Intel is rolling out required management training because they recognize that their management staff are not good managers, didn't have management training and have lost the foundational management skills necessary to manage employees and maintain Intel as a great place to work. However, Intel is also using ACT and redeployment as a way to reduce headcount. The end result is that good managers can be eliminated because their role /project / department is being eliminated (redeployment). Good managers can be eliminated because they meet ACT criteria due to their age and years of service or because they didn't advance (up or out philosophy). Sadly when eliminating people based on their role and/or retirement eligibility it is resulting in the loss of good managers. Why not take a skills based approach to the elimination/reduction efforts so that you can retain those who have exceptional manager skills? What a novel thought.....
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"I assume that the objective of manager trainings does not match at all what people think it should be."
The objective of management training is to be able to say that all managers have been trained.
It's not clear whether BK's fab lizard brain understands the extent to which Intel (and management) culture at Intel are toxic and broken or the inadequacy of the training in actually addressing the issues.
I assume that the objective of manager trainings does not match at all what people think it should be.
All the screamers should go start your own company. Enjoy
If you don't like free ice cream bar once in a while from BK and the Swan, you should also consider to leaving.
It's simple.. nothing will change the culture at Intel.. it's more and more toxic as years go by...
The only solution is tolerate it or leave.
It's fairly simple.
+1
And, in every group in which I've been at least, it never seemed like people were rewarded for being good managers.
Screamers, brown-nosers, cronies, lying sacks of shirt, micromanagers, powerpoint and spreadsheet masters and all sorts of people who wouldn't be tolerated elsewhere never seemed to get in trouble, even with high turnover, blown deadlines and other bad outcomes.
That's the state of Intel and a class or two ain't gonna fix it.
It's who you know and not what you do.
"The good managers tend to get out maneuvered by their more politically focused peers. While good managers are having 1:1s with their teams and making sure the team is developed and delivering, other managers are brown nosing with upper management and attending meetings for the sake of appearances."
It doesn't matter. The business will still run well !
OP skill is not the main problem for Intel managers. A good number of Intel managers only care about their own. Intel, employee are not something they care about. All these political games, dishonest focal are the result of it.
Many Intel managers and employees lack the patience for your idea. They act out of haste which leads to waste..
Wasted resources..wasted opportunities and so on... It's part of the paradox of being in a company that was very successful in the 90s, somewhat successful in the 2000's and so far quite mediocre in the 10's