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"Training courses fit where they touch,and only
where they touch!" David Wilson
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- Be more influential, assertive and effective.
- Understand and motivate your colleagues and get the best out of them.
- Learn the 'how to…', not more concepts and theories, (the 'what').
"Perhaps you know what you ought to be doing. This
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Taken from The Sunday Times January 21, 2007 (full
article)
- "Work courses are 'wasting' £75m. Management training
and development schemes offer little value for money and need to be
revamped", writes Roger Eglin. "The 'investment'
companies have been pumping into training to create winning management
teams is largely valueless. British businesses are believed to be wasting
£75m a year on poor management development courses."
- Robert Myatt at Kaisen said: "Most of the methods
used on these programmes focused on educating leaders by giving them
useful concepts and theories. However, the capabilities they were really
trying to develop were more about skills - how to act and behave as
a leader, how to be more assertive and how to motivate people, for example.
You need to be able to practise these behavioural skills, and the only
way you can do this is by using them at work and getting feedback from
an expert."
- The director of executive education at Said Business School,
David Feeney, said "There is significant disaffection
with value for money. There are mixed opinions about the value of executive
education. Development courses are a bit like going on a two-day skiing
course in a hotel, where you watch some videos and read course material
and work in pairs to practise balancing. Then you are put at the top
of a steep slope and the instructor says, 'off you go now - you can
ski. You wouldn't dream of doing it. It's a skill that needs regular
practice with someone watching you."
- Another quote this time by Tony Askham of law firm Bond
Pearce, on using leadership coaching "We're having considerably
more success. People are trained to manage services but they have to
be good at managing client relationships and selling services - all
things they have not historically been taught to do. Now, he said, there
was a lot of one-to-one coaching and making sure that technical managers
had the range of business skills they needed."
- Read the full
article.
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A curious definition of Mentoring
The word has recently gained currency in the professional world, where
it is thought to be a good idea to have a mentor, a wise and trusted counsellor,
guiding one's career and maintaining focus and clarity on delivering what
is required for the success of the individual and the business. An appropriate
name for such a person because it probably meant "adviser" in
Greek and comes from the Indo-European root men-1, meaning "to think."
There are many examples of mentors in history and legend but the most
fascinating is Merlin. His role gradually evolved into that of magician,
prophet and advisor, active in all phases of the administration of King
Arthur's kingdom. "Merlin, who knew the range of all their arts,
had built the King his havens, ships and halls." - Vivian.
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