Mark Your Calendar:

  • The Quality Lunch Bunch meets for a quick bite at the Holiday Inn, Tuesday, August 12th. The Lunch Bunch convenes immediately following the regular monthly Board meeting which starts at 11:30 A.M. - all are welcome but the lunch is on you. Depending on how windy the Board is, the secret presenter may start talking at 12 noon or 12:15 PM.
  • The next Board of Directors meeting is on Tuesday, August 12th, 11:30 AM at the Holiday Inn in Mankato. It's never boring.

 


Achieving Excellence Through Customer Service - John Tschohl

On the night of Thursday, March 13th, a room full of local folks got a good taste of what a engaging, nationally recognized customer service guru thinks. And the Q & A that followed was stimulating - John Tschohl held no punches. The event was jointly sponsored by the Mankato Area Council for Quality and the American Society for Quality. This special presentation was held at South Central College in the Heritage Hall. The topic was "Achieving Excellence Through Customer Service".

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Beth Colway - I&S Group

4/8/2008

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Beth Colway briefed Quality Council members on the I&S Group, its engineering and architectural services, and the importance of community involvement for any company or organization.

I&S Group, with 30 years of experience in the Greater Mankato Area, has grown to 80 employees and prides itself in providing a wide range of architectural and engineering services including civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, etc. Colway stated that I&S Group has a "full house" of design professionals and sees the merit of having its interior designers working right along with the architects to ensure the best in design options for their clients.

I&S Group has experience with "Green" designing. Although "green designs" are relatively new for the industry, this design approach has positive environmental impacts from the construction materials utilized to the environmentally sensitive disposition of discarded materials.

During I&S Group's 30th anniversary year, it's employees contributed over a hundred hours in Habitat for Humanity's' 30th house in the Greater Mankato Area.

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Above and Beyond Award to Clements Auto's Thomas Thompson -

Congratulations to Thomas Thompson of Clements Auto Company who received an Above and Beyond Award on March 12th for providing great customer service. View the award details here.

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Quality Briefing was at the Holiday Inn, on Tuesday, January 8th. January's Quality Movement Focus was on: Innovative Office Solutions, the exclusive office supply contract vendor which handles all office supplies ordered by the many academic and administrative offices at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Gary Feichtinger made the presentation from the perspective of Innovative Office Solutions as the service provider and demonstrated to us how keeping Minnesota State's departments happy involves techniques we can all learn from.

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2007 Award Banquet pictures :

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Have you experienced an example of great customer service?
Let us recognize that work with a "Above and Beyond Award". Click here to complete this short award request.

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Quality Council President Jeff Halla Presenting Award to
Can Do Clothing Alterations in the River Hills Mall.


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Quality Council President Jeff Halla Presenting Award to
Dr. Ken Ambrose from the Minnesota Valley Pet Hospital. Click here to see other past recipients.

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