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This section will house meeting minutes of the ASQ St. Louis Leadership Committee (LC) meetings. The LC usually meets on the second Tuesday of each month. Minutes of one LC meeting are approved in the following month’s meeting.

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LC Minutes 11-09-10

Section 1304
Minutes of 11-9-10
At Pujols 5, in St. Louis, MO
Prepared 11-9-10

Participants: Tony Indihar, Mary Ellen Rowland, Kunita Gear, Randy Thompson, Steve Hyland, Will Meyer, Linh Dye, Ed Vallorani, Kim Rochetti, John O’Reilly, Denise Arthur, Jim Ebone

1. Meeting called to order at 6:04PM by John O’Reilly
2. Minutes Approval as prepared by Denise – It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the minutes as revised.
3. Financial Report by Randy – We made money on first meeting but not on second meeting. Account information for October, CD Balance $65,621.02, Checking Balance $16,189.63, No additional deposits, 3 outstanding checks for $567.32, Petty Cash $150.00 Total section balance at reconciliation $81,393.33 Bounced check (for $60 + $6 service fee) still outstanding from May meeting. Money market account coming due. Will look for some options to make more interest. No additional updates to report.
4. QMP report by Steve - Review of results from Dinner Meeting Survey from October meeting. Concern that October speakers rated low (Speaker #1 3.74 and Speaker #2 3.81) and both scored below QMP goal of 4.00. Facility rated well at 4.10. Suggest updating survey to more closely match industry standards was discussed. Will add new question,” How likely are you to recommend us?” and use net promoter score for the calculation.
5. Education by Ed - Exam Refresher Class three in works and will be posted by end of month. Next time CQM taught by Steve Mundwiller.. Will Meyer will combine two classes CQI first and then CQI/CQT run a week later then finish with CQT. Tom Frase will teach CSSBB at the Chesterfield Valley location where there is no rent. CRE class will be taught by Steve Hyland. Marketing will start when locations lined up.
6. Certification Exams by Mary Ellen - 77 people will be taking the exam December 4th. There are seven proctors currently volunteering and a few people have volunteers to be a backup. We will need to use upstairs and downstairs of the testing area. Do not have a final pass number at this time for last exam round.
7. Spring Conference Update by Kim - Kim shared agenda, timeline and topics of meetings for Spring Conference planning. The next meeting is at the end of the month. All work that is being done this year is being documented so next year it will be simpler. Gantt chart illustrates the time line. Kim will share workbook with anyone who is interested. Agenda for event is almost complete. List of key notes and backup keynotes have been identified. We have one sponsor at this time. Kim requested that everyone ask their organization to see if they can get sponsors. Sponsor letter created and will go out to all members. All information concerning conference will be posted to website when available. Next plans will be discussing workshops and gifts.
Linh said we can use the tools from the National ASQ site for our chapter to promote the event. Mary Ellen will coordinate the testing for the conference.
8. December 7 Meeting updates by John and Kim – Volunteers Visionquest with 6 topics. Brainstorm topics with rotating groups. Discuss the findings at the end of the meeting and then analyze at next meeting. Will can bring an easel, Kim will bring an easel, John will look into tabletop easels. Ed, Kunita, Kim, Randy, John, and Denise will volunteer on manning the easels. Plans to send several email blasts about meeting.

9. Future Meeting Speakers by John - Jan 18 and Feb 15 are in the works and future speakers such as Jim Duarte and some of the key notes speakers could be possibilities. Discussion about nomination for chair elections for March meeting. January meeting will discuss how the nominations and elections work.

10. Officers for 2011-2012/ New LC by John – We will start discussing nominations at January meeting including the nomination process. Ed discussed that at another organization he was involved with had documents about what the chair is and the expectations. Mike Lee will be joining the LC group and then will be determined what area he would be interested in.

11. Around the Table
Tony – Set for Westport in December and Favazzas in January, undetermined for Feb and Dave and Busters for March.
Mary Ellen – Pass
Kunita- Pass
Randy – Suggest private room for next meeting to help decrease some of the background noise.
Steve – Requirements for scholarship need to be high school graduate but going to college. Suggest changing high school graduate to include high school equivalent.
Jim – Friday Facts is really nice and should be shared. John shared that it is a benefit for those in leadership.
Will – Only 6 recerts since last month and has been going down. 4 members have lost their certification. 8 – 12 possible for this round. 20 people are due for December.
Linh – Kim Thompson has not responded to request for changing the link to our website. Currently, it is going to a different site. The ASQ National site has a spot for our section to be able to make announcements about our site. Linh would like to have John get access to the site so she can update it.
Ed – Pass
Denise – Pass
Kim – Workshops if they won’t be at the spring conference when should we talk about. Ed has an idea to talk about how to prepare for pharmaceutical exam, Rod Toro for ISO, Food industry, HSSP, workshops for niche certifications.
John - Pass

