How to Gain Managers Supports for Staff Training and Development

Many factors influence the effectiveness and success of trainings. Among them factors including paying attention the real needs of human forces, active participation of staff in workshops, transparency of goals and contents of programs, motivating staff in order to participate in the trainings, and suitable methods for training and … are emphasized. But a very important object that is always ignored is the role and responsibility of managers in success and applying the outcomes of educational programs.
Apparently it is expected that people should apply the outcomes after taking part in programs but in reality putting this expectation into action needs to provide an environment that makes it possible to apply those outcomes. Such an environment commonly should be provided by managers but often it is ignored.
The results of research findings show that several causes rise as serious obstacles including not being serious on trainings by managers, contradictions between current duties and activities and subjects taught at educational programs, dependence of outcome application to necessary resources such as enough time, money, power, energy and … which mostly should be spend on current affairs.