A theme that comes up regularly in our discussions, is how to train managers, when they don’t THINK they need the training.

If you’ve been in L&D for any length of time, I’m sure you’ve come across it: We need our front-line staff/first-line managers to get all this training, and when you roll it out, the people on the courses say “My manager could do with this too!”

But being a trainer sometimes requires diplomatic skills as well as design and facilitation skills.

Here I share 5 ways that you can train those manager of managers by stealth.