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 conferen ...
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 ...
An Earned Title is Worthy of Acclaim and Yes, Inclusion in One’s Signature Line 22 December 2020 Statement by the Women in Standards Board of Directors Download PDF On 11 December 2020, a Wall Street Journal opinion suggested that the earned degree ...
How the WTO TBT and Free Trade Agreements Support Standards How the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (WTO TBT) and U.S. Free Trade Agreements support the promotion and use of national and international standard ...
Mentoring the Next Generation of Professionals How Mentoring Can Empower the Workforce Mentorship is a collaborative relationship between two people where one provides support, development, and direction to the other. Mentorship plays an imp ...
