Manager Trainee Pillows

'After lunch is, 'The Art of Looking Busy'.'

'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."

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

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

Great coaching is about being specific with feedback.

'The customers' suggestions make a lot of sense. I say, let's hire the customers and fire the staff!'

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

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

Orthopedics. Pediatrics. Stuff they never taught your in nursing school.

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

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

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

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

"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

'Virtual patient.'

STRIP Hambone: Training wheels on a computer

"It's not for soaking your feet. . . it's a bed pan."

"How am I supposed to know what I want to complain about before you've even said anything?"

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

'He still hasn't got the hang of it.'

"Oh, don't worry. Typical beginner's mistake."

Survey says there are still a quarter of trainee GPs to stay in full-time clinical work

'Yeah, I've got the new guy working on table wines. He seems to be getting the hang of it.'

"I know you're new to the job, Ms. Jones, but the correct term is 'stat'... not 'move your ass'!"

"Nothing beats the thrill of operating beyond one's competence."

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

He's working his way up to lions!

'Or there's a budget treatment with one of our trainees...'

'Our clientele is middle class; you know, your average Joe-750ml.'

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