TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT


Welcome! This list of quotes is part of the Management & Leadership Quotes series of the Bigroads.com website.

Author/Contributor: Greg Parsons



Always accept the chance to make a training presentation in your company. No matter what your job is you can improve your company by teaching others what you do (and what your staff does), why you do it, how you do it, and anything connected with your responsibility.

- Jeffrey Fox

The best students are those who never quite believe their professors.

- Jim Collins

It is the improvement and the pursuit of improvement combined with proof of improvement that makes anything fun.

- Fred Lee

I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.

- Robert T Kiyosaki

When onboarding people, tell staff it will be a lot easier for them to do well in their role if we give them crystal clear feedback along the way.

- Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson

In my experience, companies with excellent service reputations are constantly training and developing every employee from day one until day of departure.

- Lee Cockerell

If you have demonstrated a task more than three times and the trainee is unable to learn the task, consider breaking the task down even further. If this cannot be done, or has already been done, it is likely that your trainee is not suited for the job.

- Cy Charney

The more you learn about a thing the more enthusiastic you will get about it.

- David J. Schwartz

There is nothing I find more exciting than picking a question that I don’t know the answer to and embarking on a quest for answers.

- Jim Collins

If you want a competitive edge, read, read, and read some more.

- Lee Cockerell

It's no coincidence that most successful people have a library in their home.

- unknown

In the right atmosphere of teamwork, coaching, and learning, constant improvement is fun-just as improving one’s athletic skills can be more exhilarating than actual competition.

- Fred Lee

New experiences can be more important to a career in the long run than added compensation.

- Lee Cockerell

Never stop trying to become qualified for your job.

- Jim Collins

Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.

- Robert T Kiyosaki

Whenever you come across a golden nugget of truth or a significant quote, file it away for the future.

- John Maxwell

When I realized the importance of copycatting, I trained myself to observe carefully and make notes about everything I saw that might improve my personal or business life. To this day, when I got to a hotel, a restaurant, a bank, an airport, a doctor’s office, a shopping mall, or anywhere else, I file away things I see, then think about how I can implement them in my life or relate them to my audiences when I give speeches.

- Lee Cockerell

Don’t restrict your focus to hard skills. The higher you rise in an organization, the more important the key soft skills of culture and political diagnosis, negotiation, coalition building, and conflict management will become.

- Michael Watkins

Spend at least 60% of your time developing people so that they can take care of business for you.

- Cy Charney

Learn the importance of spending time around people who have something to teach.

- Lee Cockerell

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

- Benjamin Franklin


Research shows that most people need to be exposed to something three times before they develop a solid understanding or grasp of it.

- unknown

Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guest what? All you have to do is go to the library.

- Henri Frederic Amiel