Adjourn 8:00

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LC Meeting Minutes 10-12-2010

Section 1304

Minutes of 10-12-10 ASQ Leadership Committee Meeting

At India Palace, in St. Louis, MO

Prepared 10-12-10 by Denise Arthur

 

Participants:      John O’Reilly, Kim Rochetti, Randy Thompson, Will Meyer, Linh Dye, Ed Vallorani, Kunita Gear, Tony Indihar

  1. Meeting called to order at 6:00 PM by John O’Reilly
  2. Minutes Approved as prepared by Kim - It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the minutes as revised.
  3. Financial Report by Randy – As of 9/30, the CD balance is $65,599.45, checking balance is $20,034.43, outstanding checks (9) for $6,186.77, petty cash of $150, for a total of $79,597.11.  September balance has reconciled.  Financial information was submitted to ASQ National. No checks from 123 signup.  Linh Dye will check with 123 sign-up and find out where the check is.  A financial report comes monthly from 123 can be printed.  Linh will send Randy Financial reports from July to present to reconcile.   A bounced check has not been recovered from May and will be issuing a letter to them.  35 people have signed up for the October meeting Linh will send a reminder to members to encourage additional attendance and Kunita will help at registration.   It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept financial report.
  4. QMP Report (formerly SMP)  Reported by John in Steve’s absence.  93 people at last meeting. 
    1. Location:  4.55 rating. 
    2. Food:  4.33 rating on food. 
    3. Speakers:

1.       Kim:  4.58

2.       Bill:   3.67

  1. Certification Exam  Reported by John in Mary Ellen’s absence.   42 people registered and 12 no show for exam. Overlap between CQI and CQT.  Will enjoyed teaching class and agreed to sign up again to teach spring class.  Suggestion to check pass rate for those who take the class and those who don’t.  Ed will send survey results for class instructors.  Agreed that people can audit class after paying for the class the first time.
  2. Education by Ed -  We made money on first class session but losing money on second session.  Green belt class was cancelled due to low enrollment.  Kunita asked to check with national ASQ to find the trends on green belt exam.   Ed is looking for more inexpensive locations to have class to save money.   Kunita suggested checking on some of the larger churches.  Steve will have CQM at his office at no charge.  Kim’s students said that her location was agreeable to location and Saturday was an OK day for the class.  Will suggested looking in to the Lean certification class.  Ed motioned that instructors who  prepare for a class that then gets cancelled due to low enrollment be reimbursed for that preparation time.  Group agreed that they get a gift card for $50. It was suggested that this instructor might be interested in being a speaker at a dinner meeting.  Ed will ask him if he would be interested in giving a presentation.   People who have signed up for the cancelled class will be credited. 
  3.  Membership by Kunita -  196 not paid  1053 members.  Need membership access database from Eric or Kim Thomson. 

Other topics surfaced by other LC during membership discussion were; program chair, social media, and backup for Web site  Also, suggested having a program committee.  An idea was to have LC chair ask for volunteers to help at the meeting and to also add volunteer requests onto the meeting survey. 

 

  1. Web Site by Linh - Two scholarship awards need to be posted for inspector scholarship from ASQ.  One new job posted.  John has a few other ones need to be posted.  John would like to get the local location for exams on the National ASQ web site.  Linh noticed that the link from ASQ to the 1304 chapter is incorrect and will contact Kim Thomson at ASQ to make the corrections.  Would like to start marketing the spring conference on ASQ site. Kim will forward what she has to Linh.
  2. Future meeting speakers by John and Kim -  November/December will be used to gather ideas from members.  Kim would like to have helpers at each station to facilitate gathering members brainstorming ideas.  Kunita, Kim, Denise, John,  and Ed will man each station.  Will volunteered to  be back up as a presenter and would cover recertification and exam info. 
  3. Spring conference by John and Kim.  Suggestion to have sign up sheet for volunteers for spring conference at monthly meetings.  Discussion on what volunteers get RU and discount or free into conference.  May need 10 volunteers outside of the Leadership group.  Kim has a workbook for the Spring conference that has been created from a compilation of information.   The plan will be that this workbook will be used going for future conferences.  Theme ideas ‘Future of Quality’ or ‘Quality Today and Tomorrow’.  Want to start advertising at all the meetings.  Handouts and volunteer sheets should be available for next meeting.   Location at Crown Plaza in Clayton.  Wednesday and Thursday April 13th and 14th.  Still need any additional speakers and keynote speakers.   Idea to have an entertaining person for the lunch speaker who does not necessarily have to be quality related topic.   Staffing needs for conference:  Proctor, 4-6 room monitor, 3 book sales, and 4 registration people.  Kim will develop a final recommendation to LC to vote.
  4. What can I do to help?  Who else should be on leadership committee? 
  5. Around the table
    1.  Randy - Linh to bring labels to order number.
    2.  Will - international students loved Kim’s presentation. 
    3. Linh – needs backup for labels for meeting and Kim volunteered.
    4. Ed- pass.
    5. Kunita- Suggest improving the meeting survey process to ensure that we understood who was responsible for bringing the surveys to guard against having a meeting where no survey was available.  Plan to still having Qualtric survey in conjunction with Vision Quest to enable capturing those members who will not be at the November/December meeting. 
    6. Tony – no scholarship applications.  Orlando Gardens and Gold tower location set. Special food needs will cost a bit more.
    7. Denise – pass. 
    8. Kim – Pass.
    9. John – pass

