This cast concludes our series on how you can approach your manager in order to get training budget.

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This cast describes how you can approach your manager in order to get training budget.

It can be incredibly frustrating to be an individual contributor and KNOW you could do more if only you had the training. Or perhaps you're someone who works really hard, your career is very important to you, and you'd like to be rewarded with training budget the company says it doesn't have. Or you see people in other teams going on 'jollys' and no matter how many times you ask, you never get to go. Or you REALLY want to go to a Manager Tools conference and your manager will just not agree ☹

This is one of those casts where we can tell you the best way to approach the situation, but we can't guarantee the outcome. BUT, approaching the situation in the best way will raise your esteem in your manager's eyes and will increase your chances of getting budget in the future.

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One of the greatest parts of being a manager is coaching your directs ... even if, we'd guess, you don't do it nearly often enough. But you know if you're one of our thousands of regular listeners that with the coaching model, we recommend you coach every member of your team ALWAYS. The reason we recommend this is that most managers think that coaching means TRAINING, which it doesn't. For the hundredth time: any manager, with the Manager Tools Coaching Model, can coach ALL of their directs at ALL times, for the most part DURING their weekly One on Ones. [If this intrigues you listen to the Coaching Casts, starting here.]

Okay, but what about when you really do need to be the trainer? What about when you come up with a list of resources for when one of your team has to present to senior execs, or when one needs to learn how to run a meeting, or even overcome an objection in a sales call... and you, the manager, really are the most obvious and best resource?

Easy: you become the Trainer. It's not common - it ought to be somewhat rare, to be honest. [There's always someone else to ask to help!] But when you ARE the Trainer, how do you do it?

Four Steps, described in detail in this Cast: How to Do Simple Training.

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