How do you become a manager?

[suityou01]

Now think about this. Mitch the tester posted on hear a few days ago about modern management, and in that thread the view point appeared to me that the modern workplace has changed muchly, workers at the bottom of the foodchain are becoming more and more skilled, and hence more difficult to manage. That said, the highly skilled savant-like programming proletariat could not muster the people skills to climb the greasy pole leaving a vacuous gap filled by those less skilled technically and with better people skills.

So this set me thinking. My experience of modern management is that they do not think things through properly, are slapdash and dump on the skilled workforce in a very Dilbert kind of way. Is it possible to have a manager that has come up through the ranks, progressed upwards through natural means, not just landed a managerial role because they have a 2-1 in Business systems from Hatfield Poly and play golf with the chief exec?

[BrilloPad]

Can you talk bollux? Have you no common sense? Are you rude and abusive?

If yes to all those then you are perfect.

[suityou01]

Can you talk bollux? Have you no common sense? Are you rude and abusive?

If yes to all those then you are perfect.

Not really, that's the problem. Does anyone know of any good training courses I can go on to get certified in these skills? Or perhaps I should just hang out on the golf course and try and soak it up?

[DimPrawn]

Can you talk bollux? Have you no common sense? Are you rude and abusive?

If yes to all those then you are perfect.

sasguru is a manager.

[Ruprect]

Can you talk bollux? Have you no common sense? Are you rude and abusive?

If yes to all those then you are perfect.

This isn't the small ads BP

[thelace]

Most of the Management I've come across use Dilbert as a training manual!

There are many traits required to be a decent manager. Unfortunately, none of these are taught in schools/colleges/universities these days...

[gingerjedi]

Is it possible to have a manager that has come up through the ranks, progressed upwards through natural means, not just landed a managerial role because they have a 2-1 in Business systems from Hatfield Poly and play golf with the chief exec?

Is it possible to hang around long enough and not be given the poisoned chalice of a managerial role?

[msubhan]

I was one a technically 'talented' resource that made it up the greasy management pole...The problem was that while I was good at the management side (reporting to the IT Director of a large 5000+ resource organisation who was willing to coach me) I just got really fed up with the politics.
You've basically got to be an absolute bastard to get to Exec level and above and I'm not like that.......so I turned to contracting instead!

[Fred Bloggs]

How do you become a manager?

A radical lobotomy is usually the first small step towards management I find.

[Bagpuss]

I bought Football Manager

HTH