Meeting adjourn  8:30

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LC Meeting Minutes 9-14-2010

Section 1304

Minutes of 9-14-10 ASQ Leadership Committee Meeting

At Pat’s, in St. Louis, MO

Prepared 9-14-10 by Kim Rochetti

 

Participants:      John O’Reilly, Ed Vallorani, Randy Thompson, Kim Rochetti, Lihn Dye, Tony Indihar, Jim Ebone, Steve Hyland, Kunita Gear

                       

1.         Meeting called to order at 6:03 PM by John O’Reilly

 

2.         Minutes Approved as prepared by Denise - It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the minutes as prepared.

 

3.         Financial Report by Randy – As of 8/31, the CD balance is $65,577.18, checking balance is $18,666.61, outstanding checks (3) for $3091.81, petty cash of $150, for a total of $81,301.98.  Hand-off duties are complete.  People needed to run registration next week.  We have a balanced check of $60 plus $6.  It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept financial report.

 

4.         QMP 2010-2011 – Need to request members to answer surveys sent out by ASQ National or we can be docked toward our award.  Surveys go out in the spring.  QMP goals same as last year, we just don’t know how the economy will be.  Eric uses Access data base for retention data, he will continue to do so.  Goals were reviewed and revised.  It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the QMP revised report.

 

5.         Certification/Exams -  46 registered

           

6.         Financial Plan for 2010-2011 by John  – Reviewed budget with LC and made  adjustments per estimated needs for the year.  It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the revised budget.

 

7.         Spring Conference April 14 by Kim – Handed out Project Management schedule for review by the LC.  Comments are needed from the LC by Sept. 30.

 

8.         September Meeting/Volunteers -   Registration, bar, and cooking volunteers were obtained.  Three attendance prizes that will be given out will be added to the email blast. 

 

9.         Future Meeting Speakers -

•           Dan Brown – Eagle registrations

•           Pat Dalton – Trainer and member

•           December 14– Voice of the Section – (Vision Quest) at West Port

             

 

     9.  Around the Table

Randy – N/A

Ed – 29 total students with a total of $1750 profit for this round of refresher classes

Steve – Who’s bringing the projector for the next meeting, and who brings the RU credits, and Steve will bring the survey forms

Jim – Need an extra table to set up for job opportunities, will add information in the newsletter for the unemployed

Tony – Distributed scholarship application for update, will set up Orlando’s Oct. meeting

Linh – Job posting from Express Scripts for Project Manager

Kunita – Modified letter from feedback, will send out, has sent out 50 letters to new members, meeting notice Sept. has been sent to national for posting

Kim – N/A

 

                       

Adjourn  8:36                

 

Next LC Oct 12, 2010 at Indian Palace      

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LC Meeting Minutes 8-13-2010

Section 1304

Minutes of 8-10-10 ASQ Leadership Committee Meeting

At Syberg’s, in St. Louis, MO

Prepared 8-10-10 by Denise Arthur

 

Participants:      John O’Reilly, Mary Ellen Rowland, Ed Vallorani, Kunita Gear, Randy Thompson, Resa Manson, Kim Rochetti, Lihn Dye, Chris Anderson, Tony Indihar, Jim Ebone, Will Meyer, Steve Hyland

                       

1.         Meeting called to order at 6:00 PM by John O’Reilly

 

2.         Minutes Approved as prepared by Kim - It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the minutes as prepared.

 

3.         Treasure’s Financial Report by Randy - The new checks have been received from Engineers Club (Bank shipped to the wrong address).  Once the audit is complete, Randy will be getting the computer and final training.  A complete, balanced report will be presented in September.  The CD balance is $65,554.91, Checking balance $15,214.92, Additional checks $339.00, Outstanding checks none known, Petty cash $150.00 for a total of $81,258.83.

