Section Update
Call to serve!!!
Hello ASQ Dallas Section 1 402 Members,
My name is Joseph Sepulveda and I am your ASQ Dallas Section 1402 Chairperson for this fiscal year that began July 1, 2010. I really can’t believe that this Summer has come and gone and that we are now heading into the Fall, with the advent of schools now starting. Hope your Summer has gone well and that all of you are energized for another successful year of service and giving to others!
Your ASQ Dallas Leadership Team (LT) has been working hard during the summer months creating exciting plans that were based on Baldridge assessments as well as Voice of the Customer inputs. This we feel will provide our membership a more responsive program that we feel will be representing all our members’ interests and the organizations they serve. Our Leadership team also has spent a weekend working with other ASQ Sections in our region in sharing ideas and best practices that have worked for them.
As your Dallas Chair, I am making a personal plea to a “call to service” to all our members in giving back to our community in which we all reside and live in. The ASQ organization is a volunteer organization that is there for professionals such as yourself to utilize their talents to serve the community they reside in as well as to enhance and further the reputation of the Quality profession. As life-long learners, we have reached a point in our careers that at some point that what we have learned is best when we can share that knowledge with others and leaving that legacy for others to enjoy.
In this spirit of cooperation and community, I am asking each one of you as members to really dig deep into your consciousness and ask yourself if you are utilizing your talents and skill-sets to the best possible use for the benefit of others. Only you can make that assessment and that decision. If you feel that ASQ is right with your time and schedule, then please join us in this job you will love, that is hard work and fun but very much satisfying that your efforts go a long way in helping others.
Various committees that utilize every aspect of your talents and personalities run the Dallas ASQ Section. So give us a try. The people you meet and network you form will last you a lifetime. You as a person will be defined by not only your individual talents that you bring to the job but also the strength of your professional network providing you the support and knowledge that is the differentiator in this competitive environment and economy.
That is where ASQ can help you and provide you that safe-environment to grow as an individual and make mistakes that you learn more about yourself and be a success at your job and career. Hope you consider joining us in some capacity as an LT or committee member or even a volunteer. There are several opportunities to hold positions virtually on this LT, with the current technology that we employ so that whether you are on the road on business or at home, there are ways in the new Dallas ASQ that you can grow personally and contribute your talents to the benefit of others. So please consider us, we really need your passion and energy to do the things that are meaningful and beneficial to the community. Let’s make the Dallas ASQ section the most active and participative of all sections in ASQ.
We in Dallas, have the makings of a very good section. Over the years, the DFW area is very rich in tradition as the single-most area with the most Baldridge winners to date residing in the DFW Metroplex area, which calls out 9 companies in both categories of service and manufacturing. Let us tap into this base of companies of world-class leaders in Quality not just for the DFW area, but truly world-class in terms of their processes and operations.
We also have as our neighbors the award-winning Fort Worth section. The Fort Worth section is consistently the benchmark for other ASQ sections for the many innovative programs that they offer to their members Both sections have a close working relationship with each other that we learn from each other’s success and mistakes and often offset costs by sharing technology as well that benefits both our members.
As for our Dallas section, exciting goals for the year have been established during our Strategic Planning LT meeting back on July 15. This will take ASQ, as an organization, where we need to have a presence - which is deeper into our community:
- To our schools through the successful K-12 Program now going through its’ second year. We have taken steps as a Section to sponsor Texas A&M - Commerce as a ASQ Student Section,
- To our businesses, (ideas whereby we take our members into other organizations and lead positive change within that organization), as well as,
- To our individual organizations and companies, where our education and certification offerings increase the knowledge and performance of our members while leading to better performance and increased opportunities along with better pay.
We also created a brand new community web-site for our section. This new site will be the center-piece for all our interaction and information that we look to deploy in September. New items such as “Ask the Chair”, Job Placement opportunities, monthly “Hot Iron” topics capturing discussion threads from members will all be part of this community website. This internet café will allow our membership to contribute in ways that they have never had an opportunity to before, that is not restricted by attendance but only by one’s imagination and thoughts. More webinars and on-demand training will all be a part of our execution as an LT this fiscal year.
We hope you enjoy this exciting opportunity to really take yourself to places that you have never been while receiving a personal fulfillment that what you do matters.
I welcome you and wish you all an exciting new year as part of ASQ. Let’s make a difference, one person at a time! Hope we see you at this year’s Fall Conference on October 22nd or at our monthly Professional Development and LT meetings! Please do not hesitate to call me or reach me on how we can serve your needs.
Please mark your calendar to attend the September Professional Development Meeting:
September Professional Development Meeting
September 23, 2010
Please see the Dallas ASQ Website for registration details.