Please join us at a Quality Café on May 25, 6:30PM. This is a great opportunity for you to connect and dialogue with your peers around issues that really matter to all of us. Quality Cafés are being held through ASQ to engage members and non-members in rich dialogue around the most important questions we face as quality professionals and as members of the global quality community – people like you who really care about the quality of their work, their lives, and their world! ASQ’s Grace Duffy, ASQ Vice President, will be our Facilitator.

Quality Cafés are modeled after "European café society" — friends, colleagues and traveling strangers collectively engaged in lively, cross-pollinating, small group conversations about the most compelling issues of the time. The Café process is gaining rapid global popularity as an innovative, highly successful means of encouraging effective questions, candid dialogue and creative thinking among medium to large-size groups in a safe, welcoming atmosphere.

The process of having everyone rotate to several different tables, engaging in dialogue at each table and scribing what emerges on the table-top, followed by posting and full group dialogue about the key takeaways from this process, creates meaningful connections and a flow of knowledge and participation that enriches the collective pool of wisdom around the café theme. For more information about the Café group engagement process, see www.theworldcafe.com.

Make Quality a Global Priority, a Business Imperative and Personal Ethic

Based on the experience of hundreds of other ASQ members, leaders, and non-member quality practitioners, we’re sure you’ll thoroughly enjoy the Quality Café experience. Here is how Quality Café participants have described this: ”The café discussions are a great tool for “instant” communication on many levels: idea-generation, catharsis, networking and vertical and horizontal communication. It’s well worth the time to talk.”

Michael Kirchner, CQMgr

Chair, Orlando Section 1509

Feedback we received from other participants:

Ø “Great cross-dialogue”

Ø “Enjoy open café setting”

Ø “Informative, very good”

Ø “New approach to discussing issues and accelerating innovation”

Ø “This is an excellent brainstorming technique – I like it!

Ø “Very interactive, pertinent to everyone’s future!”

Given this record of success, we can promise you a memorable experience – a sense of satisfaction that you are making a real contribution to our collective future, a great chance to connect with many of your peers, and a bit of fun thrown in. After all, who says we can’t have fun while doing something productive. You’ll wish that all the meetings you attend were more like this! You may also find that you can add one more tool to your “quality toolkit” – a Café approach to connecting and engaging people around meaningful questions and to harvesting the rich collective knowledge that emerges.