How much more valuable is experience than management training in the making of an effective manager?
22 Jan 2007
There is no doubt that we can learn by our experiences and that taking the learning from different situations and applying it to new decisions and dilemmas is a good way of us becoming more effective as line managers. However when it comes to dealing with the human variable then we sometimes find that what we have experience that works well in one situation with one person does not work as effectively with a different person. This is due to the differences in personality, style, attitude and behaviour that different humans present to the world. This variability in response from one person to another can also affect a person’s ability and willingness to learn from the different situations that they are faced with. Some of us seemingly get ourselves into the same difficulty time after time and we appear not to learn how to act differently when this same issue presents itself to us again.
The benefits that management training brings to this situation are as follows:-
• It allows us to stand back and look at our behaviour more objectively and without the direct personal involvement that we have when handling “real life” issues.
• Examples and case studies can be used to clearly highlight the issues and potential solutions.
• Management training specialists have the skills to bring out the key learning points for individuals and if appropriate to challenge traditional or rigid thinking.
• Participants often learn new ideas and approaches from their peer participants on a management training programmes
• Participants are better able to discuss, experiment and practice new ideas and solutions in the relative safety of a training programme that they would be reluctant to put into practice in the real workplace.
Many managers get to be promoted into this management role directly because of the experience and expertise that they have acquired in doing the tasks required of them very well in their occupations as practitioners, whether or not the skill required is physical or mental or both and whether or not the tasks are simple and repetitive or complex and varied. Just because they are the best practitioner or technical specialist does not automatically qualify or prepare them to become the most effective manager! Management training can equip new and experienced managers with the knowledge, attitudes, skills and confidence to be good manager’s which when coupled with their experience and an open minded approach to lifetime learning can develop them into the highly effective managers that we all aspire to be lead by.
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