Holiday Wishes - Seasons Greetings Quality Professionals!

On behalf of the San Diego Section’s board I wish all ASQ members a warm and joyous Holiday season. In the holiday spirit may we remember the true meaning of the Holiday season as we celebrate with family and friends.

This is a special time of year when we should be thinking about people less fortunate than ourselves. As Quality Professionals we may be able to make a difference in the quality of someone’s life by sharing some of our gifts and talents: volunteer your time or make a donation to a local charity, write a card or letter to our brave men and women overseas, give a helping hand to a colleague who recently lost his or her job, say kind words to a co-worker, boss, in-law, or that neighbor you can’t get along with, write an article for our monthly newsletter. Spread the Holiday Cheer!

Workshop Status

Our next workshop wont be until January due to Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. The default topic will be MSA and Gage R&R but we are working to develop other interesting topics and speakers as well.

Other Key Announcements

JMP statistical software is holding a free four hour event on Tuesday (11/14) off the 56 freeway at the Marriott San Diego Del Mar hotel. Dr. Flaig who writes articles for our section highly recommends this event as he has heard Dr. Little speak. For more see http://www.jmp.com/about/events/seminars/ca_11142006.shtml
Several new jobs have recently been posted on our jobs page. See http://www.asqsandiego.org/jobs.htm and keep sending them in.
Don't forget to check out our sponsor pages. Great courses and products being offered!! See links at the bottom of this email. Here's some details:

See you next week,

Doug McCloskey
ASQ San Diego Section Leadership Committee Chair
dm@grantrothbard.com
http://grantrothbard.com

This Month's Meeting

Dec.12, 2006

"Holiday Special Topic for Spouses: Thinking Hats"

Anthony C. Griffin
Principal, http://www.teamworks1.com/

Abstract

This presentation is for anyone to enjoy. It's based on deBono's book "Six Thinking Hats" in that the presentation will show people watch mode (Hat) of thinking, and how six hats may be applied to everyday situations.

While the six thinking hats concept is rather simple, there are a lot of complex analogies that can be investigated. Hats can be sequenced to achieve desired results, facilitation skills are needed by Blue Hat thinking, and how the factor of time enters into use of the hats is just a few examples that may or may not be covered depending upon the audience. This will be an interactive presentation with a few slides to keep things on a general track.

Speaker Biography

Tony Griffin is a training and performance improvement expert with thirty-four years
experience in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. He is a former
Peace Corps Volunteer, is fluent in Spanish, conversant in Portuguese, and works routinely
with Spanish-speakers. Tony has a unique ability to quickly establish rapport with training
audiences and clients - a feature of Teamworks that distinguishes this consulting practice.

Consultant and Trainer: Mr. Griffin has substantive, hands-on experience in light, medium, and heavy manufacturing, petrochemicals, construction, health care delivery, agriculture, and public sector agencies.

Mr. Griffin is a certified professional instructor for Dr. Edward deBono’s “Creative Thinking”
and “Parallel Thinking” methodologies. His other areas of expertise are:

Training needs assessment
Instructional design
Executive and management coaching
Development of instructional materials
Designing, developing and delivering customized leadership and teamwork workshops
Time management strategies
Identifying and resolving barriers to high performance
Delegation and motivation strategies
Classroom presentation
Harassment prevention
Conflict resolution strategies
Design and implementation of organizational change strategies
Poka Yoke (error-proofing) training
Performance improvement strategies
Leadership and management skills training

Anthony Griffin
Principal of TeamWorks
(951) 784-9330
www.teamworks1.com

Meeting Details

RSVP Required

Please use the RSVP form on our meetings page. Attendance fee includes a delicious dinner.

Meeting Date

Tuesday December 12, 2006 (2nd Tuesday of the month)

Agenda

5:15 pm             Registration & Happy Hour Begins

6:00 pm             Dinner

6:35 pm             Announcements

6:45 pm             Main program

7:45 pm             Raffle and Speaker Prizes

7:55 pm             Adjourn

Menu

Great buffet meal. Special selection of Pasta and Basil chicken.

Price
RSVP Form Here

These are sponsor
subsidized prices
Dinner With RSVP Dinner Without RSVP No Food Arrive Late

ASQ Student Members $10 $12 Free

Regular Members $20 $22 Free

Non-Members $24 $26 Free

Door Prizes We averaged $185 in door prizes per meeting last year!!

Dress
Nice Casual

Location
This month we're at:

Country Inn & Suites By Carlson (formerly Prime Hotel, formerly Wyndham San Diego North). 5975 Lusk Boulevard, San Diego CA 92121. Their Phone: (858) 558-1818

see map here

Parking
Ample free parking

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS UPDATES

Our section proudly sponsors a variety of educational and professional training

opportunities. See our main education page for more details.

Classes to be Held This Month

See classes that are under way this month on our Refresher page and Modular page. Keep signing up for any courses you'd like to take and we will keep adding more so that perhaps the class you want will be held next month. If you have any special requests, please make them also as we will try to accommodate you.

Current Exam Dates Schedule

Certification exams are held in member company meeting rooms around San Diego and administered by proctors. They are held on Saturday mornings twice per year as shown in the table below. Note that these dates don't include special quality conference tests. Main ASQ certifications page.

Certification Types and Links to "Body of Knowledge", & Additional Information

Application Deadline

Exam Dates

CQT - Quality Technician
CRE - Reliability Engineer
CMI - Mechanical Inspector
CQM - Quality Manager
CSSBB - Six Sigma Black Belt
CHA - HACCP Auditor
CBA - Biomedical Auditor

Every January and August

Next: January 12, 2007

Then again on:

August 17, 2007

Every March & Oct.

Next is March 3, 2007

Then again on:

October 20, 2007

CQE - Quality Engineer
CQA - Quality Auditor
CSQE - Software Quality Eng.
CQIA - Q Improvement Associate
CCT - Calibration Technician
CSSGB - Six Sigma Green Belt

Every April and October

Next is April 6, 2007
Then again on:

October 5, 2007

Every June & Dec.

Next is Dec. 2, 2006

Then again on:

June 2, 2007

December 1, 2007

Upcoming Workshops and Modular Courses

For future month workshops see upcoming workshops.

TOPIC	Taught By	Date;Tm;Loc	Cost	Contact

No workshops planned until January No food will be included. Plenty of parking in upper parking lot. See how this workshop relates to CQE, CRE, CSSBB, and CSGB courses in Keith's message from the education chair July, 23, 2006. RSVP and see more information on our 3-hour workshops page.
Our workshop coordinator is looking for speakers, interesting topics, and a meeting location. Contact Jenny Gossett (CQA-CBA), Director of Quality; ALFA SCIENTIFIC DESIGNS, INC.; POWAY, CA 92065; PHONE: 858.513.3888 x 314; e-mail: jgossett@alfascientific.com

Newsletter Sponsors

Our newsletter sponsors this month are:

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See Schedule of Numerous Events!

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University of California, San Diego Extension

Six-Sigma Black-Belt

Newly Revised Program

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Sarbanes Oxley
ISO 9000
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HIPAA, etc.

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