 

4.         Certification/Exams by Mary Ellen - 22 passed in May and 12 passed in June.

 

5.         Education by Ed – Refresher Classes 10 students for CMQ/OE, 9 students for CSSBB and possibly 2 more for a total of 11, and 8 students for CQT/CQI.  The courses will be making a profit for this session.  It was felt that this increase in students was due to the additional email reminders.  Responses and interest for additional classes have also been coming in for the next session.  Fifteen instructors have volunteered to be instructors for upcoming courses.  Chris suggested a way to evaluate these volunteers would be to ask them to do a presentation at a meeting before having them be an instructor.  Pricing for courses was discussed and $399 for regular price and $299 for people between jobs.  Community centers are an inexpensive location but they don’t have projectors. It was decided that the instructors could borrow one of the three projectors owned by the chapter.  Kim will check on the Hazelwood community center and Grace Church on McKelvey.   Ed is having the Primers sent to his house and saving in shipping with $7 a book.  John has two CQE primers. 

 

6.         Recertification by Will - A large amount of people have been coming in during June and July to be recertified. ASQ National complemented Section 1304 on how well the exam session went at the World Conference.  Will is planning on going to World Conference and help Pittsburg Chapter with proctoring.            

 

7.         Membership by Kunita - The new member memo was reviewed by the LC.  Kim suggested adding additional plugs for upcoming events to the note,  such as call to papers for the Spring Conference.  Mary Ellen suggested having the information about bringing in the letter bolded. June had 961 with 117 unpaid and July 962 with 116 unpaid.     

 

8.         Web Site by Linh – News Articles Invoices have been switched to Randy’s name from Resa and Chris.  Site has been updated with current contact information.  Linh proposed a calendar schedule identifying when information is due for the website.  This would help keep this information from being late on the site.  The group liked the schedule and found that it would be helpful to use.  I Contact has a new software to communicate messages that look better on mobile sites and will bounce to appropriate order response instead of using 123 which isn’t as flexible. Sally Young can send information to the Boeing people who may not be receiving information due to security filters. Ed will share the lead list with Lihn’s member list and have one updated list for distribution.  Ed can be made an author and he can update certification classes.  John would like to keep the letters on the website updated and Kim has volunteered to write the next letter. Call for speakers for spring conferences or meetings were discussed after Lihn shared an email about an Ohio chapter looking for speakers.  It was suggested that these requests go out to the membership as there could be individuals that are interested and using the website as a method to capture more people who are subject matter experts that would be interested in presenting.  It was suggested that we start looking for a leadership committee person that could fill a social media position but Kunita warned that there could be a negative aspect that needs to be thought through first.

           

9.         Financial audit by Jim - The audit is complete and will be ready to submit by the August 15th deadline.

 

10.       SMP by Randy – Results 2009-2010 approved and final report gets submitted by John to the National in the proper format. 2010-2011 plan John will email Rob Herhold to find out how to get gold.  Chris suggested contacting John Breckland in Dallas Texas to find out more about the metrics.  John suggested voting on agreement to the metrics.

 

11.       Will proposed purchasing a new laptop with quick books for the treasurer and one for the secretary.  Will to submit a proposal to the LC and will be discussed at next meeting.  John will add it to the budget. Will suggested budgeting two people to go to the ASQ World Conference and John agreed to add it to the budget.

 

12.       Future Meeting Speakers        

•           Susan Montee – will go with someone else if she doesn’t confirm by the end of the week.

•           Wild Bill Blackburn – Case studies of challenges of past Quality gurus and how they handled them. 

 

 

13.       Spring Conference  - Because of the WC is May 16 thru 18, discussion around when to have the Spring Conference centered around April 8 or 15.  Everyone felt we should avoid tax day, April 15.  Kim suggested April 14 for the Spring Conference, with exams, workshops, and our April section meeting on April 13.  Everyone liked this and that has become our final date.  The estimated budget for the Spring Conference will be discussed at the next meeting.      

 

14.       Budget Review  – Next Meeting

             

15.        Around the Table

Randy - suggested adjusting Lihn’s calendar for December meeting.  Send expenses for next budget by the end of August for submission to next LC meeting.

Tony – Scholarships  suggest having two like last year

Kim – add planning workshops to next agenda.  Suggest adding newsletters to website but countered by John to adding information as it becomes available.

Kunita – Give questions to ED andKunita if there are any questions that we would like to ask the membership. Try to avoid open ended questions.

Will – Asked about the sharepoint site and Lihn will ask Eric about access to the sharepoint site.

Jim – Offered to share the resources and contacts he has found to help find a job from being unemployed to others in the same situation.

