22 April 2009 
The One Minute Manager Meets The Monkey: The Video at Northern Virginia Community College
Ken Blanchard and Bill Oncken’s One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey is reviewed in this short lecture at the Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia.
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8 April 2009
What’s The Best Way To Find A Job?;
What’s Best To Do While Looking For A Job?
The best time to look for a job is when you have a job.
Question: But what if you don’t have a job?
How to look?
And what to do meanwhile?
Answer: Go back to school.
Your Business Blogger(R)
The Washington Post
Continuous learning is, well, continuous.
And it doesn’t have to be expensive.
Here are three FAB’s, the Features, Advantages and Benefits of going back to class.
If you have a job or not.
First Feature
Meet a professor
Advantage
Learn subject matter.
Learn presentation — interview — life skills.
Get referrals.
Benefit
Cheaper than a personal coach.
Get a character reference letter.
Get employed faster
Second Feature
Meet other inquisitive minds
Advantage
Expand your Friend contact database.
Challenge assumptions.
Increased network of contacts for job referrals.
Benefit
Faster learning.
Cheaper than a job placement agency.
Get employed faster
Third Feature
Regularly scheduled class times.
Advantage
Encourages the student to get out of bed, out of the house.
Provides structure to the job seekers’ week.
Forces the student to walk past career counselors’ office.
Benefit
Get more done in less time.
Spend less time in Starbucks.
Get employed faster.
The purpose of continuing education is the gaining of new knowledge, skills and abilities. But this is even more important when one is out of work. A perspective employer is going to ask you a number of questions.
The first question will be, “What are you doing now?”
The perfect answer is, “As I look for my next position, I am taking a business refresher course at my local community college.”
Remember: the best time to find a job is when you are working — going to class is your job.
You may be unemployed, but you are busy: You are using your time wisely while you look for work.
As it happens, the Northern Virginia Community College has the perfect solution to help you find your next job.
Come and sit in my class.
NOVA has openings in one of my Business 100 classes. We will meet once each Friday from 3:10 to 6:00 at the Alexandria Campus. Starts January 16th. Call now to register. Operators are standing by.
Or apply on-line.
This Friday afternoon class is the perfect capstone to the week and allows the student to job hunt early in the week, early in the day.
Come join my class. And get employed faster.
Thank you (foot)notes:
For more on your job search: tattoos, lying, resume enhancement and trick questions follow links below.
Read Job Search? PASS This Test
See how “Sarah” is getting it right. To get your next job, assignment or project PASS this test! See how the mythical composite Sarah learned new behaviors to find new opportunities.
As first appeared in The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Virginia, January 20, 2002
To get a job, first get a plan and then get busy…
Your Business Blogger(R) is of a certain age from a certain generation with teenage children and is confused by various body art. I do not understand tattoos. (Except on my dad, who was in the Navy…) A future employer also may not understand body art. Not even Starbucks.
What is the first question hiring managers ask themselves? Get a Blog; Get Hired — And the First Question
The Lie: A Guide to Fibbing in the Job Interview, it’s not what you think.
Here’s what your interviewer is really looking for, Job Interview: How To Tell If the Candidate Will Lie, Cheat, Steal?
There is actually controversy on hiring competence, Hiring Super Stars vs Tolerating Turkeys
Be sure to ask some questions in your job interview, Job Interview: 3 Questions for Your Prospective Boss.
Yes, High School still counts. Forever. What’s the One Best Question to Ask a Job Candidate?
Why Were You Really Hired? The Two Qualities That Count.
Here’s the Business 100 course outline:
Ch. 1 Exploring the World of Business and Economics
Ch. 2 Being Ethical & Socially Responsible
Ch. 3 Exploring Global Business
Ch. 4 Navigating the World of e-Business
Ch. 5 Choosing a Form of Business Ownership
Ch. 6 Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Franchises
Ch. 7 Understanding the Management Process
Ch. 8 Creating a Flexible Organization
Ch. 10 Attracting and Retaining the Best Employees
Ch. 11 Motivating and Satisfying Employees and Teams
Ch. 13 Building Customer Relationships Through Effective Marketing
Ch. 14 Creating and Pricing Products that Satisfy Customers
Ch. 15 Wholesaling, Retailing, and Physical Distribution
Ch. 16 Developing Integrated Marketing Communications
Ch. 18 Using Accounting Information
Ch. 19 Understanding Money, Banking, and Credit
App. C Business Law
FREE Seminar. Human Resource Management: Get That Promotion; Get That Job
PowerPoint slides here:
Job Search Handout:
You are in control of your own career. Start now.
