News: Performance Management
Successful leaders' lives can build on management training
30 January 2009
Examining the lives of successful leaders could be a means of building on management training, an expert asserts.
David Chittock, president of Incentra, writes on Sales and Marketing Management that aspiring executives should look to autobiographies for inspiration.
He suggests these can teach effective lessons in creative and outside-the-box thinking, as well as a range of management styles, personal strengths and perseverance.
Advising William Manchester's The Last Lion as a good place for those looking to build on their leadership training, Mr Chittock says the life of Winston Churchill is educational in almost every way.
He recommends: "As a manager, study Churchill’s organizational skills - reports to him during the War had to be printed on one page - his hiring practices, of 'live wires and not conventional types', and his communication skills."
Keith Pathing, former director of the Cranfield School of Management, recently emphasised the importance of self analysis in leadership training, TrainingZone.co.uk reports.
