Women Everywhere Connect (WeConnect) is an employee resource group uniting AFL women in the Duncan area, who aim to foster professional education, personal growth and enrichment opportunities via continuous learning, sharing, and networking. Because AFL is a company that champions diversity, we want to celebrate women who choose to pursue careers in manufacturing and the difference they make to our workforce.
Why WeConnect?
AFL's WeConnect Community aspires to accomplish the following objectives:
- Empower women with resources and information to positively impact their careers
- Educate women to choose careers in manufacturing
- Enrich AFL's culture to support a diverse workforce
- Encourage women to share perspectives, improve leadership and build networking/communication skills with peer groups
- Enhance emotional intelligence levels throughout AFL – negotiation skills, handling conflict and navigating difficult conversations.
The AFL WeConnect advisory team promises to deliver on the following associate benefits:
- Planned social gatherings at the local/regional level
- Professional development and learning events
- Opportunity to learn from AFL, industry and regional professionals
- Access to Women in Manufacturing association member benefits
- Informal career guidance and coaching
The current WeConnect group is designed for women in managerial or office-type positions. The shift schedules for manufacturing/shop floor positions make it difficult to combine the groups. We are working on a program that will better fit the manufacturing positions.
Join WeConnect
If you are interested in joining AFL WeConnect or contacting advisory members, please visit our WeConnect intranet page. You must be logged in to the AFL network to access this link.