Resa – Thanked everyone for their help.

 

                       

Adjourn  8:28              

 

Next LC Sept 14, 2010          Pat’s Bar and Grill in Dogtown

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LC Meeting Minutes 07-2010

Section 1304
Minutes of 7-13-10 ASQ Leadership Committee Meeting
At Indian Palace, in St. Louis, MO
Prepared 7-13-10 by Kim Rochetti for Denise Arthur

Participants: John O’Reilly, Mary Ellen Rowland, Jim Ebone, Randy Thompson, Ed Vallorani, Kunita Gear, Steve Hyland, Resa Manson, and Kim Rochetti.

1) Meeting called to order at 6:00 PM by John O’Reilly

2) Opening by John: Welcome and happy new year to our new year for our ASQ Leadership Committee.

3) June 8 Minutes Approved as Prepared by Kim- It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the minutes as prepared.

4) Treasurer’s Financial Report by Randy – Resa prepared the report and as of the June 30 statement, we have a CD of $65,533.36, checking acct balance is $13,467.14, undeposited checks of $1569.70, additional checks (not posted) ($1605.05), petty cash $150, for a total of $79,415.23. Last year’s balance was $77,288.80. We have 15 Dave and Busters cards. The financial records and information has been transferred to Randy from Resa. There was a motion to approve the report, the motion was seconded and approved.

5) QMP Report by Randy/Steve H.– Achieved all eight of our 2009-2010 goals; the QMP will be emailed when finalized. New columns were added to the report to include the worse case, best case, and neutral conditions for our goal estimates. Added a Spring Conference goal row for the coming year. A discussion about increasing goals led to a comment that we need to have a plan or basis for the increase or we should leave them as is. We need to remove Randy from the QMP access and add Steve H. Our proposed goals for 2010-2011 are: 60 certifications, 60 for meeting attendance, 4.0 for meeting satisfaction, 900 for total membership, 70% for retention, (4) 1/ 2-day workshops, have a spring conference with attendance of 100, and achieve 20 new senior members. Questions: Should we collect data on the pass rate of certification exams? We can use this information for marketing purposes. We can track this for a while and see what we find. Should we have a metric on new members? We can track a new member but we don’t know if they were past members. These metrics will be finalized on our QMP report and given out next month.

6) Certifications by Mary Ellen– 27 signed up and 4 no shows. We don’t have the percent passed right now. We just know who passed.

7) Membership by Kunita – Member number is 961, 117 not paid. The 117 is an opportunity to send a reminder to pay. We have a new member letter that highlights value of membership. It would be great to include the upcoming meetings, point to the website, and other information of interest for them. We should plan meetings months in advance and put on the website. It has proven successful in the past. The 123Signup system will let us send as many email reminders to our members that we want for free. Kunita will email the membership letter for review.

8 ) Education – Refresher Classes by Ed – For the CMQ/OE has 8 signed up, CSSBB has 4, and CQT/CQI has 2. Right now we have a positive income on CMQ/OE and negative on the other two. We will hold the CMQ/OE and CSSBB and the CQT/CQI is we get one or two more. We should look into the Worker Investment Act (WIA) program that covers training for unemployed people. The Primers will be ordered soon.

9) Website – News Articles by Linh – Who should proof the information and articles that go on the website? John volunteered. We need to change over the debit card information from Resa to Randy. Should we set up ASQ.Org email to go to the individual leaders vs. all to John? Yes, have them routed to the specific leaders in charge of the various areas. The email that doesn’t get delivered will now go to Ed for removal and reject the auto-replies. Our website calendar is linked to a google calendar which caused us to do things manual. We can use 123 system calendar for free and it’s automatic.

10) Financial Audit by Jim – We have to find out from Resa when we are doing the audit. Kim Thompson, ASQ corporate sent the revised S4, the Section Treasurer and Auditing Committee Guidelines to use.

11) Future Meeting Speakers
• Susan Montee – Missouri State Auditor
• Wild Bill Blackburn
• Vince Schoemehl – Former STL Mayor
• Please send ideas to John and Kim

12) Spring Conference
• Dates: Easter is April 24; Potential Conf Dates April 8th, 15th , or 29th Let’s try the 29th
• Exams and Workshops at SC
• SC opening with Thursday night section meeting and conference the next day; Crown Plaza is good venue, the Viking is easy to get there; let’s check several locations for the best prices; we need to get the venue set up soon. Let’s combine with our April meeting. Our goal is to break-even.

13) Budget Review and QMP – Next meeting we will finalize budget and QMP.

