Learning & Development - It's a Funny Business!

• Success comes in cans
• Dress code working-style indicators: jacket on = directing; jacket off = participating; trousers off = performing
• To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the project manager, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
• If a=1%, b=2%, c= 3%, etc., what does 'attitude' add up to? ........ (work it out - the answer is 100%)
• 'Mushroom Management' - the practice of keeping people in the dark, and every now and then dumping a load of dirt on them
• 'Wheelbarrow Management' or 'Wheelbarrow Culture' - people only work when pushed, and are easily upset (as described by certain managers, who probably have only themselves to blame)
• Tell'em what you're gonna tell'em, tell'em, tell'em what you told'em. (Training and presentations mnemonic for effective presentation or speaking structure, in other words: introduction, content points, summary.)
• When you ASSUME you make an ASS out of U and Me
• There is no I in TEAM (but if you look carefully there is a ME...)
• "Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them" (from TV's David Brent of The Office)
• Don't sell the steak, sell the sizzle. (Or more fashionably today: Sell the crunch not the apple)
• The buyer buys the seller not the salt. (A maxim for selling and sales training)
• Everyone gets butterflies - the trick is getting them to fly in formation

• Can you think outside of the box if you work in a shoe store?
• If you work for NASA can you really say it's not rocket science?
• If you have an office on the 22nd floor can you ever really have your ear to the ground?