From Consultants to Leaders
The Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality sponsored a workshop on the subject of "From Consultants to Leaders," from April 25 - 27, 2002 in Roanoke, Virginia.
The purpose of this web site is threefold:
| to capture the outcomes of the April 25 - 27, 2002 workshop on "From Consultants to Leaders" held in Roanoke, Virginia |
| to outline the initiatives launched at that workshop |
| to chronicle the progress of those initiatives |
We are planning a second offering of the "From Consultants to Leaders" workshop. It will be offered on June 11 and 12, at the Downtown Hilton in Knoxville, Tennessee near the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. More details are found at this link.
What did participants say about the first offering (April 25 - 27, 20020 of this workshop? Some sample quotes:
"What a GREAT conference! Possibly the best job-related conference that I have ever gone to. Not that I go to tons of conferences, and those I go to tend to be technical methods oriented, but this stuff is exactly what Ineed right now for where our stat group is at in our company's evolution.."
"Exceeded my expectations. As facilitators, the presenters' guidance proved invaluable in developing detailed personal action plans for leadership development."
"By the end of the conference, I left with a much better understanding of the essential qualities of leadership. I also recognized more clearly the need to change statistician's image as passive consultants, and actively participated in developing the action plans to bring about change in the profession."
"Boy this is great! Stat Div. did a great job in sponsoring this timely conference."
NEW!!!! Discussion group to be used to capture ideas, questions and answers and such regarding the Leadership Initiatives:
Key documents from the April 25 - 27 workshop, which was facilitated by Van Bowen (University of Richmond), Roger Hoerl (General Electric), Bill Parr (University of Tennessee), Angela Patterson (General Electric), Ron Snee (Tunnell Consulting) and Geoff Vining (Virginia Tech):
| The WWW
site for the original workshop announcement |
| Stated expectations of
workshop participants |
| Presentation by Van Bowen to kick off the workshop |
What are executives and graduates saying about what it takes for statisticians to succeed?
| Presentation
by Geoff Vining, Van Bowen and Bill Parr re interviews they did with senior managers |
| Presentation by Angie Patterson re
interviews she did with graduates of statistical programs |
Presentations on Becoming Leaders and what needs to change:
Initiatives and Action Plans from the Workshop
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Action Plans from Industry Group 1 |
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Action Plans from Industry Group 2 |
| Action Plans
from Academic Group |
Wrap-up Items
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Final to do list items |
| Outbriefing / assessment of conference - plus / minus / delta |
You will note that several specific initiatives are described, with short term action plans, in the "Action Plans" documents for Industry Group 1, Industry Group 2 and the Academic Group. As progress occurs on each of these initiatives I will create a separate page and attached documentation for that initiative.
Recent changes to the "From
Consultants to Leaders WWW Site"
To visit Bill Parr's Home Page, click here: Bill Parr's Home Page