This July 4th, the Women in Standards wishes all of our members a happy and safe holiday celebration. https://vimeo.com/433829790 Many standards contribute to holiday celebrations. They ensure that products are made to established requireme ...
What questions will you ask today? Asking the right questions when calling and engaging with members will help you better understand them and what motivates their participation in your organization. Member surveys are great, but also remember to ...
Your membership can be an untapped source of marketing, promotion, and support for your organization. Members come from diverse backgrounds and their experience and skills can create a set of tools for your organization’s toolbox. Additionally, memb ...
Embracing your Unique Perspective “There’s more to diversity than gender, skin pigmentation and other physical characteristics,” Grant Freeland, contributor for Forbes stated in his December 2019 article on diversity. Who we are as people, what ...
Most of us are familiar with voluntary consensus standards (VCS) but what makes a standard a mandatory standard? Well, that depends! This article will explore the different ways standards become mandatory standards and how you can determine wh ...
Support Employees by Creating Purpose Are your employees focused at work? Are they excited to arrive each day and discuss future projects with interest? If not, your organization may be lacking clear purpose for employee work. Without ...
Motivate Your Committee to Give You Their Best Keeping a team engaged and motivated throughout a project is critical in ensuring high quality performance and on time completion. If you are working on a standards committee, your work is twice as h ...
Communicating your Change Plans You’d like to propose a change to your organization, it’s processes, or a standard managed by your committee. Or perhaps you’ve been told to make the change. Whatever the source, here you are, and communication is a cr ...
ICPHSO 2020 In February 2020 Karin Athanas, Women in Standards Executive Officer, attended the 2020 International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO) conference in Orlando, Florida. Each year the ICPHSO conference brings prod ...
Best Practice Recommendations for Submitting Comments on Draft Standards By Karen Reczek, Social Scientist within the Standards Coordination Office (SCO) at the National Institute of Standards & TechnologyAlmost every standards developing org ...
