Join us at Dave & Buster’s for the March, 2009 Membership Meeting.

This is a meeting of awards and recognitions as well as the ASQ St. Louis Section elections. ASQ St. Louis members who received ASQ certifications in 2008 will attend free of charge and will be recognized. The section will also hand out its annual awards to members for exemplary service to the section and to the field of quality. The meeting will also elect officers for the 2009-2010 Leadership Committee. ASQ St. Loius Scholarship recipients will also be announced during the meeting.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Dave & Buster’s
13857 Riverport Dr, Maryland Heights, MO 63043
Phone: 314-209-8015

• 5:30 - 6:00 pm: Registration and Social
• 6:00 - 7:00 pm: Networking - Dave & Busters Game Room.
• 7:00 - 8:00 pm: Dinner and Section Business
• 8:00 - 9:00 pm: Elections, Awards and Recognitions. .

Please register by Sunday, March 15, 2009, by visiting the online registration page (click here). You can prepay for membership meetings via credit card on a safe and secure web environment.

Section Members who received an ASQ Certification in 2008 can attend free of charge. Please bring the letter from the mebership chair to the meeting.

Attendees who register online are entitled to a $5 discount, which brings the meeting fee down to $25. Meeting fee for attendees registering and paying at the door is $30, while students and members between jobs pay $15. For logistical purposes, we urge you to register online by the prescribed date.

You can also send an email to registration@asqstlouis.org, call the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis at (314) 533-9333 or send a fax to (314) 533-9336.

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Join us at Favazzas for the February, 2009 Membership Meeting.

First Presentation: Project Management and Career Skills are Inseparable. Presented by Bob Freese.
Second Presentation: Basic Principles of Effective Workplace Communication. Presented by Karla Armbruster, Webster University.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Favazzas
5201 Southwest Ave, St. Louis, MO 63139
Phone: 314-772-4454

• 5:30 - 6:00 pm: Registration and Social
• 6:00 - 7:00 pm: First Presentation - Project Management and Career Skills are Inseparable. Presented by Bob Freese.
• 7:00 - 8:00 pm: Dinner and Section Business
• 8:00 - 9:00 pm: Second Presentation - Basic Principles of Effective Workplace Communication. Presented by Karla Armbruster, Webster University.

Please register by Friday, February 13, 2009, by visiting the online registration page (click here). You can prepay for membership meetings via credit card on a safe and secure web environment.

Attendees who register online are entitled to a $5 discount, which brings the meeting fee down to $25. Meeting fee for attendees registering and paying at the door is $30, while students and members between jobs pay $15. For logistical purposes, we urge you to register online by the prescribed date.

You can also send an email to registration@asqstlouis.org, call the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis at (314) 533-9333 or send a fax to (314) 533-9336.

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February, 2009 Membership Meeting Highlights

First Presentation
Project Management and Career Skills are Inseparable
Presented by Bob Freese, MBA, CQE, CQA, PMP.

Learn new tips including how to kill a project and live to tell about it, nurturing your sponsor, bringing the calvary to save your project, and organizational improvement techniques. Also learn new personal and career skills that will improve both your career succss and project management abilities.

Learning objective:

• Improve your project management effectiveness
• Improve your personal career effectiveness
• Bring new skills to your organization

Bob Frese has gained many insights during his career as a successful project manager, project engineer, and workforce team facilitator. He is currently a practicing program manager with international experience. He also teaches project management both locally and internationally. He is a student of the soft skills which are actually the difficult skills.

Teaching and speaking experience: The Boeing Company, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Maryville University, and Saint Louis University. Subjects include project management, operations management, statistics, decision sciences, and database principles.

Second Presentation
Basic Principles of Effective Workplace Communication
Presented by Karla Armbruster, PhD, Associate Professor - Webster University.

Professor Armbruster will discuss purposes and techniques of workplace writing using examples as examples for improvement. Participants are encouraged to bring examples of their own writing. Her presentation will include:

• Common purposes of workplace writing: to inform, to persuade, to build goodwill
• Characteristics of effective communication: clarity, completeness, accuracy, audience awareness
• How to create “You Attitude” (audience awareness)
• How to build goodwill
• Stylistic techniques to clarity and concision

As an Associate Professor of English at Webster University, Karla directs the professional writing program. She has worked as an editor and professional writer, and has been involved at the college level or about 20 years. Karla also conducts corporate business writing seminars.

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Please register by Friday, February 13, 2009, by visiting the online registration page (click here). You can prepay for membership meetings via credit card on a safe and secure web environment.

Attendees who register online are entitled to a $5 discount, which brings the meeting fee down to $25. Meeting fee for attendees registering and paying at the door is $30, while students and members between jobs pay $15. For logistical purposes, we urge you to register online by the prescribed date.

You can also send an email to registration@asqstlouis.org, call the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis at (314) 533-9333 or send a fax to (314) 533-9336.

ASQ St. Louis is hosting a half-day workshop on ISO 9001:2001 on Saturday, February 21 at the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis. The workshop compares the new standard with the 2001 version. Charlie Ochs, the instructor, will also discuss benefits, implementation steps and certification process. It’s also a great way to earn additional RU Points.