Human Resource Management: Get That Promotion; Get That Job
Learn how to earn that promotion. And earn how to get that job. On April 29, 2009 from 11am to 12:15 pm a career management seminar will be conducted at The NOVA Theater at the Alexandria Campus of the Northern Virginia Community College.
Save the date. The seminar is at no-charge and is open to the public. Space is limited and registration is required. Email me to hold your seat.
We will cover: The five rules to getting promoted:
1) Don’t make the boss nervous.
2) Deliver Completed Staff Work.
3) Adopt the Army’s definition of discipline (and it’s not what you think).
4) Find a friend.
5) Get your boss promoted.
Your next big job. It will be:
A) From someone you know (slightly).
B) A created position.
C) In high technology.
The thoughtful professional knows that he is constantly selling his knowledge, skills and abilities to his boss and to his peers.
The professional knows also that each position on the company organization chart can be an opportunity to be groomed with a track record of success — to move easily to a higher level…or to another company.
The professional in a job search has the choice of pro-actively conducting a sales and marketing campaign to move to his next assignment by selling the intangible of his talent.
If the seminar attendee is on the job market, his choice is networking or not working.
The seminar reviews the steps needed to secure more responsibility within an organization or even another position inside his company — or outside his current employer.
The purpose of this career management seminar is to increase your value to your current employer and to your future company. And to prepare the attendee to move and to be ready to change jobs in a fast changing, uncertain world.
Who: Professionals interested in earning a promotion or seeking increased responsibilities or in conducting a job search.
What: The career management seminar will equip the attendee with strategies and tactics on how to increase the attendees’ value in the marketplace of talent and to command greater compensation in another position.
When: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 11:00am to 12:15pm
Where: Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus, campus map The NOVA Theater; the new Bisdorf Auditorium, room 196 3001 North Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311 street map
Why: To enable the attendee to gain the greatest return on the attendees’ time and talent in his income-producing career.
Cost: No Charge. Register here at JYoest@NVCC.edu. Space is limited.
Jack Yoest, Adjunct Professor of Business at NOVA and President of Management Training of DC, LLC, is a former Armored Cavalry Officer in Combat Arms. For over 30 years he has managed software, health care and international human resource management companies.
His experience spans the military, Fortune 500, government, start-ups, non-profits, media and academia. He conducts career management training for professionals in industries from law to government, from for-profit businesses to non-for-profit organizations, from military to media.
He has participated in hundreds of personal interviews of job candidates and has been instrumental in the hiring of thousands of employees.
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 sales account manager with a medical device start-up and helped move sales from zero to over $12 million, opening over 300 accounts, resulting in a buy-out by Johnson & Johnson.
Jack has consulted across industries and in China and India.
Questions? www.Yoest.com, JYoest@NVCC.edu or call Jack at 202.215.2434.
Come to this class. Parking info at the jump.
Thank you (foot)notes and suggested class reading:
Helping sentences for employee evaluations.
The secret on how to get a letter of recommendation.
What is the first question hiring managers ask themselves? Get a Blog; Get Hired — And the First Question
The Lie: A Guide to Fibbing in the Job Interview, it’s not what you think.
Here’s what your interviewer is really looking for, Job Interview: How To Tell If the Candidate Will Lie, Cheat, Steal?
There is actually controversy on hiring competence, Hiring Super Stars vs Tolerating Turkeys
Be sure to ask some questions in your job interview, Job Interview: 3 Questions for Your Prospective Boss.
Yes, High School still counts. Forever. What’s the One Best Question to Ask a Job Candidate?
Why Were You Really Hired? The Two Qualities That Count.
What to do while looking for a job? Click Here.
Save the Date: April 29, 2007
Please pass this link on to a friend who might be interested.
Event registration is also available to Friends on Facebook.
Follows is parking information if you will be able to join us.
If by car, street map.
X Marks the spot, the Bisdorf lecture hall/auditorium room 196.
(The NOVA Theater.)
Northern Virginia Community College
Alexandria Campus
3001 North Beauregard Street 22311
Circled are metered parking lots for visitors without NVCC parking permits.
The auditorium/lecture hall is at the east wing of the Bisdorf Building. Please know that the parking at the Beauregard Street Garage (AP) is convenient but there is a short up-hill walk to Bisdorf.
If by Metro, you might wish to stop at King Street on the Blue Line. The NVCC Alexandria Campus is served by the DASH #6 and Metrobus lines 7A, E, F; 25A, B, F, G, J, P, R, B, C. Please allow 30 minutes travel from King Street Metro. For more transportation information call 202.637.7000.
