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Leadership and standards setting go hand in hand.

Would you like a growth opportunity? In particular, would you like to expand your skills in communicating with diverse stakeholders, building consensus and managing groups? You can build your leadership ability - benefiting your ASTM work and your career overall - by taking on additional responsibilities in your task group, subcommittee or main committee.

The consensus standards process provides a fertile environment for cultivating leadership skills and ASTM offers online resources to help you make the most of the leadership opportunities available at ASTM at its Leadership Connection.

Dennis Rounds knows something about leadership. A former member of the ASTM board of directors, Rounds is currently chairman of Committee E50 on Environmental Assessment, Risk Management and Corrective Action.

Rounds, a contract project manager for Morris Inc. in Ft. Pierre, South Dakota, says, "Active participation within ASTM International is a practical and real-world means to personal leadership development. It broadens one's interactive collaborative skills and heightens awareness of the importance of diverse ideas."

The online Leadership Connection includes resources for three groups: members, technical committees and employers. All can be helpful to you individually but also in connection with your colleagues and your company.

For Members

For Technical Committees

For Employers

"Leadership is much more than merely a side benefit to the participation in ASTM standards development," says Rounds. "It is a notable benefit in its own right."