January 2009 Membership Meeting

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.

Map to Villa Farotto

Villa Farotto Website

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.

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.

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