23 March 2011 
Job Search Seminar, Alert Students at The Catholic University of America
Alert Students at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC; Business and Economics Seniors
Do you need help finding a job after graduation?
Join us Tuesday, March 29th,
6:35p.m. in MCMA 200.
Learn how to develop a winning strategy to execute your job search.
Kristen Rompf, a recruiter/employment counselor will be giving a seminar on
career development and teaching job search techniques. Kristen has extensive experience working with students and professionals – advising them on finding positions with large and small companies, law firms, and nonprofit organizations.
Topics covered in the Career Development Seminar
• Creating a Strategy to Find a Job
• Corresponding with Potential Employers
• Networking and Reconnecting with References
• Developing Leads for New Jobs
• The Successful Interview
• Navigating from Second Interview to Offer
Looking for a job? — Pass this test.
Thank you (foot)notes,
Be sure to follow Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Twitter: @JackYoest and @CharmaineYoest
Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity and at Management Training of DC, LLC.
19 March 2011
Test, Chapters 1 to 11, Management 323, The Catholic University of America
Test for Management 323, The Catholic University of America, Ten points
You do not have to take the test if you are participating in the Business Simulation exercise on 22 March 2011, 2:00 to 6:30 in PRYZ room 342. The class will not meet on 22 March 2011.
Take Home, open book and open notes. No collaboration with other students. Please email to me-Due midnight 23 March 2011.
Chapters 1 to 11.
1. What is more important to the manager, technical skills or people skills and why?
2. Dr. Peter Drucker said that good managers _________________ the strengths of staff and ________________their weaknesses.
3. What is a monkey and on whose back does it belong?
4. Management is ___________________________________
___________________________________________________.
5. _______________ + ___________________ = motivation
6. Manager’s formula for success:
___________________ + ______________ = _________________
7. The manager should be: efficient or effective, and why?
8. The individual contributor should be efficient or effective, and why?
9. What did President John Adams say about controlling events?
10. What is the equity theory?
11. What is expectancy theory?
12. How do you know if you are being treated like a child at work, or behaving like a child?
13. What is the best way to learn to be a manager?
14. Describe the four E’s of Jack Welch.
For questions 15 to 18: Competent, Incompetent, Industrious, Lazy
15. Which two characteristics make for the best leader and why?
16. Which two characteristics make for the best staffer and why?
17. Which two characteristics make for the most dangerous manager and why?
18. Which two characteristics make for harmless-least dangerous manager and why?
19. What are the four components of management?
20. What is responsibility and can it be delegated?
Business Basics, BUSiness 100, Chapters 12 to 15
Define, explain, expand. The more words you use, the better: I might find the answer somewhere in all the verbiage.
1. Marketing
2. Name one of the functions of marketing
3. CRM
4. Lifetime value of a customer
5. Marketing mix
6. Market segment
7. What kind of income is of interest to marketers
8. Line extension
9. Brand
10. ROI
11. Market Share
12. Retailer
13. Wholesaler
14. Broker
15. Promotion Mix (Four Parts)
16. Product Placement
17. MAP
16 March 2011
Caroline Lewis, Guest Speaker,
Management 323, April 7, 2011;
The Catholic University of America
Caroline Lewis serves as President of Percipio Communications as well as Founder and President of Legalize Life International, Inc. a non-profit organization dedicated to advocacy for the dignity and beauty of human life. She is an expert in Real Life Management.
Miss Lewis will be speaking on Thursday, April 7, 2011 to the Management 323 class which meets at 2:10 pm at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C..
She was a former research intern for the Institute of World Politics, a former intern and periodic guest host for Point of View a nationally-syndicated radio talk show as well as a former guest and periodic guest host with Jerry Johnson Live radio show.
Miss Lewis received a B.A. from Southern Methodist University graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude with Honors in History and minors in Political Science and Medieval Studies.
Her honors and awards also include admittance into the Order of Omega, Phi Alpha Theta, National Society of Collegiate Scholars and she was the recipient of the Stanton Sharpe Award for Outstanding Service and Academic Achievement awarded by the Clements Department of History.
Through her work at home and abroad, Caroline seeks to build a society which honors the uniqueness and dignity of the human individual through communication, love, and advocacy.