14) Around the Table
Randy – Let’s find out ways to integrate email blasts to save money, collect data on why people don’t come in the emails, and do an overall technology review to update our email blast process. Linh will look into it.
Mary Ellen – n/a
Jim – Is interviewing in various locations that are not close and may not be able to stay on the LC
Ed – Can we do a membership survey on education topics? Let’s put on the next meeting’s agenda. Should we do something like PMI’s Vision Quest? Yes.
Linh – Need labels for meeting nametags
Kunita – Wants to conduct one of the surveys with the help of the LC; what about give aways, many small and maybe one large one for those that have been to many meetings or something like that. Maybe three gifts per meetings would be sufficient and do a drawing at the end of each meeting to encourage higher attendance to the end. Also, should we consider give the speakers a gift card vs. the trophy. We need to find out what they want
Steve – Officers should have to keep certain required data for future accessibility. Some of it can be available to members too. We can set it up on our local section sharepoint site.
Kim – n/a

Meeting adjourned at 8:31.

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LC Meeting Minutes 05-2010

May 2010 Leadership Committee Meeting

Kobe Japanese Restaurant

 

  1. Opening                                                                         SEM            6:00
  2. Minutes Approval; April                                                 Kim            6:05
  3. Treasurer’s Financial Report                                       Resa            6:10
  4. SMP Report                                                                 Randy            6:20

 

                                                                     Order Dinner                        6:30

 

  1. Member Value at WCQI/Section 1304 Booth    SEM            6:40
    1. Volunteers - List
    2. Banner - Resa
    3. Goal: Recruit members & senior members!

                                                                                Dinner                        7:00

 

  1. Education Report                                                  Ed/Denise            7:45
    1. Future Workshops (Jun, Jul, or Aug)?

a)      Six Sigma

b)      Facilitation

c)      Resume’s and Interviewing

  1.  
    1. Refresher Classes (Should be called

      Certification Classes)

a)      CMQ/OE - Steve Mundwiller

b)      CSSBB - Kim Rochetti

c)      CQT/CQI - Dianne Busse

d)      Belleville, IL Class - Brenda Bishop?

e)      Belleville CQA Class - Don Reed?

f)       BOK Class - ?

g)      What do the late fall classes look like?

7.            Program Review                                            John and SEM         8:05

            May

a)     Registration Desk Volunteers:  Resa and ?

b)     Grill:  Kurt, John, Randy, Tony?

c)      Bar:  Kim and Denise?

d)     General?           

            June Joint Society Meeting 

a)     Vince Schoemehl (former STL mayor), Russ Carnahan (current 3rd District Congressman), Dick Gephardt (former 3rd District Congressman), and Robin Carnahan (Missouri Secretary of State and U.S. Senate Candidate) all declined.  A few others too…

b)     Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee is still under consideration

8.            Around the Table                                                            8:15

Adjourn          

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LC Meeting Minutes 04-2010

Favazza’s

 

  1. Opening                                                           SEM            6:00
  2. Leadership Committee Changes                     SEM            6:01
  3. Minutes Approval; February & March             Kim            6:10
  4. WCQI in General                                            Chris            6:15

 Order Dinner                                                                                6:30

 Treasurer’s Financial Report                                   Resa            6:40

  1. SIU-C Student Section Conference                   SEM            6:55

     Dinner                                                                                                             7:00

 

  1. Section Excellence & Education Overview        SEM          7:40
    1. WCQI
    2. Section’s Annual Spring Conference
    3. Monthly Membership Meetings
    4. Our leaders
    5. Scholarships, exams, etc.
  2. Education Report                                     Ed/Denise            7:45
    1. April and May Workshops
    2. Refresher Classes

a)      CQA - Steve Hyland

b)      CQE - Bill Bischoff

c)      CSSGB - Kim Rochetti

d)      Belleville, IL Class - Brenda Bishop?

e)      Belleville CQA Class - Don Reed?

f)       BOK Class - ?

g)      CMQ/OE - Steve Mundwiller

h)      The Future: On Line Classes

  1. Member Value at WCQI/Section 1304 Booth          SEM       8:00
    1. Volunteers - List
    2. Banner - Resa
    3. Goal: Recruit members & senior members!

10.        SMP Report                                                           Randy         8:05

11.        Program Review:  April and May                            John         8:15

  1.  
    1. John may need to MC the April meeting
    2. Registration Desk volunteers:  Mary Ellen?

      Tony?  John?  Eric?  Randy?

