40 Quotes For Management Training

When navigating the intricate landscape of management, effective training becomes an indispensable tool for success. Whether you're an aspiring manager or a seasoned leader, the right guidance can elevate your skills and pave the way for better team dynamics and organizational growth. Quotes from renowned leaders and management experts provide succinct and powerful insights, distilling complex concepts into memorable lessons. In this collection, we've gathered 40 impactful quotes that will inspire, challenge, and guide you on your journey to becoming an exemplary manager. Let these words of wisdom serve as a beacon, helping you to foster a culture of leadership and efficiency within your team.

1. “A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.” - Stan Slap

2. “What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.” - Stan Slap

3. “Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.” - Stan Slap

4. “A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable to have a price tag. And yet a company can’t afford not to have it.” - Stan Slap

5. “Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.” - Stan Slap

6. “The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.” - Stan Slap

7. “Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.” - Stan Slap

8. “Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.” - Stan Slap

9. “When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.” - Stan Slap

10. “Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.” - Stan Slap

11. “Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.” - Stan Slap

12. “The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.” - Stan Slap

13. “You can’t sell it outside if you can’t sell it inside.” - Stan Slap

14. “Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.” - Stan Slap

15. “The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.” - Stan Slap

16. “Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.” - Stan Slap

17. “There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.” - Stan Slap

18. “The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?” - Stan Slap

19. “Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.” - Stan Slap

20. “Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.” - Stan Slap

21. “Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.” - Stan Slap

22. “Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?” - Stan Slap

23. “The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.” - Stan Slap

24. “Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.” - Stan Slap

25. “The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.” - Stan Slap

26. “To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.” - Stan Slap

27. “Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.” - Stan Slap

28. “Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.” - Stan Slap

29. “Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.” - Stan Slap

30. “Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.” - Stan Slap

31. “Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.” - Stan Slap

32. “Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.” - Stan Slap

33. “When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.” - Stan Slap

34. “When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.” - Stan Slap

35. “True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.” - Stan Slap

36. “Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.” - Stan Slap

37. “Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.” - Stan Slap

38. “This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.” - Stan Slap

39. “What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.” - Stan Slap

40. “It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.” - Stan Slap