Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Some companies let that development happen organically – otherwise known as “on the job training” That was the situation I was in back in 1987, when I was thrown head first into the leadership pool at age 27, as the new COO of a cable TV company. But outside training also has some big drawbacks.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 10, 2011

Somewhere, in a galaxy far, far away, I had a rare chance to chat with Yoda, who, it can now be revealed, has been one of my favorite Social Media mentors. It’s a little known fact that in addition to his important duties as a Jedi Master, Yoda has been behind the scenes training many of us in the ways of Social Media.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

And therein lies what I consider the missing link in building a perfect team – the proper training of these supervisors. More specifically, the leadership training. Delivering such training can be expensive, because this is typically the largest management group in most organizations. And it hasn’t been easy.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 26, 2015

I always thought it was strange how great leadership was always thought to be vitally important to a businesses success, but yet it was quite often the least discussed thing in the meeting rooms, and the budget money allocated to “leadership training” was always limited (or the first thing to get cut back). Why is this the case?

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

Andy Hayes April 19, 2010 at 3:08 pm Reminds me of something a mentor told me one time. We have a high turnover rate at our company and I wonder if having more training around what type of people to hire would help? The personality of a good manager can be very different from the skills of a good IT person. Right people = success.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Bret Anita Bruzzese November 2, 2009 at 12:27 pm Terry, Resources are scarce these days, and that includes putting the time and money into training new managers. Concept being that you have these highly trained employees with subject matter expertise. Concur with your perspective. Keep up the great work! SURESHKUMAR.S

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2017

A professionally trained slicer and dicer without much thought or feeling. It would have been great to have a mentor and a teacher back then ”, I thought. I had to take a hard line position, to save face. “ Hey , you wouldn’t change it, and we HAVE to hit that number, so I did it”. I didn’t have their backs – I was protecting my own.

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