12.        June Joint Society Meeting                                      SEM         8:20

13.        Around the Table                                                                                  8:25

Adjourn               ~8:30

 

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LC Meeting Minutes 03-2010

March 2010 Leadership Committee Meeting

 

  1. Opening                              Steve Mundwiller             6:00
  2. Minutes Approval From January           Kim             6:05
  3. Auditors Report                                          Jim            6:10
  4. March Exam Report                     Mary Ellen              6:25

 

Order Dinner                                                                    6:30

 

  1. SMP Report                                            Randy            6:40
  2. Workshop Report                                     Kim            6:50

 

Dinner                        7:00

 

  1. March Meeting Review                           Tony            7:30
  2. Education Report                                  Denise            7:45
    1. March and April Workshops
    2. Refresher Classes

a)      CQA – Steve Hyland

b)      CQE – Bill Bischoff

c)      CQIA, CSSGB, or CQPA - ?

d)      Belleville, IL Class – Brenda Bishop

e)      BOK Class - ?

  1. Member Value at WCQI/Section 1304 Booth  SEM  8:00
    1. Volunteers
    2. Banner
    3. Goal
  2. WCQI in General                                       SEM            8:05
  3. SIU-C Student Section Conference         SEM            8:10
  4. Program Review:  April and May            John            8:15
  5. June Joint Society Meeting                      SEM            8:20

         Around the Table                8:25

 

Adjourn              8:30

 

 

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LC Meeting Minute 02-23-2010

Section 1304

Minutes of 2-23-10 ASQ Leadership Committee Meeting

At Favazza’s in St. Louis, MO

Prepared 2-23-10 by Kim Rochetti

 Participants:      John O’Reilly, Tony Indihar, Kunita Gear, Denise Arthur, Resa Manson, Mary Ellen Rowland, Jim Ebone, Linh Dye, Randy Thompson, Ed Vallaroni, and Kim Rochetti.

 1)  Meeting called to order at 6:09 PM by Steve Mundwiller

 Steve introduced new member Ed Vallaroni who will take the Education role and the LC introduced themselves.

 2)  January 10 Minutes Approved as Prepared - It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the minutes as prepared.

 3)  Financial and Treasurer’s Report by Resa. -   At beginning of fiscal year, July, we had  $77,288, and now we have $81,346.  Resa supplied a copy of the reconciliation of the last statement.  Our CD has $65,328.36; checking has $15867.76.  The B of A statement was passed around. 

 4) March Exam Proctors - We are set up for the Mar. 6 exams with four proctors (Evelyn Stancel, Brian Wallace, Eric and Mary Ellen) at Engineer’s Club with 19 people sitting for exams.

5) Misc. Items

a). June Joint Meeting - We have done this for four years and has been set up by APICS for the last two years and now it’s our turn so ASQ will be planning the arrangements this year.  A speaker is in the works for a general topic that would please all organizations.

APICS leader, David Shaw, and Steve have discussed the venue, Sheraton-West Port, as a possibility. Steve has contacted PMI organization in regards to inviting them to our joint meeting. 

b). 2010/2011 Leadership Committee - John O’Reilly has been nominated for Chair, Kim Rochetti for Vice Chair, Denise Arthur for Secretary, Randy Thompson for Treasurer, Mary Ellen Rowland for Awards and certifications, Ed Vallaroni for Education, Tony Indihar for scholarships and venues, Kunita Gear for membership, and Linh Dye for website.

c). Email blasts: Steve and Linh to meet - to go over a few questions soon.

d). Report on special session - Meeting with elected officers, new and existing, and Rob Herhold attended to help start the transition to new responsibilities in new leadership positions along with informing team of general ASQ-national information. 

6)  SMP Report - We have no plans right now to move any of the $15K+ into investments; we need to have it on reserve for potential expenses.  The CD is due soon.  We have allocated monies to the world conference.  Steve believes $8-10K is plenty to reserve but for the 1% return, is it worth moving?  Steve suggested keeping CD and checking amount for the next month and make the decision at the next leadership meetings.  A motion was moved and seconded and approved for the treasurer’s report.  The midterm financial audit is in work.  Membership certification is at 57 vs. goal of 60 with two exams left.  Meeting attendance average is at 62 vs. goal of 60.  Membership satisfaction score is 4.3 vs. goals of 4.0.  Membership total goal was 875, January’s total was 982.  Membership retention is being rolled up right now; goal is 70%.  Half-day workshop goal was four.  We have had one with three planned.  World conference goal was to have 80 volunteers and we currently have 100.  Sr. members goal was increased to 20 and we have 12 sr. members currently.

7) Education Report - Upcoming workshops with Kim Rochetti and Cindy Brendel on Career Development is Mar. 6; Steve on interviewing and resumes on Mar. 20 at Bizmanuals, and John on facilitation skills, Apr. 10, both at St. Charles Community College.  Bizmanuals has offered this office to use for small attendance and certications for $100.  There are drinks there and it is centrally located.   Another possible venue is DePaul Conference Center that serves food and drinks as requested.

