March Membership Meeting

First Presentation: Dealing with Extreme Workgroup Dysfunctions by Mark T. Vilbert, Organization Development Advisor, Boeing Integrated Defense System (IDS)

Second Presentation: Could Organizational Alignment be the Foundation for Performance Improvement? By Presented by Ken Meyer, President and CEO of Alignment at Work, LLC

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Favazza’s
5201 Southwest Ave St. Louis, MO 63139
(314) 772-4454

• 5:30 - 6:00 pm: Registration & Social
• 6:00 - 7:00 pm: First Presentation - Dealing with Extreme Workgroup Dysfunctions presented by Mark T. Vilbert
• 7:00 - 8:00 pm: Dinner & Section Business
• 8:00 - 9:00 pm: Second Presentation - Could Organizational Alignment be the Foundation for Performance Improvement? presented by Ken Meyer

Please register by Sunday, March 18, 2007 by visiting the online registration page (click here). You can prepay for membership meetings via credit card on a safe and secure web environment.

You can also send an email to registration@asqstlouis.org, call the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis at (314) 533-9333 or send a fax to (314) 533-9336.

Map to Favazza’s



Driving Directions
From Lambert International Airport to Favazza's:

1. Head toward the I-70 E entry ramp and go onto I-170 E – go 7.5mi
2. Take the Union Blvd exit 244A to Kingshighway - go 0.1 mi
3. Bear left at Bircher Blvd - go 0.4 mi
4. Bear right and head toward N Kingshighway Blvd - go 348 ft
5. Bear right at N Kingshighway Blvd - go 3.3 mi
6. Continue on S Kingshighway Blvd - go 2.0 mi
7. Turn right at Southwest Ave - go 0.4 mi
8. Arrive at 5201 Southwest Ave, St Louis, MO 63110

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March, 2007 Membership Meeting Highlights

First Presentation

Dealing with Extreme Workgroup Dysfunctions

Presented by Mark T. Vilbert
Organization Development Advisor
Boeing Integrated Defense System (IDS)

Ever experienced a team that missed the help they really needed early on - ending up sinking deeper and deeper into misery? Team dysfunctions left unchecked will eventually lead to a rut of poor performance. Fortunately there is a process that will allow you to help almost any team or group through the most challenging scenarios. Please join us as we look closely at:

• A diagnostic model for sorting out dysfunctions
• A set of steps to guide you and help keep your sanity
• A glimpse at the vast amount of tools available

Mark Vilbert’s work history includes the position of program coordinator for the high performance work organization. He is the current board president of the St. Louis Organization Development Network. Key Areas of Expertise: Designing and implementing team and other large group interventions. He utilizes a theoretical practice of aligning strategy, structure, and culture for implementing work design to promote performance through powerful workplace relationships in both union and non-union settings.

Second Presentation

Could Organizational Alignment be the
Foundation for Performance Improvement?

Presented by Ken Meyer
President and CEO of Alignment at Work, LLC

Ken Meyer will share his insights on how to measure and create organizational alignment. Ken has more than fourteen years of experience as a change agent for many manufacturing and non-manufacturing companies. Ken will explore such critical issues as:

• Creating organizational alignment
• Understanding how to successfully implement organizational change and improvement
• Reducing the frustration experienced with change
• Speeding and sustaining change
• Lowering the cost of quality

Alignment at Work is the leading provider of education, training, licensing and coaching on Pull Thinking, a methodology with a set of proprietary tools that helps organizations align their people around common purposes and goals and serves as the foundation for service minded leadership, Four Dimensional Alignment and process improvement. In 1988, Ken invented the Pull Principle^® and the Pull Thinking^® methodology out of a need to find a more effective way to rapidly gain organization-wide support for sustainable change and innovation in businesses.

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Please register by Sunday, March 18, 2007 by visiting the online registration page (click here). You can prepay for membership meetings via credit card on a safe and secure web environment.

You can also send an email to registration@asqstlouis.org, call the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis at (314) 533-9333 or send a fax to (314) 533-9336.