Management Trainee Gifts

'If you can control your emotions I will make you a branch manager. Yippee.'

One day,dad,all this will be yours.

"It's quite obvious that you're not a team player."

'Right, we break now for lunch...see you back here in three and a half hours.'

'Let's get this straight - to agree to elect a working party to investigate the feasibility of forming a sub-committee which was formed to make a decision about the method of forming committees during the course...'

"What happened to Scott, the new management trainee? Wasn't Mr. Rod teaching him everything about the business?"

"Everybody, this is Scott...my management trainee."

"New management trainee."

"Don't get your hopes up, Filby."

'What amazes me most is that years ago I couldn't even spell teacher - now I are one!'

'Believe me, I know transformation isn't easy. I pulled a muscle once.'

"I hope you don't mind - I'm training a brand-new assistant and I've asked her to check your blood pressure."

'Oh don't mind him - he's just a great big teddy bear.'

"You've all been working very hard lately, and you deserve some time off. I'm giving you all a two-day membership to time-off.com."

“Just one question...how on earth do I get down?!?”

"If you do well in your first practicum, you can move on to teaching real children."

'Remember, son, don't believe any thing you hear and only half of what you see.'

"Ben, forget... what... I'd said about... plastics!"

Great coaching is about being specific with feedback.

"We won again, and guess what? A Russian oligarch wants to buy us!"

'I was a junior doctor when I started this shift.'

"For today's lesson, you're going to teach me about pronouns."

"While your lesson plans were perfect, and your bulletin boards were terrific...your classroom management skills need work!"

'The secret to staying in business, Wilson, is making something that's needed. Profit!'

Manager reading The Little Trainee That Could: 'I think I can, I think I can...'

'Excess is the way I measure success.'

'Taking the anger management class has made you uncharacteristically nice, sir.'

'No, Johnny - first you punch the airholes, and then you put in the hamster!'

'Having done the mentoring skills questionnaire I think I need a mentor to mentor me in improving my mentoring.'

"When the report said that coaches should have some psychological training I think they meant more than having watched all 11 series of Frasier."

Dynamic Decision Makers: Will Probably Be back in an Hour or so

'Virtual patient.'

STRIP Hambone: Training wheels on a computer

"Son, politics like pool is a game of divide and conquer."

"I still call it a custard tart but to be honest, it's a dairy free, soy fructose mix, with no nuts."