I personally believe a manager should like people, you can not teach people that, it is something from within.
If you don’t like people why manage?
I have worked with all types of manager ones of a lower ranking, at the same level, and senior.
I know a lot of managers that don’t like people, but enjoy having the power over them.
So ok you can teach people the job in hand, to pass on to teach others and make sure the job is getting done, but you can’t teach them to manage people.
I am christened but do not have any of my children christened.
I choose to send them all to a church school and spoke to the school before my children went and was honest about the fact that none of my children had been.
The school in question taught all religions and philosophy although was a Church of England school.
I wanted them to get a broad idea of all religions and to keep an open mind
My 17 year old says he does not believe in god, and if had to be made to choose a religion it would be Buddhism.
My 12 year old son said don’t you know about the big bang theory.
My 12 year old daughter wants to believe in something.
But all believe possibly that Jesus existed.
They have asked why they are not christened and we have said the choice is yours if you want to be, none have asked to be as yet.
Just picking up from another thread, something just caused me to ask this question
Can we be taught to manage people?
I was always under the impression that these skills would come naturally.
I have managed people but I have never been taught how to.
I have been taught the job in hand as to pass on my knowledge, I would have thought that is different than being taught to manage.
So can we be taught to do something that doesn’t come naturally?
My 12 year old daughter Came home from school the other evening very upset and confused, I knew the minute she walked through the door.
I sat her down and asked what the problem was, she said she had just seen a mother shout and hit her child who was no older than 3 and in a buggy and swore at the child. After calming her anger down, I got the change to question her about the odd times I have smacked her and it must be the same.
She said Mum when you smacked me it was because I was pushing you, I felt you couldn’t tell me what to do, or make me do something I didn’t want to do. When you asked me to do sometime and I didn’t want to do I felt there was nothing you could do to make me. She said she felt what was the worse that could happen I could have been grounded so what, you could have taken something away, I knew I would get it back so was not bothered. I knew you couldn’t smack me I could phone child line or tell a teacher. So there was nothing I thought that you could do to make me. So I asked her why after I smacked her did she feel different, she said because she saw how upset it made me, she didn’t like seeing me upset, and the feeling she had then was different than seeing me angry.
These are the words out of my 12 year old daughter’s lips.
I wrote a thread about smacking my children some time ago, and just thought I would let you know an update.
I will still stand by my first stance and say sometimes a smack does not hurt.
I wanted to bump this back as time has moved on after first asking the question.
I believe he was slow in reacting but what he is doing now in the financial sense are the best moves for the long term future of this country.
What has happened was always going to happen it was only a matter of time before the bubble burst.
It is and is still going to be a hard bumpy ride but I still feel Brown is the best man for the job in hand to get us out of this recession.
Just talking to people in normal life and on here, what has baffled me is that a lot of men I talk to, (not all) although not particularly agreeing with all she done and not a supported of the party, seem to have a lot of respect for Margret Thatcher.
This has baffled me, as myself and my female friends can not understand why.
It seems more men seem to respect her than woman do, or is this just my own observations which I could be wrong as is often the case.
Or if it is true lead me to another thought that would we be happier working for a someone of the opposite sex?
I think myself personally I would rather work for a man than a woman likewise I would rather lead a team of men than women.
Could this be we are more cynical of the same sex?
I don't know, I am a bit confused about my own feelings about how I feel.
Do others have similar views, or is it just me.
I wonder if others could help me see if this is the case and why.
