by an apero and dinner with a keynote speaker. On the 12th of November the opening of the Conference will take place at 8.30 AM and the day will run until 5 PM. Registration fee: Members $210 USD until October 15th (approx. 150 EU) $280 USD after October 15th (approx. 200 EU) Non-Members $385 USD until October 15th (approx. 275 EUR) $490 USD after October15th (approx. 350 EUR) More information on the program and how to register can be found on www.hbanet.org The EuroVoice October 2010 by Sophie Jaeger, Ph.D, Study coordinator and Clinical Research Assistant, Pasteur Hospital, Colmar, France Basel, WIS event, May 11th 2010. Dr. Ida Niklson presented the features of the Burnout Syndrome, an emergent disease of our times. According to its definition , Burnout Syndrome is a state of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It can also be defined as an experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest. It was first defined in 1974 as a “complex state of body and mind” resulting from failed adaptation of engaged persons to requirement of the workplace and/or private life. Core aspects of Burnout Syndrome are emotional exhaustion, depersonalization (everything is black around) and reduced performance ability. The original description was made on volunteers at social institutions, people known to be indeed very committed to what they are doing. When does engagement turn into Burnout? At some point, well-being, engagement, energy and efficiency of involvement turns into exhaustion, cynicism and inefficiency. In between, the person has the ability to cope with pressure and this ability is very individual. Burn out has earlier been thought of as „manager disease‟, however nowadays it is recognized that it is much broader and involves equally people in very different life situations. How does Burnout develop? There are different types of stress: positive stress or eustress, that is useful and stimulates people to perform better and negative stress that causes permanent pressure and damages health. The body is able to physiologically adapt to short-term stress by increase of blood pressure, heart rate and respiration. This provides the energy required to get out of the situation. Facing longer-lasting stress, the body answers with longer-term resistance mechanism. Exhaustion represents the break-down of these adaptive mechanisms. Normally if stress disappears: the body goes back to normal baseline functioning; if stress continues: people develop different kinds of psychosomatic disturbances. If it continues far longer, it can cause a lot of serious diseases and not necessarily burnout symptoms. There are seven stages in Burnout development. The first warning signals can be very individual: increased engagement over time, decreased motivation for other activities and vegetative overreactions. Next steps are reduced engagement and emotional reaction with pessimist inferiority feeling, irritability and a negative self-image.