05 Jan

Management Leadership Training Companies - What Should You Look For?


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Many of the management leadership companies I’ve seen appear to me to be very confused, at least from my perspective as I read their brochures and the objectives they announce as a result of participating in their management leadership training programs.

Often these management leadership training companies describe their programs to appeal to companies with clear lines of demarcation between line and staff employees.

They seem to be written to appeal to companies with different types of employees, some in the field and some in the office, some who are designated leaders and some who are called managers. Companies where there are hourly employees and supervisors, each with their own preordained inflexible roles.

These management leadership courses, at least their brochures, try to use words and expressions that make you feel important - like you and your company are more sophisticated and larger and more complex than they really are.

They use examples and descriptive language that would seem more appropriate based on the hierarchy normally associated with companies of 500 or more employees.

Maybe that’s because the brochures and web site contents are created by marketing people targeting organizations they would like their competitors to believe they work with or to impress their real potential customers with an implication of their sophistication.

Maybe they want you to believe that their management leadership courses are sought after by marquee companies in your industry? Who knows?

In the real world businesses are not organized the way these training companies describe their services for management and leadership training.

Everyone knows that 90% of all companies have fewer than 75 people.

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16 Jun

Management - Training Is An Investment for Forward Thinking Business Leaders

Training is not new to small businesses or to the Fortune 1000 corporations. Employees must be trained to learn specific skill sets within their job functions as well as policies and procedures. This is especially true in today’s technology driven 24/7 business world.

During the last 100 years, training has been viewed by some as the necessary evil. The prevailing belief was “We gotta to train them.” And when sales plummeted or companies merged, the leadership’s or management’s belief was to cut the training budgets as well as the human resource department. Now does this really make sense?

If your people are the key to overcoming current challenges, then why cut their resources when you are experiencing significant issues. This is the time more than ever to invest (key word here is invest) in YOUR people.

Slashing the training budget is in many cases a reaction to a symptom instead of the real much larger problem or problems. That problem or those problems may include the following:

Inability to define the desired results

HINT: If you can’t define the desired results that you want from the training, then why do the training? This is now a management problem, not a training problem.

No Strategic Plan

HINT: If there is no strategic plan (who does what by when), the you and your people are on some one else’s plan and the problem is poor planning, not training.

Outdated Strategic Plan

HINT: If you haven’t revisited your plan within the last 30 days, then the problem is not training, but again poor planning.

Poor Communication

HINT: If 100% of your people cannot tell you what the top 3 goals of the organization are for the current year, you have a communication problem not a training problem.

Inconsistent Leadership

HINT: If your actions are not consistently focused on the end results and your behaviors are not demonstrating the shared common values, then you have a leadership problem, not a training problem.

With the New Year fast approaching and the quarter quickly ending, now is the time for you as that forward thinking business leader to use your leadership skills to assess what the real problems that you are facing and not just the symptoms. Begin to belief that training is an investment in your people and therefore in your organization.

For without those most advanced systems (your people) in your business, you wouldn’t be able to conduct business, would you?

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