8). Member value at WCQI -

a). Section 1304 Booth - Theme is ‘value of an ASQ membership’ such as increased salary, networking opportunities, certification opportunities, and senior membership, etc.. 

b). Value Brochure - We will hand out brochures showing the benefits of ASQ.

c). Volunteers need to commit to two-four-hour terms for free attendance starting the Friday before.

d) A section 1304 section reception will be held as ASQ’s expense and all members are invited.  Retention is more probable if they stay at least two years so our focus is keeping members the first two years since a high percentage leave after one year. 

e) Incentive to join - get an admission ticket to join a meeting at the conference.

f) Incentive to get others to join - recruiter gets a free dinner for getting others to join.

Randy reviewed comments and recommendations from evaluations.

9. Scholarships - We have 12 scholarship forms right now for two $1000 scholarships. 

10)  March Meeting -

  • a) Programs - Dave and Buster’s show room is reserved. We need the names of those receiving certifications for early March.
  • b) Game cards - Haven’t requested at this time; doesn’t appear to be in demand. Seventy cards cost $350. A motion presented, seconded to discontinue game cards and was not approved due to 5 to 6 vote. A second motion offered to amend the motion to offer 30 cards upon request and this was not approved. So, by default, LC will provide game cards to all attendees. We are financially able to do this.
  • c) Section awards - are determined.
  • d) Free attendance - This has been done in the past. Should we do the same this year? The cards and free attendance will affect the budget but we are good financially. LC decided to keep the tradition. We need a list of those that got certifications and then send letters out - John will complete.

11.) Around the Table

Kim -   We have a great Career Development Workshop prepared.

Denise - N/A

Tony -  Awards: recognition is given and then people get it and sit down.  Can we do anything else than just read their name this year?   It is something to think about for discussion at next LC.

Ed -  N/A

John - ‘Working on really neat venues for next year; you don’t want to miss them’.  Gordon Skattum, of Rockford, IL, who is new to St. Louis, is an ASQ fellow from the Chicago chapter.  Steve suggested we get him to present at one of the fall sessions.

Mary Ellen - N/A

Linh - Tony, will you update the program for March?  Yes, when can I get all the information.

Randy -N/A

Kunita - 20 new members for January.

Resa - Do we need to talk about the banner, graphics, volunteer process, etc.?  Yes, we have it in work and will let you know how to make the banner.

Jim - Do we know what’s going on with Steve Hyland?  He’s interested in coming back for the next year.  Anyone know what’s happened to Will Meyer?  He’s been on travel.  Jim has a lot of information to share with others if they are out of work from his out-placement experience. 

9) Meeting adjourned at 8:11.

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LC Meeting Minute 01-12-2010

January 2010  LC Meeting Agenda

Syberg’s at WestPort

 

1. Open 6:00 pm

2. Approve Minutes - Kim 2 minutes

3. Treasurer’s Report and Approve -Resa 4 minutes

4. Additional Financial Updates - Resa 4 minutes

5. General Business - John 20 minutes

a)   Introduction and Approval of LC Officer Slate for 2010-11 

  • Chair - John O’Reilly
  • Chair Elect - Kim Rochetti
  • Treasurer - Randy Thompson
  • Secretary - Denise Arthur

b)   Names for Awards and Recognition to SEM                                                                                         

  • Kauffman Award for Service to ASQ
  • Vezeau Award For Technical Achievement
  • Dr. Robert Deufel Extra Measure Award for Service to STL Section
  • Volunteer Excellence Award

c)   Rod Toro Expense Request Approval

d)   SMP Update

e)   Refresher Class Status

Order Dinner                                                                           5 minutes (~6:30)

6. Education (Workshop Update) - Denise 10 minutes

  • Other Workshop Dates?
  • Refresher Classes

7. Programs - John 15 minutes

  • Jan - Favazza’s - Volunteers for Registration
  • Feb - Ed Valorrini and Missouri Enterprise
  • Mar - Awards, Elections, Scholarship, and Certification Recognition
  • April -Tom Crespi and Chris Anderson
  • May - Engineer’s Club
  • June - Joint Meeting (ASQ to Sponsor)
    • Sheraton Westport Chalet
    • Discussion of Alternate Venues of Venues We Want This Spring

Dinner                                                                                            30 minutes (~7:00)

8.  Membership Activity Summary - Kunita 7 minutes

  • Membership count
  • Those Earning 2008 ASQ Certifications to
  • Attend the March Meeting at No Charge
  • Other Membership and Meeting Attendance Initiatives

9.   Around the Table                                                                  5 minutes

10.  Adjourn                                                                                    8:00

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