I have to confess, I’ve never been a big fan of e-learning  . I’m an old trainer who prefers people. When the economy took a nose dive I, too, was sent to the island of tele-training and it’s just not the same. Unfortunately, with the rising costs of travel, an unstable economy and the sheer practicality of web-based training, sometimes it doesn’t make sense not to choose e-learning. But even if you have the rare luxury of choosing one method over another, how do you decide what to do?

Who’s Your Audience?

Over the years I have been fortunate enough to work with and for some really great managers. As a trainer, I've taught classes where, for most of the participants, management was second nature. It's what they loved to do and their employees thought they were very good at it. But where there's a ying, there's a yang.

I've heard countless stories of managers who treat their employees like second rate citizens, who suffer from inferiority complexes or are just simply idiots. Research shows that poor managers are the second highest reason people leave companies. The first reason is because employees feel they are at a dead-end job with no place to go. And the cost to replace employees is very high.

So what's your story? Have you had bad experiences with managers? What happened? If you could say anything you wanted to say to your manager, what would you say?