September Technical Presentation: Teams     

Very likely, you have been part of one or more teams. Maybe a softball team, a debate team, or a yearbook staff?
Very likely, you have been part of one or more teams: maybe a softball team, a debate team, or a yearbook staff? At the September 17th meeting, we are going to concentrate on business teams, such as a project-, improvement-, audit, or investigation- team. Teams are an investment: they take time and resources; some teams are very successful, others not so much.
We’ll look at when it makes sense to form a team, what should be considered to maximize chances for success, and what to avoid, including team-size, team-development, team-composition, support, charters, time lines, responsibilities, rules-of-the-road, ad-hoc vs. standing teams, etc. Hopefully this will be an interactive session, and as such, you may want to, before our meeting, reflect on a very successful team and/or a not-so-successful team you were on, and what you believe made them so.
About our speaker:

Charles (Chuck) Marsman is a Quality/ Operational-Excellence professional with over 40 years’ experience in Manufacturing-, Technical-, and Quality Management, with Monsanto/ Solutia and Rohm & Haas/ Dow companies, and now with Marsman Consulting, in the automotive, semiconductor, and consumer-goods industries.
As part of a career in process-, productivity-, and quality-improvement; he has more than 25 years of experience in developing, registering, auditing, managing, and improving Quality- and EHS- management systems in domestic and foreign locations.
Chuck holds a BSChE degree from Purdue University; and MEChE and MBA degrees from Tulane.
He is an ASQ-CMQ/OE and -CSSGB, has been active in the ASQ-WMass section serving as Section-Chair, Treasurer, and Program-Chair, and has presented numerous technical- and quality-related subjects.

 From the Nominations Chair:
This is a call for nominations for the Elected Officers for the Western MA section. If you have any interest in serving your section as Chair-Elect, Secretary, or Treasurer next year (2020), please contact me directly at lagfjord@comcast.net or Chuck Marsman at cmarsman@msn.com with the following information:  Your member number, your involvement with ASQ, and experience related to the position.
The last date for submission is September 15, 2019.
The requirements for a section officer position are: 1) voting member 2) member in good standing 3) member of the section. Member nominations from the general membership require submission of a nomination petition with 6 (six) signatures. If there are multiple qualified candidates for the same position, elections will take place and communications will be sent out. If there is a single nomination for each position, the nomination will be declared as Elected at the dinner meeting on Sept 17.

~Lorraine Galica, Nominations Chair

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