Top Ten Tips for Ambassadors
We recommend that you consider undertaking the following activities in your local area to supplement the work SEEDA undertakes at a regional and national level.
- Take time to read the women’s enterprise strategy and familiarise yourself with key statistics about women’s enterprise in the South East.
- Complete the press release template and send it to your local newspaper or company magazine to announce your appointment as an Ambassador – and don’t forget to send a photograph too!
- Unless you have already written your own story, use the case-study guide so you have it ready to send to partners if they contact you.
- Join a local women’s networking group to both give and receive moral support.
- If a topical story breaks in the national media about women in business, why not respond by writing a letter to the Editor of your local newspaper?
- Attend local business networking events to help increase the representation of women at such events.
- Contact local schools and colleges to offer your services as a speaker. Just imagine how your story might motivate and open doors for young women considering their futures!
- Take up the challenge to influence women’s enterprise policy at a local, regional and national level by putting your views forward to policy makers.
- Enter Awards Schemes organised at a local, regional and sector level.
- Tell your friends, family and colleagues that you are a Women’s Ambassador and discuss the importance of women’s contribution to business!
- Celebrate your successes!
