Manager In Training Gifts

'One day you'll be able to 'sack' a football manager.'

Big Sam

"I’ve combined all your outstanding debt into what we here in the banking business like to call a honkin’ big loan."

"You've proven your worth a hundred times over. Let's try for a thousand."

The Department of Blind-Side Bias, Knowledge Gaps and Really Great Coffee.

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

'When will I be old enough to have my own people?'

"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."

"There's always a period of adjustment whenever you hire a new crew."

'What a bunch of control freaks!'

Martin Luther King and Obama.

STRIP *Community Care * Squeezing it all in before lunch

Great coaching is about being specific with feedback.

"We'll start with some 'ice breakers' and 'team building' games..."

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

Dolphin tricks.

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

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

PE teacher teaching football tactics. Boy sat in corner with dunce cap.

"… and once you've finished advanced infantry training, you'll be assigned to film school."

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

'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

"The Sales Department suggests we teach Customer Service personnel how to assist customers without telling them where to go."

"For cryin' out loud, are you signing up or not?"

"It's from our 'Time Management' trainer. He's double booked and can't come!"

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

Delegation - "Miss Brown come in and read me this book."

"We find putting the customer first works for us!"

'Dean, for you, the stress management seminar is not, I repeat, not optional.'

'I'm going to be a lot more decisive from now on. Well... maybe not a lot more, but at least a little more.'

"I'v never actually stormed a castle, but I've taken a bunch of siege-management courses."

"Says. . . some signals are monitored by my supervisor for training and quality purposes. . .??"

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