How Were You Trained To become A Manager? Who trained you and who trained them?

Did you receive any training before you became a manager? Most managers were never even trained to become managers but were placed into a position simply because it came available and they were next in line! There was no selection process. No tests or psychological profiling that went into their placement. And that is most typically answered with a resounding YES!!! by all of the people who suffer under the auspices of a bad or mediocre manager. So tell me, what training did you receive? Did you go to management classes taught by an outside vendor? because 90% of all in-house management training is taught by someone who has limited management training themselves and merely inherited the Training Position. This alone is responsible for thousands of lost man hours and thousands of unhappy employees because inadequately trained managers do not know how to use the exceptional people that are working with and for them. They don't know how to confront, delegate and utilize the people working under them. So bullying in the workplace stays strong because managers are not trained on how to deal in these areas! Great Managers understand and have learned how to deal with all kinds of personalities and learn how to out perform other departments by making their people happy and wanting to do great jobs for their manager. Most managers are improperly trained and therefore limited in their knowledge and their abilities to perform or excel outside of the scope of their experience. That means they can only teach you as much as they know. But we all know that each generation teaches less than they know so you aren't even being trained via what they know but only what they can pass on to you. What most companies desire is to achieve excellence in their organizations. Most understand that this excellence is achieved by utilizing their greatest resource – people. And most companies understand that the greatest loss of productivity is through the mismanagement of people and the under utilization of their abilities and skills. Now I ask again, who trained you and what additional training are you achieving on your own? I write this management blog for the mere pleasure of helping struggling managers learn more about how to get the most out of themselves and out of their people. I hope you enjoy reading it and forward it on to your peers. But let’s talk about what is really happening. If you are relying on a simple afternoon training class or some video training you were required to take then you are missing the most important part of management training. The interaction. The ability to ask questions in and of a person who has suffered through many of the things you are trying to figure out. Who has gained knowledge and background after years of managing as well as taking courses from others who we can learn from. The Great Management Trainers are never boring because we have been forced to set through hours and hours of terrible management meetings, hours and hours of boring meetings because the managers didn’t know how or understand the purpose of those meetings. And we have put ourselves out there to learn from other trainers and learned that boring is not only bad but ridiculous! Now you need to step up your game. You want the bosses to notice you? Then you need to be noticeable! You need to start showing them the results that only a great manager can achieve. And you can start that process by self training. Don’t wait for your company or your bosses to train you. Don’t wait! Take on the leadership you want by learning to be the leader they need. Read some of my past blogs and then follow the new ones and encourage your bosses and other managers to hire a GREAT management trainer (hint hint nudge nudge) to come in and start the process to make your company into the successful and powerful organization they want it and you need it to be. I am Steve Sapato with http://www.mentalprosperityblog.com and I have been training corporate managers for over twenty years. 563-370-4938