Thank you (foot)notes,
From her website:
Welcome to Real Life Management
Navigating Your Real Life Journey
Every one of us has to take personal responsibility for our own life choices and our lifestyle management. We can’t expect anyone else to make decisions for us, or live our lives for us.
At Real Life Management we have built our business around helping “LEADERS” learn to make better life choices. By that we mean parents, teachers, school administrators, student leaders, corporate and government executives, managers, supervisors, independent business owners, public office holders, community officials, military men and women, religious leaders, deacons, elders, ministry team leaders and all other men and women who are in a position of leadership anywhere in our global society.
At Real Life Management we realize that people everywhere are struggling with choices in their life concerning their Health, their Finances and their Relationships. We believe that these issues are actually interrelated and we seek to provide keen insight into how we communicate and our priorities using an analogy of three different kinds of boats: Barges, Tugboats and Sailboats.
We use this image because real life is much like the sea and the most exciting and interesting part of anyone’s life journey is learning navigating through the many rough water challenges. They come at us in many different ways during a 24-hour period, and sometimes they hit us without warning. There are storms, high winds, and rolling waves, as well as calm waters and beautiful days when it’s pure bliss to navigate the seas.
Using this metaphor, we will give specific examples of how each boat navigates the rough waters of life and deals with the predictable “leaks” which are sure to develop in each boat. We then provide specific steps for how each of the boats can make navigational adjustments even as we can learn to make alterations to improve our lifestyle management. We call this the Real Life Management — ALTER Model. Through this proven ALTER Model you can make significant improvement and gain control of critical areas of your life and better lead others.
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A. Acknowledge your own “attitude” and “boat” using the 3-Minute Survey.
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L. Learn new information about the area(s) in which you need improvement.
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T. Tactical planning customized for your particular “attitude” and “boat” must be developed.
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E. Execution of the tactical plan and tracking progress for 90 days is critical.
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R. Reevaluate, Review, Redesign and Recommit to your lifestyle improvement plan.
You might ask, “Will I really be able to use this attitude awareness ALTER Model as a reality check and improvement plan for my personal life and my business?” The answer is YES ! Many others have done so and so can you!
So, whatever your background or experience is, whether you are self-employed, a corporate executive, a minister, a college professor, a military officer, a financial planner, a trade specialist, an administrative assistant, a stay-at-home mom, or a student everyone can benefit from learning to use the ALTER Model and related valuable tools available from Real Life Management. You will better understand yourself and those around you as well as enhance your personal, academic, ministry or business success.
After you have utilized the 3-Minute Survey and the Full 12 Page Comprehensive Report, various videos, CD programs, Life Coaching Seminars, special promotional product packages, downloadable files and our two trade books on this subject matter, you will discover the “Determinative” influence of your “Attitude”, “Gifts” and “Wiring” on every aspect of your life.
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At Home
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At Work
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At Your Place of Worship
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In Schools and Universities
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In Organizations
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In The Financial Industry
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In The Health and Fitness Industry
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In The Counseling Industry
Congratulations on choosing Real Life Management.
We trust that you will enjoy the journey!
7 March 2011
The Virginia Space Grant Consortium Awards Scholarships
The Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) has done over 1,000 scholarships totaling $4.6M to date. Each year it awards 90-100 scholarships. For more information please see the website at www.vsgc.odu.edu
The Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) is a coalition of five Virginia colleges and universities, NASA, state educational agencies, Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology, and other institutions representing diverse aerospace education and research.
The VSGC acts as an umbrella organization, coordinating and developing aerospace-related and high technology educational and research efforts throughout the Commonwealth and connecting Virginia’s effort to a national community of shared aerospace interests.
3 March 2011
Leadership Quiz, MGT 323, The Catholic University of America
Define:
1) Vision
2) Power
3) Charismatic Leader
4) Peter Drucker said managers maximize _________, and minimize ____________.
5) What does the “S” in SAGE mean?
6) Name one of the leader decision styles and explain.
7) Name one of the traditional approaches to studying leadership and explain.
Management can be described in one word____________. Business can be described in one word _____________.
9) Jack Welch listed traits of leaders beginning with “E.” Name one and explain.