Management Training

Managers are often promoted into managerial positions because they were good at the job itself. But being good at your previous role doesn’t necessarily make you a good manager. All too often managers are given little or no training, and are asked to learn the required skills ‘on the job’.

A manager’s role is to give people the direction (the what), motivation (the will), strategy (the how) and capability (the skill) to succeed. We call these the ‘4 Pillars of Management’.

Below you’ll find links to some of our articles to give you a flavour for our approach to management development and training.

Management & Blame

Being different can be challenging. Being different can unnerve, upset, irritate and anger others. Being different can be the best thing you’ll ever be. Because you are.

The best leaders don’t imitate others - they become the best versions of themselves they can be.

Management & Control

A lot of training out there in the market talks about skills training – leadership skills, management skills, communication skills, and so on – and, to be perfectly honest about it, we use that language as well.

However, a lot of the time when we talk about skills, dig deeper, and we’re actually talking about attitude instead.

Management & Risk

A historic Demos report into parenting, which looked across a couple of simple dimensions of approach, concluded that children brought up in a “tough love” environment were the ones most likely to succeed.

Professionally, there’s a clear link between this and leadership styles…