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ornament 11 November 2008 ornament

How to get Promoted; Be Promotable…or Keep from getting fired

Managers & Staff, Career Advancement:
How to Promote & Be Promoted. FREE

Managers, How do you train your team members to take more responsibility?
To Award a Promotion.

Staffers, How do you work to earn more responsibility?
To Earn a Promotion.

If your career management skills need to be sharpened, join us at the Northern Virginia Community College, Arlington, Virginia.

Who: Managers & Individual Contributors; Owners & Direct Reports
What: Learn the benchmarks to promotion.
When: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Where: NVCC, Room 304, 4600 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, 22203 Behind Holiday Inn. See Map.
Why: Increase the student’s value to the organization
Cost: No Charge. Registration is required. Parking is limited.

Since 1960, over one million people have been trained in our practice of management. The MMT class teaches the manager, to leverage management time, and the time of your team, to get more done.

We teach Solutions to Your Management Problems.

Harvard Business Review published Managing Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey? in 1974, by Bill Oncken, Jr.. The article, an edited excerpt of the MMT seminar, has gone on to become one of the two most requested reprints in the history of the Review. The training summarized in the article is sometimes called the “Monkey Management” seminar.

Jack Yoest, Adjunct Professor of Management and President of Management Training of DC, is a former Armored Cavalry Officer in Combat Arms. His military leadership training and experience guides his management philosophy at the core of Managing Management Time™. He has managed software, health care and international human resource management companies.

Jack also served in the Governor’s Office of the Commonwealth Virginia as Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Resources where he acted as the Chief Technology Officer for the secretariat. He was responsible for the successful Year 2000 (Y2K) conversion for the 16,000-employee unit. He was also a manager with a medical device start-up and helped move sales from zero to over $12 million, resulting in a buy-out by Johnson & Johnson. Jack has consulted in China and India.
Questions? www.Yoest.com, Jack@Yoest.org, or call Jack at 202.215.2434 to save your spot.

Here’s the script for the YouTube clip,

Manage Your Career: Learn How To Get Promoted, Managers & Staff, Career Advancement: How to Promote & Be Promoted. #9
This is Jack Yoest Your Business Blogger® with Solutions to Your Management Problems.
Managers: How do you train your team members in the right way to take more responsibility?
So that You can Award them with a Promotion?
Staffers: How do you work the right way to earn more responsibility?
So that You can Earn that Promotion…Or to keep from getting fired.
If your career advancement management skills need to be sharpened, join us in the seminar named
Manage your career: Learn how to get promoted & be promotable.
This course is designed for both Managers & Individual Contributors; Owners & Direct Reports
To Learn the benchmarks to promotion…or termination
The purpose is to increase the attendees’ value to their organizations.
To successfully navigate the office politics of promotion and earn more money.
To learn more about getting promoted visit YOEST dot com
That’s Y O E S T dot com

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ornament 8 November 2008 ornament

How To Be The CEO

This review comes from Your Business Blogger(R)’s files — it is not my original work. If the Alert Reader knows the author, please advise,

Approach as CEO

1. Build Unity

a. Build unity through consensus around the Strategic Plan

b. Convert this Strategic Plan in Operating Plan for ongoing focus.

c. Nurture unity through a regular review of Results vs. Plan.

2. Build Business

a. Forecast evolution of market, by client, by product.

b. Re-engineer existing process to fit evolving markets.

c. Stimulate creativity to drive the manufacturing division.

d. Diversify into premium services using the organization’s obvious competitive edge.

3. Broaden Advocacy

a. Reposition company as upbeat pioneer and “dream maker.”

b. Build reputation as ["talent developer"] to “graduate” [subordinates to greater responsibilities at other organizations].

c. Forge strategic alliances upon development of leading edge technology.

d. Secure share of national resources.

4. Distribute Information About Developments

a. Results from testing hardware, software, and related information.

b. Distribute via [email and blogs].

c. Similar distribution to [outlets] with more specific audience needs

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ornament 7 November 2008 ornament

Manage Your Career: Learn How To Get Promoted, FREE

Managers & Staff, Career Advancement:

How to Promote & Be Promoted. FREE

Managers: How do you train your team members to take more responsibility?

To Award a Promotion.

Staffers: How do you work to earn more responsibility?

To Earn a Promotion…Or to keep from getting fired.

If your career management skills need to be sharpened, join us at the Northern Virginia Community College, Arlington, Virginia.

Who: Managers & Individual Contributors; Owners & Direct Reports

What: Learn the benchmarks to promotion…or termination

When: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 4:00 to 5:30pm

Where: NVCC, Room 304, 4600 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, 22203

Behind Holiday Inn. See Map.

Why: Increase the student’s value to the organization

Cost: No Charge. Registration is required. Parking is limited.


Since 1960, over one million people have been trained in our practice of management. The MMT class teaches the manager, to leverage management time, and the time of your team, to get more done. We teach Solutions to Your Management Problems.

Harvard Business Review published Managing Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey? in 1974, by Bill Oncken, Jr.. The article, an edited excerpt of the MMT seminar, has gone on to become one of the two most requested reprints in the history of the Review. The training summarized in the article is sometimes called the “Monkey Management” seminar.

Jack Yoest, Adjunct Professor of Management and President of Management Training of DC, is a former Armored Cavalry Officer in Combat Arms. His military leadership training and experience guides his management philosophy at the core of Managing Management Time™. He has managed software, health care and international human resource management companies.

Jack also served in the Governor’s Office of the Commonwealth Virginia as Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Resources where he acted as the Chief Technology Officer for the secretariat. He was responsible for the successful Year 2000 (Y2K) conversion for the 16,000-employee unit. He was also a manager with a medical device start-up and helped move sales from zero to over $12 million, resulting in a buy-out by Johnson & Johnson. Jack has consulted in China and India. He was recently featured in The Washington Post.

Questions? www.Yoest.com, Jack@Yoest.org, or

call Jack at 202.215.2434 to save your spot.

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ornament 6 November 2008 ornament

Career Advancement; Managers & Staff: How to Promote & be Promotable

<a href=”http://www.yoest.com/”>Your Business Blogger(R)</a> is opening a Northern Virginia Community College classroom in Arlington, Virginia near the Ballston Metro for a one hour seminar:

Managers and Staff; Career Advancement: How to Promote and be Promotable.

There is no charge to sit in on the class.  On Wednesday, Nov 19 at 4pm.

But you will need to <a href=”mailto:jack@yoest.org”>email me</a> to register — class size is limited.

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