Gerard M Blair describes how this can be achieved through delegation. One of the major problems in devising management training courses is in helping the participants to apply what they have learnt when they return to the work place. The key to effective training is to make that training part of the daily routine rather than merely the activity of an isolated workshop, and this can only be achieved by delegating that training to the manager. To achieve this, the focus of the training activity must be altered.
Most organisations are full of surprised managers.
These are the people who are suddenly promoted because they were good at what they did, and given responsibility for projects and people which they do not understand. Put simply, things normally go wrong not because the new managers are stupid but only because they have never thought about managing before. The way forward is to raise the issues, to provide suggestons and, more importantly, to get the managers to evaluate solutions in the context of their own work. Ultimately, they are the ones who will have to cope in the real situations and once they have recognized that the problems exist, they will be able to apply their own common sense. Management is a skill - and like any other skill it comes with experience and practice.