Workshop Agenda

• Compare ISO9001:2000 to ISO9001:2008
• What does ISO9001:2008 offer your operation
• What steps are recommended to implement ISO in your company
• How to become certified

Cost
Course fee is $99.00

Date & Time
Saturday, February 21, 2009
8:00am-12:00 noon

Location
Engineers’ Club
4359 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108

Instructor: Charlie Ochs
Charlie has been in the Quality Management field for 50 years. He was a Quality Manager at National Vendors, Valentec Manufacturing, and Bachman Machine Co., all in the St. Louis area. He retired January 2004, and since then has been consulting and performing third-party ISO9001:2000 audits. He is currently certified by IRCA and ha an excellent understanding of ISO9001:2000 and ISO9001:2008.

Questions?
For more details, email Section Education Chair Kim Rochetti at at kim_rochetti@irco.com, or call 314.838-4659.

To register online, click here.

Join us at Villa Farotto in Chesterfield for the first membership meeting of 2009.

First Presentation: The Five Drivers to Success. Presented by Donna Forgy, ProSkills, Inc.
Second Presentation: Setting Goals with Lean Thinking. Presented by Chris Anderson, Bizmanualz, Inc.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Villa Farotto
17417 Chesterfield Airport Rd, Chesterfield, MO 63005
(636) 519-0048‎

• 5:30 - 6:00 pm: Registration and Social
• 6:00 - 7:00 pm: First Presentation – The Five Drivers to Success, presented by Donna Forgy
• 7:00 - 8:00 pm: Dinner & Section Business
• 8:00 - 9:00 pm: Second Presentation – Setting Goals with Lean Thinking, presented by Chris Anderson

Please register by Friday, January 16 , by visiting the online registration page (click here). You can prepay for membership meetings via credit card on safe and secure web environment.

Attendees who register online are entitled to a $5 discount, which brings the meeting fee down to $25. Meeting fee for attendees registering and paying at the door is $30, while students and members between jobs pay $15. For logistical purposes, we urge you to register online by the prescribed date.

You can also send an email to registration@asqstlouis.org, call the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis at (314) 533-9333 or send a fax to (314) 533-9336.

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January 20 Membership Meeting Highlights

First Presentation
The Five Drivers to Success
Presented by Donna Forgy, ProSkills, Inc.

Without a doubt, hard work and dedication in applying leadership principles truly separate the armatures and the professionals. But there are certain qualities for a leader’s success-that are inherent in the personality and work habits of top achievers. We will be discussing the following Drivers of Success and how they relate to your personal and professional success.

• Self Confidence. In a world where risk, challenge, competition and change go hand-in-hand, self-confidence is the competitive edge.
• People Skills/Communication Skills. By far the greatest single obstacle to communication and success is poor understanding of people.
• Leadership Skills. Leadership is about influence and the ability to motivate and inspire people from a variety of backgrounds to a higher level of performance.
• Worry and Stress. The ability to face a challenging situation with a constructive attitude is a determining success factor for all of us
• Attitude Control. Not easy but as the saying goes, “If you can’t change the situation, change your attitude about it.

Donna Forgy is an experienced professional with over 25 years of experience in management, leadership training, and presentation development. As President of ProSkills Inc., Donna has coached hundreds of people to become more effective in all areas of life, to live with more enthusiasm, and embrace challenges with new found confidence. Donna will motivate you to move outside of your comfort zone and take the steps necessary to reach your next level! Her focus is you.

Second Presentation
Setting Goals with Lean Thinking
Presented by Chris Anderson, Bizmanualz.

People always ask me — how do you start to implement lean? What is first or how do you begin? This presentation explains the importance of changing your thinking as the first step to implementing lean. Lean goals, lean tools, and lean events are used as examples of how lean thinking can begin to take root within an organization. The presentation will cover: 1. Understanding the importance of position goals for lean

• Finding your lean goals
• Determining the metrics (what will success look like)

2. Using lean tools to determine where to start

• Value stream analysis
• Visual space analysis
• Material flow analysis

3. Creating the lean plan of improvement opportunities

• Holding a successful event and reporting out.
• Repeat/execute the plan.

Chris Anderson, M.B.A., the Managing Director for Bizmanualz, Inc., is a strategic deployment and process improvement trainer, consultant, and public speaker having published dozens of articles and taught hundreds of hours of classes on creating well-defined processes, implementing lean six-sigma, and deploying process improvement strategically for competitive advantage. Chris is a graduate of the Advanced Manufacturing Specialist Training Program (AMSTP), a one-year training program covering Six Sigma, Business and Lean Enterprise techniques that is held in conjunction with the University of Missouri - Rolla and Missouri Training & Employment Council. He is a senior member of the American Society of Quality (ASQ) as a Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Certified Quality Process Analyst (CQPA) and Certified Quality Improvement Analyst (CQIA). He is the immediate past chair of ASQ St. Louis and participates in the Lean Division, Quality Management and Customer, Supplier Divisions of ASQ.

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Please register by Sunday, January 18 , by visiting the online registration page (click here). You can prepay for membership meetings via credit card on safe and secure web environment.

Section members who register and pre-pay online are entitled to a $5 discount, which brings the meeting fee down to $25. Meeting fee for members paying at the door and for guests is $30, while students and members between jobs pay $15.