Over $3,500 of products and services

More than $3,500 worth of additional products and services are included with your attendance.

1. IT Manager Institute CD (Value - $874.00)
Includes my entire library of practical insight and tools to help you manage IT effectively:

A. IT Manager Development Series - the ten books written specifically to help IT managers achieve more and the foundation for the Institute program.
- IT Management-101: Fundamentals to Achieve More
- Building a Strategic IT Plan
- Building a Successful IT Organization
- IT Asset Management
- IT Staff Motivation and Development
- IT Project Management: a practical approach
- Developing an IT Business Plan: budgeting made simple
- IT Due Diligence: conducting an effective IT assessment
- IT Assimilation: leveraging the merger
- What to Look For in a CIO

B. IT Manager ToolKit - 80 specific management tools developed to help me organize, monitor, and manage my IT organizations. Includes tools for budgeting, strategy, assessment, project management, employee motivation, employee management, career planning, and much more.

C. Technology Cost Saving Strategies - 50 cost saving strategies I have used to save companies hundreds of thousands of dollars.

D. Practical IT Policies and Procedures - a process and 23 sample policies to help you develop your own policies and procedures quickly.

E. IT Management Models - a unique and innovative product including over 60 management models that are discussed in IT management terms and situations.

F. Building a Responsive Help Desk - Information is the key to any manager's success. Make your Help Desk the source of key first line response to your "customers" and provide you meaningful information to improve your IT business.

G. Mike Sisco's IT Manager Articles Collection - A collection of more than 100 articles written for my Practical IT Manager Tips Newsletter. Lots of information here to help any IT manager.

2. Work place behavioral profile (Value - $250.00) Prior to attending the Institute, you will complete a quick survey (10 minutes or so) that will give me tremendous insight into how you are operating in your current work environment. Participants are always amazed at how accurate this profile is and how much I already know about you, even before meeting you.

This tool and the informational questionnaire you provide plus the "pre-class interview " will give me plenty of insight into your personal situation. No one in the industry does this amount of preparation before class. It becomes a vital tool to help me address issues that relate to your specific situation and give you insight to help you be more successful. It also helps me develop your 30-day Action Plan.

3. Customized 30-day Action Plan (Value - $1,000.00)
At my average consulting rate of $250.00 per hour, it would cost much more than $1,000 for me to assess your situation and to develop a specific 30-day action plan. I use a conservative amount for this exercise. Each participant develops their own 30-Day Action Plan as part of the exercises that conclude each module.

4. 90 days of free mentoring support (Value - $1,500.00)
One way to assure your success is to provide you with ongoing support and help after the program is completed. Need another set of eyes to look at an employee situation? Call me or send me an email message. Need insight into how I would look at a client or vendor situation? Contact me and let's talk about it. Need help in using one of the tools? I want to help you take advantage of every aspect of the Institute. Participants are encouraged to use this service.

Want help in finding cost savings in your company? Call me and we will work through it together. I want you to recoup the costs of the program and gain recognition from your senior management team. It adds credibility to you as a manager and to the Institute program; it is truly a win - win, , , , plus your company recoups its investment by much more than what was spent for the program.

The value is based on an average of two hours of time per month in the 90-day free support window.

5. Membership in MDE's IT Manager Round Table (Value - ???)
The IT Manager Round Table is a special forum for IT Manager Institute participants and "special invited members" to share ideas, look for assistance and to help one another. The Round Table will grow over time and has the opportunity of becoming a valuable resource to each of its members. Every IT Manager Round Table member receives a minimum of a 50% discount off any MDE product or service. The overall value of this one benefit can be worth thousands of dollars in itself as we introduce new products and services to help IT managers achieve more.

6. Institute Notebook and tools handouts (Value - $75.00)
A complete class notebook of all the presentations is included plus copies of many of the management tools we discuss in detail to help provide insight into being the effective manager you are to become.

7. Class extras (Value - ???)
You have to attend to find out about this one. All I can tell you is that I believe in "giving back". Believe me, you will remember being part of an IT Manager Institute for a very long time.

The benefits of the Institute go well beyond the course and you will continue to receive more benefits from MDE for years to come. Part of the commitment we make for every IT Manager Institute participant is to continue to "give back" long after the program is over.

Why?

Because we consider Institute participants to be a special group - those who make a commitment to develop their IT management skills and invest in themselves and their company we make an extra effort. At MDE, we believe in win-win relationships and that's why we want every Institute participant to freely say that it was not only a good investment initially but that it continues to pay them back years after they attend the 5-day class.