Training management
The function of Trainee Management is recognised by most businesses as an important part of the process of binding the most potentially talented staff as closely as possible to the ethos of the firm.
Schemes for delivering this are intended to provide long term benefits for organisations and help them effectively place successors into key management posts as they become available.
How does this compare to the glossy TV “training” of potential high flyers in the business world, such as those featured in popular television series, who are marketed as being the cream of the crop? One can only wonder how far these potential candidates would handle real life situations rather than the entertaining exercises contrived for television audiences.
Schemes operated by the big retailers are likely to be consistent in their attempts to deliver well qualified graduates, who can recognise and handle the broad diversity of business, to the front line of busy local shops and superstores.
A sound management training programme will ensure that participants have at least walked the aisles, replenished stock and removed the cardboard boxes, as well as arranged staff rotas for bank holidays and sickness cover. They should also have taken deliveries, sat on checkouts and dealt with difficult customers.
The most successful candidates for the role are likely to be practical-minded individuals who are not afraid of hard work and who can tackle routine issues with efficient, creative thinking.
Participants in the reality TV business world are drawn from a range of backgrounds, although there is perhaps a fine line between high ambition and unrealistic self belief in their abilities.
Television fame might seem glamorous, but the potential business men and women groomed on the reality TV circuit with the promise of bright futures may well find that their path to success is short lived.
Little can better a sound trainee management programme with an established business in terms of quality and longer term career prospects.
