There’s an entire industry centered around teaching management to be better leaders. Your boss (or your boss’s boss) may have gone to one. If these seminars work, then why are there still terrible managers? Also, why do employees still feel like their managers aren’t taking care of things?
Here’s Five Fast Facts About Management Seminars:
- 💰 Big Bucks - Leadership seminars bring in a lot of cash. In 2015, they earned $160B in the US alone. You think that’s crazy? Worldwide they brought in $356B in 2015. Maybe you’re in the wrong business. (Plz don’t impulse-buy one of those microphone headset things.)
- 🧑💼 Different Animals - These classes tend to preach a blanket approach to an organization, but the problem is that one size does not fit all when it comes to your workforce. No two people have the same needs from their leaders.
- 🎇 Not You - Another inconvenient truth: not everyone is cut out to be a leader. So, sending them to one afternoon seminar with “Y’all Ready For This” as its opening theme isn’t going to help change that. It takes much more to be a leader. (Is that song stuck in your head now? Sorry not sorry.)
- 👔 Bandaid - Studies show that when leaders come away from these seminars, anything they’ve learned is put into practice and then quickly abandoned and forgotten. Things go back to how they were before the course and everyone’s miserable again.
- 🕶️ Blinders - There’s also a demonstrated lack of follow-up from senior leadership. After all, they invested money in the course, surely that manager is performing at a higher level now, right?
🔥Bottom line: “Scam” may be too harsh of a word, but these things rarely work, and that means money has been wasted. but we’re now in a reality that individual change is driven by individual attention rather than casting a wide net and thinking it works for everyone. In the wake of the great resignation, you’d think corporate America would know better by now.
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