ASQ Section 0511 January 2023 Meeting Announcement

Short Description:

Ken Rapuano is Section 0511 Elected Chair for 2023. He will present his Section Chair’s Report to brief the participants on the State of the Section. This is the second Section Chair’s Report that follows the precedent of the first such Report of January 2022. This includes the Section’s Strategy, Priorities, and a walk-through of Initiatives that the Section carries out.

After the Section Chair’s Report for the balance of the meeting time, we will conduct Part 2 of the second Professional Night: Path to Quality of last month. Nine (9) randomly selected Quality Professionals spoke for 5-6 minutes each, introduced by three (3) moderators, at the December 2022 meeting. Time permitting, we will give floor to several more Quality Professionals to introduce themselves at this January 2023 meeting.

Program Content:

Section Business. The Section Business part of the meeting will likely be shorter than usual as a number of Section Business items will be touched upon in the Section Chair’s Report.

Section Chair’s Report. After that, the Chair will present his Report on the State of the Section. This is the Report promised to you at the December 2022 meeting.

• This Report is to inform you what the Section Volunteers work on, what they accomplished last year, and where the Section is going.


• This Report draws on its precedent of the January 2022 Section Chair’s Report delivered by the 2022 Section Chair Vladimir Nesterovich. We now have the tradition of annual Chair Reports to the Section Members.


• Ken will review the Section’s Strategy and Priorities and will walk you through the main initiatives that the Section carries out.
  
  • He will emphasize what has been achieved since the last Chair Report and what has fallen short during this past year.
  
  
  • He will also describe how the Section’s Strategy and Priorities are evolving given what has been achieved and what needs to be done next.
  
  


• This Section Chair’s Report is your educational opportunity for you to reflect upon:
  
  • In general, what a community of Quality Professionals can do as a group, and
  
  
  • Specifically, what Section 0511 as the community of Quality Professionals of Northern Virginia does for its members.
  
  


• Note: This Section Chair’s Report is NOT a call for volunteers, although you are welcome to volunteer based on what you hear.

Professional Night: Path to Quality, Part 2. Whatever time remains, we will continue with the introductions of the Quality Professionals started in December 2022.

• We will first give floor, in random order, to those who attended in December but did not have an opportunity to speak. Those people already know the speaking format since they heard the December introductions.
  
  • Time permitting, we will continue, in random order, with those who are in attendance in January but were NOT in attendance in December.
  
  
  • If we run out of time without having everyone introduced, we will continue with the introductions in subsequent meetings.
  
  


• The Moderators will continue facilitating the introductions as in December.
  
  • We will use the same questions as in December 2022 and will have the same time limit of about 5 minutes per person. PLEASE REVIEW the 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.
  
  
  • 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.
  
  


• 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).