ASQ Section 0511 December 2023 Meeting Announcement

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

Professional Night: Path to Quality

Conducted by
Quality Professionals of ASQ Section 0511

Short Description:

ASQ Section 0511 is a community of quality professionals of Northern Virginia, with tremendous cumulative experience across multiple industries, companies, and government agencies. The experience of these quality professionals is a highly valuable networking resource to learn from.

It has been a long-standing tradition for Section 0511 to dedicate each December meeting to its members. This December of 2023, we will conduct our third Professional Night: Path to Quality.

In the past, the annual social events conducted in December of each year did NOT grant attendance RUs. Advent of online meetings made us re-think our approach, and we replaced them with Professional Nights. In December 2021, there were 22 Quality Professionals that introduced themselves over the course of three (3) meeting nights (12 in December, 4 in January, and 6 March). This was repeated again in December 2022, where 9 Quality Professionals introduced themselves in December. January and March 2023 programming didn't allow for a continuation of those not introduced in December 2022.

This third Professional Night: Path to Quality is an educational event that grants 0.5 RUs to its participants. We will focus on our Quality Professionals, where YOU are the center of attention!

Program Content:

One of the Section's objectives is to put the Quality Professionals in touch with each other and to have them benefit from each other's experience. The participants of our Section meetings emphasized in the past that they wanted to learn more about each other through introductions and by sharing relevant information about their professional experience.

• This December 2023 Professional Night: Path to Quality WebEx event will be conducted by the same procedure as such an event of December 2021 and December 2022.
• Meeting attendees will be asked to take floor for a few minutes to introduce themselves and their professional experience to other participants by answering the pre-defined questions listed below.
• Your turn to speak will be selected in random order. One of several Moderators will ask you to answer the nine (9) questions listed below and will converse with you as appropriate, for example, by asking for clarification.
• The questions will be projected to your computer's WebEx screen. Also, you are encouraged to turn your camera on when you speak. If you are on the phone, you will need to view the questions on the Section's web page or similar when you speak.
• There is no featured speaker for the December 2023 event. Professional Night: Path to Quality is an educational event thus carrying 0.5 RU. You are expected to participate in a conversation with the Moderator when called.
• Although we will call on speakers at random, preference will be given to those who did not speak during the 2022 or 2021 Professional Nights.
• PLEASE REVIEW the nine (9) questions that you will be asked and THINK AHEAD of what you want to say to other Quality Professionals in attendance about yourself and your experience. You will have about 5 minutes to answer those questions, depending on the number of meeting participants.
• We will try to give the floor to as many attendees as possible. However, if the meeting runs out of time (as was the case in in previous Path to Quality meetings), asking you to speak will be deferred to the next meeting (likely, January or March 2024).
• Note: This Professional Night: Path to Quality is not a call for volunteers. It is about YOUR Path to Quality. You will not be asked whether you volunteer or plan on volunteering unless you want to raise this yourself as part of a relevant question (such as Q4, Q5, Q8, or Q9).

Registration Link

http://www.asq0511.org/Forms/asqpayments.htm

Webinar Link / Meeting Instructions

There is no charge to attend. To register, please use our on line reservation form which can be used up to the day of the meeting. If your plans change, please contact dba23@asq0511.org, and let us know.

Monthly Membership Meeting
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Joining by a direct link:
Meeting link: https://asq.webex.com/asq/j.php?MTID=me306311dff8d192e9b166075dd55a613
Joining by meeting information (requires entering the password):
Web address: https://asq.webex.com/asq
Meeting number: 2556 499 7756
Password: 6MvpTittC26
Joining by phone (you will have to identify yourself by name when you have joined):
Phone number: 1-408-792-6300 Call-in number (US/Canada)
Access code: 2556 499 7756

Section Leadership Meeting Information
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Joining by a direct link:
Meeting link: https://asq.webex.com/asq/j.php?MTID=mf1edec1b32ba1fbd0402e959a365ffba
Joining by meeting information (requires entering the password):
Web address: https://asq.webex.com/asq
Meeting number: 2551 557 3371
Password: FVcQFA8bx63
Joining by phone (you will have to identify yourself by name when you have joined):
Phone number: 1-408-792-6300 Call-in number (US/Canada)
Access code: 2551 557 3371

Additional Information

Nine (9) Questions for Each Meeting Participants to Answer:

I. Quality Professional

• Q1: What is your name?
• Q2: What is your area of professional specialization, education, or interest
  • For example, engineering, construction, software, healthcare, environment, management, any other?

II. Relationship with ASQ

• Q3: What ASQ Certifications (current or expired) do you have or plan on getting?
• Q4: When and why did you start attending the ASQ Section 0511 meetings?
  • Did you come to Restaurant Events (both prior to 2020 and in 2023) or Ranger Outings (both old and recently in 2021-2023)?
• Q5: Did you participate in ASQ other than with Section 0511
  • For example, its Divisions, Conferences, Test Preparation, ASQ Management, other Sections?

III. Work

• Q6: Are you currently:
  • in the workforce (employed or actively searching),
  • not in the workforce (retired or not actively searching),
  • or a student?
• Q7: What is (or was) your role at work?
  • Is (or was) your work role quality-related? In what ways?

IV. Expectations

• Q8: What, if anything, interests you in other Quality Professionals who attend the ASQ section 0511 meetings?
• Q9: In what ways do you want ASQ Section 0511 to help you as a Quality Professional?

About Us:

ASQ Section 0511 is a geographic community in Northern Virginia that lives intertwined with the network of ASQ Divisions and technical communities specializing in specific quality domains and supporting ASQ Certifications in their domains.
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