Thank you for sharing this, Peter. My old organization brought Hauser’s and Green’s group — The Management Center — in for a training session in 2019. It was excellent. TMC also has plenty of free resources on its website, for those who are interested. I’ll check out the book this winter.
Will be interested to see if Training for Good (which sounds very promising) also adopts any of TMC’s free resources. TFG looks like it’s mainly focused on EMEA audiences and time zones, while I’m not sure if TMC is well-known outside North America. There may be potential for valuable cross-pollination of best practices, etc.
FWIW my personal opinion having both taken the course and read the book is that reading the book is much more valuable (and much less expensive) than taking the course. I think this is also the opinion of other people I know who have done both, but I’m not sure.
I know this question wasn’t directed at me, but my impression was that we had a lot of people do the training and many also read the book, and most came away thinking that the training was not worth the time / covered a lot of the material in the book but in a less useful format.
That being said, I think it’s possible that having all managers just being in a situation where they sit and think about good management practices for 3 days can be really helpful, even if the feeling of being there is negative / the training itself is bad, and I wouldn’t be surprised if having a large number of people go through the training improved management at RP overall.
Thanks Jared for thinking about TFG! We will make use of existing resources as much as possible. Never heard of this but just got the book .
Our focus on EMEA is temporary and dependent on the kind of programs. E.g. our program for policy makers is aimed at EMEA because of substantial differences with the US market
Good luck in the final months of 2021 and the new year—and if/when you expand to the Americas, feel free to drop me a line. Would be happy to chat and share any resources that may be helpful.
Thank you for sharing this, Peter. My old organization brought Hauser’s and Green’s group — The Management Center — in for a training session in 2019. It was excellent. TMC also has plenty of free resources on its website, for those who are interested. I’ll check out the book this winter.
Will be interested to see if Training for Good (which sounds very promising) also adopts any of TMC’s free resources. TFG looks like it’s mainly focused on EMEA audiences and time zones, while I’m not sure if TMC is well-known outside North America. There may be potential for valuable cross-pollination of best practices, etc.
FWIW my personal opinion having both taken the course and read the book is that reading the book is much more valuable (and much less expensive) than taking the course. I think this is also the opinion of other people I know who have done both, but I’m not sure.
Would you recommend the training, or do you think it’s not worth the time (ignoring monetary cost)?
(And thanks so much for writing this post!)
I know this question wasn’t directed at me, but my impression was that we had a lot of people do the training and many also read the book, and most came away thinking that the training was not worth the time / covered a lot of the material in the book but in a less useful format.
That being said, I think it’s possible that having all managers just being in a situation where they sit and think about good management practices for 3 days can be really helpful, even if the feeling of being there is negative / the training itself is bad, and I wouldn’t be surprised if having a large number of people go through the training improved management at RP overall.
The question was directed at me but I will approve of this as my answer.
(Makes sense given that Abraham is the COO at the organization where I’m Co-CEO and we’ve talked a lot about this.)
Sorry to callously steal your thunder Peter!
Makes sense; thanks very much both!
Thanks Jared for thinking about TFG! We will make use of existing resources as much as possible. Never heard of this but just got the book .
Our focus on EMEA is temporary and dependent on the kind of programs. E.g. our program for policy makers is aimed at EMEA because of substantial differences with the US market
Congratulations on the launch, Jan-Willem!
Good luck in the final months of 2021 and the new year—and if/when you expand to the Americas, feel free to drop me a line. Would be happy to chat and share any resources that may be helpful.