Leadership Training Courses Don't Work

BRADFORD ON AVON, England, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- You may think this is an odd claim, given that it is made by Think Training & Development Limited, a company that specialises in Leadership Training (http://www.thinktd.co.uk/leadership-programmes.html) but picture the scene...

Your company is not doing as well as it could. Your people need some direction; some motivation. And you're the person to deliver it. If only you knew how.

You need some help, so you book yourself on to an expensive Leadership Training (http://www.thinktd.co.uk/leadership-programmes.html ) Course.

You enter the second rate hotel where the event is being held and a name sticker is slapped on to your lapel. You check out who else is on the course but there is no-one from your particular industry. You're given a big, shiny manual that is mostly full of blank pages for you to make notes, although, to be fair, it's peppered periodically with mysterious acronyms to help you remember how to be a captain of industry.

Then, best of all, you get to learn how to lead from the front from a guy who has never been out of the classroom long enough to know where the front is. You spend the rest of the day pondering the potential risks of death by PowerPoint and the journey home removing bits of glue from your suit where your name sticker has been.  

You return to work to find your sales figures are down, your marketing team has gone AWOL and Sally from accounts is in your office, crying because her husband has left her.

You hurriedly leaf through your new manual to help you, but all you can see are unfathomable graphs and the Christmas shopping list you wrote while one of the other delegates was asking an interminably long and irrelevant question…  

It may not surprise you to learn that Think Training & Development (http://www.thinktd.co.uk ) does not run open, generic Leadership Training (http://www.thinktd.co.uk/leadership-programmes.html ) courses. Their trainers do not deal in 'ideal world' theory, nor do they issue glossy manuals that are destined to gather dust on your office shelf.

Think comes to you. You do not go to them. They might not be the most conventional of corporate trainers, but they'll immerse themselves in your world to understand your particular company's challenges. Their Leadership Training is practical, energising and tailored to your people. And they get results.

In short – they're a bit like the A-Team… except they don't carry guns and they do accept payment.

If you think you could use their help, you'll find them at http://www.thinktd.co.uk/blog/2010/02/leadership-training

About Think Training & Development

Think Training & Development was founded in 2003, by Wendie Michie and Gavin Aubrey. They have had the good fortune to coach and train thousands of people in more than 10 countries across 4 continents.

SOURCE Think Training & Development