This article is one of the series aimed at people who are responsible for training, but are not career training specialists and it concentrates on management development and training. Just as John Wellens' first article looked at where to start and how to define the overall company need, this is...

This article follows the one in the October issue in which I described a simple but effective method of defining management training needs. Just as that article attacked the popular assumption that the greatest needs are for management techniques, this one will challenge the view that courses...

If line managers coached their subordinates all management trainers would be looking for other jobs, all, that is apart from a few specialists in techniques. A chastening thought but a possibility that it is not likely to worry us for some years to come. There is no doubt, however, that coaching...