Thank you (foot)notes,
* Alert Readers know that there is no free lunch. The seminar is not ‘free.’ It is provided ‘at no charge’ as a public service courtesy of the Northern Virginia Community College and the taxpayers of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Students, remember to email to me the names of your guests.
Louis the XVIII once said that Punctuality is the courtesy of kings. However, if your busy schedule prevents your prompt arrival at 11am, please come even if delayed. The auditorium is designed so that late attendees will not disturb the presentation. Better late than never.
PowerPoint slides here:
7 April 2009
(No) Free Lunch and Rush Limbaugh
Post originally ran over a year ago:
No Free Lunch Milton Friedman, Robert A. Heinlein “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch,” perhaps first said by science fiction writer Heinlein and made popular by Nobel Laureate Friedman. It is often shortened to TANSTAAFL.
And you won’t find one here either.
But.
Your Business Blogger(R) has a number of 60-second commercials running in the DC market pitching a luncheon and the Managing Management Time(tm) seminars.
If you are in the greater Washington, DC area, here’s a free lunch. Almost.
Trade me your time and talent.
Listen to my commercial and leave me a comment on what you think about the marketing/sales pitch. You get a FREE lunch on the 23rd in DC or the 24th in Baltimore, save 25 bucks.
I get feedback.
Click here for the audio. And if you catch it on the air please let me know how it sounds.
Grade me on verbiage, volume, background music, cadence, sales hook.
The commercial is running for a week.
The ad is running tomorrow 17 August Friday at 12:30 pm (during Rush Limbaugh)
4:49 pm, and
6:49pm
Let me know what you think. And get lunch. [Offer has expired, sorry.]
The seminar is for the benefit of the Susan B. Anthony List.
Thank you (foot)notes:
No Free Lunch–and No Free Health Care, Either
TANSTAAFL is the name of a snack bar in the Pierce dormitory of the University of Chicago. The name references the fact that the use of the term was popularized by Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize–winning former University of Chicago professor.
Restrictions apply. Supply is limited. A $25 donation will be made to the Susan B. Anthony List for each commenter. And the FREE lunch.
4 April 2009
Why Academics…and Entrepreneurs Can’t Manage
Your Business Blogger(R) will be leading, Why Academics…and Entrepreneurs Can’t Manage, a round table discussion at the National Association of Community College Entrepreneurship. Chicago, 11-14 October. Come by and visit. See the sessions here.
Why Academics…and Entrepreneurs Can’t Manage
At the completion of this presentation, the attendee will understand,
1. The Management Equation: Vocational Time vs. Management Time
2. How Management Really Works: The Network of Management
3. The Mistake of Micro-Management: The Nervous Manager
Why Academics…and Entrepreneurs Can’t Manage
Entrepreneurs and Academics are typically poor managers. Not only because they might lack a particular skill set, but because of the expectation of vocational perfection. They share the passion for the perfect in their products.
But to understand and practice management, a “batting-average” model of non-perfection is needed.
There is a fundamental difference between the work of the individual contributor and the contribution of a manager. The entrepreneur, as an individual contributor, brings a new vision for a new product or service. But introducing the Next Big Thing requires basic management.
The teacher and new-product visionary are individual contributors whose work is the creation of “perfection.” But management does not — must not — deal only in this perfection. Because it is the managerial skill set which brings the individual contributor’s perfect product to market to do business.
The entrepreneur as individual contributor understands the basic formula: Work = Results. But the teacher working with the individual contributor, who needs to become a manager, must emphasize that work alone will not have the world beat a path to the inventor’s door.
Management has a more complicated formula with an additional variable: Network. This ‘Network of Support’ is the ability of the entrepreneur as manager to get the support of investors, advisors, external stakeholders, customer, staffers and subordinates.
The entrepreneur should see his role as manager with a new formula: Work + Network = Results.
The results and success of the entrepreneur’s venture depends as much on his ability to manage as his brilliance in new product creation.
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Jack Yoest is an Adjunct Professor at the Northern Virginia Community College and is president of Management Training of DC. He worked with Menlo Care, a start-up medical device manufacturer as part of a team that moved sales from zero to over $12 million, resulting in a buy-out by Johnson & Johnson.
He also served as Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Resources in Virginia, where he was responsible for the successful Year 2000 conversion for the $5 billion, 16,000-employee unit.
Jack has been published by Scripps-Howard News Service and has contributed to Small Business Trends, Small Business Trends Radio, The Business Monthly, Business & Media Institute and National Review Online. His web-log was nominated for Best Business Blog in 2006. Jack is a former Captain in the Army.
He earned an MBA from George Mason University and completed graduate work in the International Operations Management Program at Oxford University.