Interview with Kathryn Miller On June 30, 2021 Women in Standards Executive Officer Karin Athanas sat down with Kathryn Miller, Publishing Services Librarian with the Information Services Office, NIST, to discuss Ms. Miller's work within NIST to ...
Creating an Inclusive Workspace Opening the Door to Coworkers and Colleagues When someone new joins the team, do you invite them out for lunch, walk them around to introduce them to everyone on the team or at the company, or spend time to te ...
Diversity and Inclusivity at NIST By Mary Theofanos and Justyna Zwolak (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Who we are The Articles of Confederation and President George Washington recognized that the “Uniformity in the curr ...
Preparing for a Successful Conference Experience Creating Your Conference Toolkit Whether in person or virtual, conferences are a key resource to any professional and should be approached with planning and consideration. Many people attend a ...
The Standards Development Life Cycle Why does it take so long? Why does standards development take so long? I’m sure we’ve all been asked this question. The reality is that anything that worth doing, takes a bit of time to do. Especially whe ...
Checking In as a Management Strategy Building a Positive Environment for Committee Member Engagement Working with committees (also called consensus bodies) to develop standards can be difficult. Members may be located around the world and operate in ...
What Does it Mean to Build Consensus? By Karen Reczek, Social Scientist within the Standards Coordination Office (SCO) at the National Institute of Standards & TechnologyIn standards developing, one of the key guiding principles is “consensus ...
The Role of a Parliamentarian Parliamentarians have been credited with assisting the standardization community and standards developing and setting organizations in particular in addressing difficult questions and applying their policies and procedur ...
Delegating at Work How to Delegate Effectively Delegation is considered a core proficiency of leaders because it’s so difficult to do. Most people think that there are certain tasks that only they can complete. As a leader, there isn’t time to comple ...
Communication During Conflict How to be Heard in the Heat of the Moment Conflict in a committee or consensus body is not unexpected or uncommon. The members of the committee are there to share their ideas and come to agreement on which to incorporate ...
