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Section Meeting: The International Team Excellence Award – “What Separated the Best from the Rest?”
The September section meeting will feature a presentation from the recent ASQ World Quality Conference on the International Team Excellence Award – “What Separated the Best from the Rest?”
September General Section Meeting: Using Social Media
Using Social Media to Enhance your Professional Network and to Create or Find Job Opportunities (example: LinkedIn)
Do you want to build a better professional network? Keep in touch with friends, family, trends or keep on top of current events as they are happening?
Do you feel like social media was a wave that crashed on top of your head leaving you with a headache and dizzy?
Do you want to be able to surf that wave?
This Presentation will help answer all of these questions and will include: Social Media: Basics, Best Practices, and Benefits.
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Photos from the QA Foxhole
Section Meeting is this Thursday!!!
Don’t forget to register and attend Thursday’s section meeting. To register or for more information on the program visit The program description
Update – More tickets are now available register now!!
General Section Meeting – Lessons Learned/Survivor Stories – June 13th, 2013
The Presentation will include:
- A fun and informative presentation given by Bill Latzko, a Master of Quality (Title given to Bill by Dr. W. Edwards Deming), and Dave Sherman, a 25+ year veteran of Food/Beverage, Environmental, & Clinical Laboratories.
- The Presentation is subtitled, “A View from the Foxhole”. We will discuss specific issues that occurred while we were “Guarding against a Non-Quality Invasion.”
- Topics Discussed will include:
- A CBS Columbia Records Promotion that required $1,755,000 worth of radios purchased in Hong Kong in 1968.
- A Brilliant way to try to beat a “Drug Test” for Marijuana.
- The Artificial Adulteration of “Natural” Essential Oils.
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The Balanced Scorecard
Section Meeting: May 14th, 2013
Our presentation will provide an informative introduction to the principles of using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System. This concept was first introduced in the 1992 Harvard Business Review article authored by, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton. They revolutionized conventional thinking about performance metrics by introducing the concept of the balanced scorecard. Continue reading The Balanced Scorecard
Introduction to The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People®
Section Meeting: April 16th, 2013
Our presentation will provide an informative introduction to the principles and language of the The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and their impact. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey was first published in 1989 and there have been more than 25 million copies sold in 38 languages, and continues to remain one of the best selling nonfiction business books to this day.
In the Seven Habits, Covey presents a presents an approach to being effective in attaining goals by aligning oneself to what he calls “true north” principles that he presents as universal and timeless in his various works. He does not claim to have invented the principles but rather to have rediscovered them and created a simple language for articulating them. In August 2011, Time listed Seven Habits as one of “The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books.” Continue reading Introduction to The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People®